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Downloading Audio/Songs from YouTube 16 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Sometimes you come across a video in YouTube and you want to save its audio. Originally I thought it would take some search for the actual URL of the flv source, then downloading it using wget and fin...
Mozilla Persona 10 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
I came across today Mozilla Persona. It’s a Single-Sign-On (SSO) system that is similar to OpenID. While it looks like there is no need for yet-another-SSO, it does have some promising features compar...
name-taken – Check if your project name is taken 20 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
Every time I want to start a new open-source project I come across this small “problem”: Making sure that the name for the project isn’t already taken. Today I decided to solve it by creating a simple...
Haaretz Premium Bypass Userscript POC 13 Jul 2013 | 10:06 pm
Haaretz site became paywalled a couple of months ago, allowing reading 10 “premium” articles before requiring payment. After a friend recommended their app for smartphones, which unlike the site is fr...
Dealing with Spam – Follow-up 13 Jul 2013 | 09:49 pm
In the beginning of June, I wrote about the rising number of spam missed by Akismet. The main issue was a noticeable increase in the number of spam messages which get through Akismet, which is kind of...
Something gone wrong with Akismet? 1 Jun 2013 | 05:01 pm
Akismet is a great spam filtering service for WordPress which did wonders for my blog. Actually, it’s quite generic and can be used with any commenting service, for example with Trac (I used this for ...
spass-3.1 Secure Password Generator Released 17 May 2013 | 09:12 pm
Usually release announcements go together with the actual release. Somehow, I’ve postponed writing about the new release for quite some time, but better late than never. spass is a tool that creates c...
Securing Access to phpMyAdmin on Lighttpd via SSH 5 Apr 2013 | 01:53 pm
phpMyAdmin lets easily manage your MySQL databases, as such it also presents a security risk. Logging in to phpMyAdmin is done using a username and password for the database. Hence, if someone is able...
Incremental WordPress Backups using Duply (Duplicity) 29 Mar 2013 | 01:49 am
This post outlines how to create encrypted incremental backups for WordPress using duplicity and duply. The general method, as you will see is pretty generic, and I’ve been using it successfully to ba...
Manually Install SSL Certificate in Android Jelly Bean 16 Mar 2013 | 03:58 pm
Apparently it’s pretty easy, but there are some pitfalls. The first step is to export the certificate as a DER encoded X.509 certificate. This can be done using Firefox (on a PC) by clicking on the SS...
