Posts Tagged tools
Break out of infinite alert() popups!
Posted by Howard Yeend in Firefox, javascript on February 17th, 2010
How many times have you been developing in javascript and said “I’ll just pop it in an alert”, alt-tab, refresh and then the sudden sinking feeling as you realise that you’re about to get 300 alert popups?
Damn! Now you have to sit there and press OK a bajillion times, or restart the browser – which is a pain because you’ll lose all your tabs, and more importantly you’ll lose your concentration while you load everything up again.
We’ve all been there. But recently I found a neat little trick to break out of infinite javascript alert loops in firefox:
GIFexplode – community powered web development
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP, web on August 2nd, 2009
Let me share with you a very cool story about strangers coming together and building something.
I was browsing reddit yesterday, and I saw a thread entitled “Someone needs to make a Firefox add-on that lets you step through animated gifs frame by frame“. I thought “hey that’s a nice well defined simple idea” – just the kind of thing I love, so I registered a nice-sounding domain name and started looking at how to use PHP to split an animated gif into its component frames – I figured it couldn’t be too hard. Read the rest of this entry »
Backup your files in the cloud with Dropbox
Posted by Howard Yeend in Productivity, Programs, web on May 29th, 2009
How does 2 gig of free online storage sound? Well you can with this really sweet application! I’ve been using it for 6 months and it’s just great to be able to “set it and forget”; once a file is in my dropbox I know I can blow up my PC and still have full backups. That’s a good feelin’ :0)
Hacking Facebook
Posted by Howard Yeend in Other Code, Productivity, hacking, web on May 8th, 2009
Hacking Facebook with Javascript
Because facebook relies so heavily on javascript, and because we can type javascript into the address bar, that means we can “poke” into the workings of facebook to do things that we wouldn’t normally be able to do. It’s not “hacking” exactly, but it employs the same sort of skills hackers use when looking into applications. The best part is that because it’s all using the same control codes (or “API”) that facebook uses, there’s no way for facebook to find out you’re doing it, so it’s totally safe! (I think…) Besides, we’re not going to be doing anything too dodgy, just a few little tweaks ;)
Firefox Extensions
Posted by Howard Yeend in Firefox on March 13th, 2009
Firefox has been a massively innovative browser; bringing tabbed browsing and plugins to the masses. Here I list what I consider to be essential firefox plugins (aka extensions). This list is quite old now and some of these have been incorporated into firefox. I’ll be writing an updated list soon, in the meantime, let me know in the comments what extensions/plugins/tweaks and hacks you love!
Neat Windows Tools
Posted by Howard Yeend in Programs on March 13th, 2009
Most of these tools have a computer security slant, some cannot be classified under any other term than ‘hacking tools’, so be careful when running them, especially if you don’t know what they do. Tools that interact with a network in a potentially dangerous way are marked with ‘D’. Read the rest of this entry »
PHP Winamp Randomiser
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP on March 13th, 2009
A PHP script that will play random mp3s from a specified directory. This script has -only- been tested with the following configuration: Winamp 5.02, PHP 5.0.2, Apache 1.3.29. It may or may not work on other config, and as with much of the code here, is pretty much a proof-of-concept rather than a neatly packaged-up application. Read the rest of this entry »
PHP HTTP Interface
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP, hacking, networking on March 13th, 2009
This code give you a HTML front end for HTTP using PHP. I quite often find myself wanting to fire up putty to send some custom HTTP headers, so I wrote this simple PHP tool to provide a “front end” for HTTP. It allows quick and easy customisation of HTTP headers, sends them to a web server and shows you in plain text the HTTP response headers and body. It’s quite nifty and rather useful for debugging / hacking / etc. Read the rest of this entry »
PHP Bar Graph / Bar Chart
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP on August 29th, 2005
This script allows you to create a simple dynamic horizontal PHP bar graph / bar chart from session data. With labels, colours, and many other customisable features. Great if you just want a simple PHP chart with no fuss.
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Small PHP Tools
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP on February 5th, 2005
Here I present various online web applications that you can use from your browser. In most cases, PHP source code is provided.
If there’s an app here that you want the source to, email me. Read the rest of this entry »