Search engine for html source code search

I needed to search for a little code which is available only in HTML source, not in the rendered page. So a simple search would show nothing. After reading on Quora and Stackoverflow, I've found some recommendations: MeanPath, Blekko, Datanyze, Nerdydata. Useless, except some limited results from Google, nothing really worked.

Type accent marks, diacritics and other characters online

If you need quickly diacritics or currency signs, typeit.org does it for you. Many languages supported.

Pasting source code in friendly format

Here are three tools you can use to paste source codes:

http://codeformatter.blogspot.de
http://hilite.me/
http://markup.su/highlighter/

Anagram and Rhyme Generator

I had some fun today with Anagram Generator and Rhyme Generator. For those who are unfamiliar with these, anagrams are rearrangements of the letters in a word. And of course, the rhyme tool is very useful if you want to do poetry.

your personal website archive

While archive.org is the biggest online website archive - you have no control over it. If you want something that archives on command, you can use archive.is . It takes a "snapshot" of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. You can use it for your own sites or for other sites you like visiting. This way, you'll be able to see them even if they turn off or get suspended.

How to protect yourself against keyloggers?

A keylogger will record everything you type so whoever installed it will know all your emails, conversations, logins, passwords and so on. Therefore if someone wants to spy on you, a keylogger is the first choice.

So you need to protect yourself and you are probably thinking of an anti-virus. But it is not enough and you should not rely on it! Even if you are 100% that your operating system is clean, there may be hardware keyloggers installed which could be impossible to detect. Don't panic, you have a few solutions:

1. You can use a virtual keyboard such as http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/. It is a Click-N-Type keyboard designed for anyone with a disability, but it can be used against keyloggers, simply by clicking keys with the mouse whenever you have to write sensitive information such as passwords. Yes, it will be hard to write an email like this.


2. If you are familiar with Linux, you should make a copy of Knoppix(Knoppix is a bootable Live system on CD/DVD). Boot your computer with this and no matter how many keyloggers there are, you have your own read only operating system so you are safe... unless there are hardware keyloggers for which you should use the previous solution.

Howto paste HTML/PHP code on blogspot

There are many ways to do this, but one of the simpliest is to use francois.schnell.free.fr/tools/BloggerPaste/BloggerPaste.html.
Happy pasting!

How to be a scientist

Do you ever dream about being a scientist? Now you can be a scientist without any effort. You can attend to conferences and meetings.
I already am a scientist, check out one of my latest article here:
http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/666/scimakelatex.63814.Ana+Aman.html

Wanna know how much effort and time I spent? Just check my article and you'll figure out.

A few interesting resources

• typingcertification.com - improve your typing skills


• spambot trap - a good article on how to stop all kind of spam bots


• IP geolocation - enter an IP and you will get some useful details about it including an accurate location on the map


• slooh - control one of the most powerful world's telescope


• dadadodo - generate random readable content

Spying on other websites stats

There are many web services who offer to track your websites stats such as: hits, referrers, geo tracking, browsers, keywords, etc. Some of them, like extremetracking.com make this information public. Searching google for "Unique Visitors"+site:extremetracking.com will pop some interesting results to look into. This can actually help with your SEO skills. You take a website which uses extremetracking, check how they optimized it, check backlinks and then check keywords and visitors and see how well is it doing. Have fun!

Calculate your website value

It's always hard to tell how much is your site worth, because there are so many factors involved. You can calculate now automatically using these tools:

# http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/
# http://www.dnscoop.com/

Of course don't expect something very accurate, but at least you can have some fun or you can feel rich for some moments.

Online IQ Tests

Are you looking to take some IQ test? Or a psychological test? Or just to have some fun training your brain? http://www.queendom.com has a nice collection of tests. My favorites are in the Mind Stretchers section.

Online Button Creator

To create small buttons easy, you can use this site: http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/

Ascii Text Generators

Terminals with fixed fonts are no longer used so much, but even where graphics are available, some ASCII texts look very cool.

Here is a test:

   _____                     _____                         
  /  _  \   ____ _____      /  _  \   _____ _____    ____  
 /  /_\  \ /    \\__  \    /  /_\  \ /     \\__  \  /    \ 
/    |    \   |  \/ __ \_ /    |    \  Y Y  \/ __ \|   |  \
\____|__  /___|  (____  / \____|__  /__|_|  (____  /___|  /
        \/     \/     \/          \/      \/     \/     \/ 

You can use these sites to create such texts automatically:
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
http://www.kammerl.de/ascii/AsciiSignature.php

Being anonymous with Tor

Tor is a tool which uses encrypted tunnels which can help you anonymize web browsing, instant messengers, IRC, and any applications that use the TCP protocol. It is based on volunteers who run servers.

Although, it was created to protect you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as "traffic analysis", it can also be used to reach websites or services that are blocked by your local Internet providers or even by local authorities(like in China), of course you do this on your own risk.


Tor is a free open source software, so anyone can use it without any charge, but beware, some even got arrested, you can read more about this here.

Site uptime monitor for your business

If you run sites or servers and want to be notified as soon as there is a problem with them, you can use siteuptime.com free service. They have various available monitoring options such as: http, pop3, smtp, ftp, dns, ping, ssl and custom tcp ports. They send tests at time intervals and if more than one location detects a connection failure, an email or SMS alert is sent to you.

Since this service has a public statistics page, you can use it to show your customers how stable your servers are, specially if you are in some kind of hosting business.

PHProxy

As the name states it, a phproxy is a proxy written in PHP. Its uses are the same as those of any proxy, bypassing the restrictions in accessing one or more sites and gaining a certain degree of privacy. Those interested can find a source code here : PHProxy
For those looking just for a list of phproxies, here is a short one consisting of proxies that don't require cookies to be enabled:

* http://www.phproxy.us
* http://proxysystems.net/proxy
* http://proxyfree.org
* http://www.nightproxy.com

and some that do:
http://www.myspaceproxy.eu
http://proxy.stealgames.com/bobo/phproxy.php
http://radio-farda.com
http://erfanir.fbhosting.com/erfan
http://w3proxy.com
http://proxycircle.com/index.php
http://www.joeproxy.com/proxy.php
http://www.proxyzap.com
http://www.fmchat.net/vicks/proxy2
http://www.phproxy.org/proxy.html
http://www.bigcn.be/index.php
http://silkyportal.com
http://nima643.glwb.info
http://ezproxy.org/index.php
http://cngo.agpr.net/proxy
http://www.phproxy.org

online stopwatch

Do you need a stopwatch as soon as possible? simply open a new tab and go to http://tools.arantius.com/stopwatch then simply push the Start button.

Meaning of Names

Ever wondered what is your surname or firstname meaning? Do you the provenience of your names? Do you know that some people, specially in Africa have unique names? Here are some interesting websites where you can find such information:

Behind The Name
Name Meanings
Most Popular Names

Article rewrite by rephrasing sentences

Many hire persons to rewrite certain articles and then to republish them in their own site, trying so to avoid duplicate content penalty. How legal is this? I am not very sure and I think all depends on the article author and I assume the more the article is changed, the more legal it gets.

However, if you cannot afford or you dont want to hire human rewriters, you can use this free tool.

I've seen other tools too, but most of them were commercial or hard to use so I could not really test them.