Category: Tutorials

  • How To: Save Disk Space, Bandwidth and Load Time on Website Images Using Smushit.com

    If you are a web developer you know the importance of disk space, bandwidth and load time when it comes to images. And it will become increasingly important latter when web 2.0 becomes standard among with HTML5. You need a way to compress the images, and I don’t mean resizing the image, which can also…

  • Hearts, Planets and Other Unicode Symbols

    Ever seen a heart in a HTML document? Or perhaps a Word processing document? Not an image, an actual hear, in which you can copy and paste. Just like it was a part of the font package. Well it is, on most operating systems. And it’s apart of UTF-8 UNICODE, so you can use it…

  • How To: Banner Grab With NetCat

    Netcat is without any doubt my favorite security tool, it’s always in my toolbox alwayswith me, it comes in handy a few times. It’s the first tool I pick when I need to perform a banner grab, just connect and send some requests and see what it spits back at you (sometimes just random crap).…

  • How To: Add Google Analytics Code to WordPress Manually

    I have already posted a WordPress plugin recommendation on the plugin “Google Analytics for WordPress” and it works great. But there is a few things that I personally find annoying. First of all, it not only adds the Analytics code to the header, but also “Powered by blah blah blah” and I find that egotistic…

  • How To: Create a Website Favicon (Favorite Icon) Using GIMP

    So, you may have noticed that my blog has a cute litte tux the penguin looking at you through a round little window up in the left (or right) corner of your web browser. What you are seeing is known as a “Favicon” (short for Favorite icon) and it’s used to quickly and simply identify…