WordPress Admin Password Reset Script

July 30th, 2008

There’s a useful script that you can use to reset your WordPress admin password if you have forgotten it and the “normal” password recovery methods – e.g. using the “Lost your password?” link on the login page – don’t seem to work. It’s a standalone script (not a plugin) and doesn’t require you to be [...]

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Last.fm Global Hotkeys

July 27th, 2008

Last.fm does not have out-of-the-box support for global hotkeys, so I created a simple tool that will let you control the Last.fm for Windows app through global hotkeys. Download it here.

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How To Change Your Admin Username In WordPress

July 24th, 2008

A small WordPress plugin that will let you easily edit your username from within WordPress. Useful if you want to change it to something other than admin. The plugin is compatible with any version of WordPress from 2.0 to 2.6.

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How To : Opera Password Recovery

July 23rd, 2008

How to recover or export cached passwords from the Opera Wand password manager. While the Wand does not have a built-in recovery function you can use free third-party tools or simple JS hacks to restore Wand passwords.

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Programmer Rap

July 21st, 2008

Here’s something funny I found today :
pic div fade in slow
shadow current menu show
find content replace all span
div append to table row
Shamelessly stolen from this Russian site.
Okay, so it’s not syntactically correct I’m sure you can still reconstruct the original JavaScript if need be.

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I Hate Links

July 19th, 2008

Yes, I’m talking about backlinks, the spawn of evil. Everybody craves them, craves the promise of power, wealth and getting laid that links offer. And this craving is both abhorrent to and blessed by the mischievous higher powers, a dangerous path leading into the darkness. Outrageous!
Here’s further proof that links are the cause of suffering [...]

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Convert Anything To ISO

July 19th, 2008

A list of free tools and tutorials that will let you convert your disk image files from various proprietary formats (e.g. MDF, NRG, DMG and so on) to the universally supported ISO format.

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Yay, WordPress 2.6 Is Out

July 15th, 2008

I’m sure you know why I write this. A new version of WordPress is out, and I’ve upgraded this blog immediately. So here are the mandatory first impressions (nope, I don’t use SVN betas). Just conforming with the unquestionable avalanche of review-style posts that have appeared, with more no doubt being written right now.
Right after [...]

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Safer Cookies Plugin For WordPress

July 12th, 2008

As you might know, when you log in to a WordPress blog a session cookie is created that serves as a kind of authentication “key”. This is what lets you stay logged in and access various areas of the dashboard without having to enter your password every time. However, if a hacker was to get [...]

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WP Plugin : Sort Admin Menus

July 9th, 2008

A simple WordPress plugin that sorts the items in Settings, Plugins and Manage dashboard menus in A-Z order.

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How To Get Redirect URL In PHP

July 5th, 2008

HTTP redirects usually have the response status 301 or 302 and provide the redirection URL in the “Location” header. I’ve written three complementary PHP functions that you can use to find out where an URL redirects to (based on a helpful thread at WebmasterWorld). You don’t even need CURL for this – fsockopen() will do [...]

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ImageShack Torrent Hack : Get Download Resuming In a Roundabout Way

July 4th, 2008

ImageShack torrent service does not support download resuming for the HTTP download links. However, there is a way to work around that if you are tech-savvy…

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