TOR : How To Switch To a New Identity Using PHP

June 20th, 2008

A simple PHP function that can make TOR switch to a new identity. The script also supports TOR authentication.

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How To Add User Agent Switch To “Quick Preferences” In Opera 9.5

June 15th, 2008

A short guide that describes how to add the Identify as Opera/IE/Firefox user agent options to the Quick Preferences popup menu. This method works in Opera 9.5 and, hopefully, later versions.

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Improved Thread Simulation Class for PHP

May 24th, 2008

Two classes that use asynchronous HTTP POST requests to simulate multithreading (works on Windows, too!). The Thread class simulates a single thread of execution, whereas ThreadManager is an utility class that makes handling multiple threads easier.

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Building a DeviantArt Recommendation Engine

April 29th, 2008

DeviantArt, with its huge number of artworks and a large userbase, is just the kind of site that could use a good recommendation engine. A recommendation engine is basically a program that analyzes your tastes and recommends some images that you might like. There do not seem to be any official plans to create a recommendation system. So I went ahead and started building my own recommendation engine for DA.

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Simple Text Summarizer In PHP

April 12th, 2008

I’ve written a simple text summarizer that can find the most important sentences in any given (English) text and produce a summary of the specified length. It would be pretty easy to adapt the PHP script to other languages, too.

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