BizzarScripts

I read slashdot often and I wanted to share this one article here since I don’t think most people are aware of the software that this article mentions. I didn’t, so I did some googling and after reading some of the sites, I feel it my internet duty to pass these things along to people who might not know about them. The poll is basically this…

“Last week we took nominations for a Slashdot category at the SourceForge Community Choice awards. Our category was ‘Most Likely to be Shutdown By Government Agency’. Your nominations were tallied, and we arbitrarily selected a few that we think are the best. Today is the day where you can at long last determine the winner, using the incredibly scientifically accurate Slashdot Poll. Our nominees are Truecrypt, EFF Patent Busting, GNU Software Radio, WikiLeaks, Cryptome.org, Tor, Freenet, and CowboyNeal”

Read more…
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/06/09/1612250.shtml

Here are the links to the sites mentioned in the article…
http://www.truecrypt.org/ [truecrypt.org]
http://w2.eff.org/patent/ [eff.org]
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/ [gnu.org]
http://www.wikileaks.org/ [wikileaks.org]
http://www.cryptome.org/ [cryptome.org]
http://www.torproject.org/ [torproject.org]
http://freenetproject.org/ [freenetproject.org]

I also added the links and thumbnails at IDugUp.com also!

This is something fun I put together. This site is like digg, but I like it better. It’s basically a place for me or anyone to dump links to cool or useful resources and web pages online. All posts require admin approval before being displayed, but should prove to be useful for anyone. I’m hoping to add search, tagging capabilities, but for now, I’m just collecting links. So if you have some cool things you’d like to share, go dump your links there and it’ll get added!

Click here to go check out IDugUp!

I figured since I’ve changed the license of this to the GPL, I opened a project over on Sourceforge for it! I’m pretty happy since I have a couple of SF projects, but this is my favorite!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpanti-leech/

Bizzar Host Blocker is not exactly a breakthrough in ad/spyware blocking. This is a technique I learned through reading different sites. Basically, this script will add entries to your local hosts file that will prevent IE and/or Firefox from loading websites that contain garbage. This not only speeds up your browsing time, but also prevents you from accidently loading malware intended content. It is not a perfect system and you should definitely consider getting some real protection, but it’s a start and it’s free so it’s worth a shot.

Click here for more information and a link to download!

I’ve been tinkering with code off and on for a while that would let me generate thumbnails for urls on the fly. No matter what I’ve tried though, a lot of scripts and programs just would not work out. But I know it’s possible since I know other sites are doing it, so I kept at it. Well, I’m happy to say I’ve found a method for generating the thumbs that is pretty efficient. Here are a few samples.

These are just a sample. To view your own thumbnail, use the following url:

http://www.urlthumbnail.com/thumb.php?url=www.bizzarscripts.com

and just replace the url value with the url of your site or whatever site your trying to load. What will happen is my script will queue your site for parsing, generate the thumb, and upload it for hosting to the service. It should happen fairly quickly (usually less than 5 minutes) but this service is still BETA so it might not work for all sites, but I’ve found it works for most. If it gives you trouble, make sure your trying it without the http:// part. There’s something up with the html encoding process, but I’m working on it.

For more information, visit www.urlthumbnail.com