Category Archives: Web Related

Connecting Sequel Pro to Bluehost databases

I found the instructions to this in a thread over at bluehostforum, but thought I’d re-post them here and provide what worked for me.
I’m using Sequel Pro, formerly CocoaMySQL, to connect to databases on my Bluehost account. Here’s what I did.
To pull all the info together, I had to add my IP to:
Cpanel > Databases [...]

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Weird IM Spam using Coho and Trout and Salmon

So, I’m always annoyed and curious when I get these weird spam messages, and I finally looked them up to see what this was all about. It turns out it’s not technically spam, but some experiment. You can read more about it here at this wikipedia article It was originally called The Great Hatsby, and [...]

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Download websites quickly using SSH and rsync instead of FTP

So, I’m a complete idiot around the command line, so when someone teaches me how to do something, I write it down so I don’t forget. Today Matt showed me how to quickly and much more easily download an entire online folder via SSH using rsync rather than the slow and tedious method of just [...]

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Wordpress for the iPhone

This is a test/ review of the new iPhone app from wordpress. It will be short since I am writing it from my iPhone, but so far, set up took less than a minute and I’m already composing. This is fantastic. It’s also COMPLETELY intuitive. Everything has been right where it should be, and the [...]

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Douchebag Wordpress Plugin

Got a douchebag always leaving lame comments? Mark him with an icon that lets everyone know how you feel.

The Douchebag plugin for Wordpress is pretty much the greatest idea ever. There are a lot of times when I dislike a comment, or a commenter in general, but you don’t want to a) delete the comment, [...]

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Hardcore advanced renaming of files in Mac OS X and Windows

Renamer4Mac is an advanced file renaming tool for Mac OS.
Where was this app just a few weeks ago? I needed this desperately and ended up bugging my programmer for 30 minutes as we wrote a shell script (never done that before) to make some pretty sophisticated file-renames. However, I was pretty nervous to hit “go” [...]

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Porn Spam and the search for Links

I noticed this morning that a comment had made its way into my queue for moderation on one of my rarely updated sites this morning. When I went to moderate it, I saw as I expected that it was spam and filled with links to porn sites. It had the usual “lesbian licking party” with [...]

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Quickly and easily add images to your site or blog without hotlinking

Man, I love adding cool images to my blog posts, but sometimes it can be a pain to find an image, download it, upload it, get the path, and blah blah blah. So, imgred.com makes it easy to embed images in your site, but instead of hotlinking to the original source, imgred downloads it, places [...]

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Firefox Inline Autocomplete

I spend most of my day with my hands on the keyboard and a web browser open. So, one feature I’ve come to absolutely love is Firefox’s inline autocomplete. Basically what this means is that when you’re typing into the address bar a URL, and you’ve visited a similarly named site before (for instance, I [...]

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Wufoo - Hosted Form Service

I’ll be the first to admit that this free script solution isn’t the most full-featured form builder I’ve ever seen, but it is very simple and handy for it’s intended purpose. Sometimes however, you need a little more muscle. Wufoo is just such a muscle. It’s a great, hosted service that lets you manage and [...]

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