December 29th, 2006
I need a new digital camera
I have come to the sad realization that it's time to invest in a new digital camera (though I admit that I'd much rather just win one). (more…)
December 29th, 2006
Customizable Digg This! module for Joomla & Mambo
Create beautiful Joomla websites with a flexible layout from iJoomla.com
This is another free module I've created for Jooma & Mambo to allow site owners to quickly add a Digg This! button to their articles. The module is highly customizable, and has the following features:
- Use the default image (
) or pick your own from the Digg buttons page. - Specify the width and height of the Digg button.
- Append the site name to the title of the submission. This defaults to 'no'.
- You can even specify the default topic to submit to (in catId format).
Download the Digg It! customizable module. You can see it in action on this cichlid site (click on an article).
Create beautiful Joomla websites with a flexible layout from iJoomla.com
December 29th, 2006
CipherTrust offers a free Anti spam, phishing and fraud toolbar (pure ridiculousness)
My Google Alerts tossed me a new release relating to CipherTrust, a fairly well-known anti-spam provider. They're now offering a free toolbar for Outlook and Lotus Notes that promises to predict the probability that a message is a spam or a phishing attack. Apparently you'll also be able to report messages individually.
Truthfully enough, the company claims that this toolbar is the first of its kind. No other anti-spam vendor has even thought of making a toolbar! Well in my opinion, that's because no anti-spam vendor should think of making a toolbar. Honestly, if you need a toolbar to hog resources on each client just to stop spam that's getting through, that simply means that your appliance isn't stopping it on the server/appliance.
I would venture to say that this effort to differentiate themselves has only made them look incompetent. Sorry.
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December 28th, 2006
Check Alexa PageRank, Google/MSN/Yahoo Backlinks
Here is a PHP code snippet that will allow you to check the Alexa rank, and the number of inbound links in Google, MSN and Yahoo search engines.
All you need to do is set the $url variable, which you can do by posting from a form, or perhaps including it in the querystring.
<?php
/*
Function to check Alexa rank
*/
/*
Function to check Alexa rank
*/
function get_alexa($url){
$site = fopen('http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url='.urlencode($url),'r');
while($cont = fread($site,1024657)){
$total .= $cont;
}
fclose($site);
$match_expression = '/for more information about the Alexa Web Information Service.–>(.*)<\/span><\/a>/Us';
preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches);
return strip_tags($matches[1]);
}
/*
Function to check Google Backlinks
*/
function google_backs($url){
$site = fopen('http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3A'.urlencode($url),'r');
while($cont = fread($site,1024657)){
$total .= $cont;
}
fclose($site);
$match_expression = '/of about <b>(.*)<\/b> linking to/Us';
preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}
/*
Functin to check MSN Backlinks
*/
function msn_backs($url){
$site = fopen('http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link%3A'.urlencode($url),'r');
while($cont = fread($site,1024657)){
$total .= $cont;
}
fclose($site);
$match_expression = '/<h5>Page 1 of (.*) results<\/h5>/Us';
preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}
/*
Function to check Yahoo Backlinks (Called inlinks)
*/
function yahoo_backs($url){
$site = fopen('http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p='.urlencode($url).'&bwm=i&bwmf=a&bwms=p','r');
while($cont = fread($site,1024657)){
$total .= $cont;
}
fclose($site);
$match_expression = '/of about <strong>(.*) <\/strong>/Us';
preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}
/*
Example Usage:
*/
$link = 'http://www.google.com';
echo "URL: $link, Has ". get_alexa($link).' Alexa Rank, Google BackLinks: '.google_backs($link).' - MSN BackLinks '.msn_backs($link).' Yahoo BackLinks: '.yahoo_backs($link);
?>
