Ever wondered how many people know what a browser is? If you haven’t this video may make you cry a little.
What is a Browser?
June 17th, 2009Checking for embarrassing words in a string
June 16th, 2009I was recently on YouTube and I noticed that did not check the shortened strings for potentially embarrassing shortenings of words.
How to make a great example?
Here is the code so you can shorten strings and check for potentially embrassing words.
Socialize This – V1.1
June 14th, 2009I just updated the Plugin Socialize This in regards to a Private/Public function and variable error. Basically I forgot to check how the plugin worked in a PHP4 environment.
Apologies for the inconvenience caused.
Thank you everyone who commented regarding this problem, I appericate your assistance 
CAPTCHA Based On Image Orientation
June 5th, 2009A few months ago 3 Google employees explored an innovative approach to CAPTCHA (What’s Up CAPTCHA? A CAPTCHA Based On Image Orientation). Essentially they suggested that having a user orientate an image into its upright position is easier for users (typing difficult to read text can be problematic) and harder for computers.
A computer finds it really difficult to know if this is correctly orientated.
Here is a version I wrote which to can use on your website.
This script makes use of jQuery to allow the user to rotate the images and a little PHP to check the image was rotated into the correct position.
Apple Can’t Do Math
June 5th, 2009I was recently checking my emails and I noticed a nice email from Apple informing me on how I can get a great deal on an iPod Touch if I purchased a Mac. Unfortunately I was a little distracted by the pie chart in the background.
Click the image to see a larger picture. I’m quite sure that 50% of a pie graph does not equal 90%