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Amazon / CowBoom / eBay / GameFly / GameStop / Microsoft Store / NewEgg / Walmart Price Watcher

Version 2.0 of my price watcher for Amazon, CowBoom, eBay, GameFly, GameStop, Microsoft Store, NewEgg, Walmart and any other site if you’re good with regular expressions.  I mark these new updates as version 2.0 because the system use to just look for HTML snippets and inform you if they showed up or disappeared.   I […]

Posted November 24, 2013 by Jason B. in Feeling Adventurous, PHP, Web Development

Beware Leaving On the “Unknown Sources” Option Android Phone Users

While doing a bit of research after finding a few links on the web as well as emails from friends which my browser automatically download a file to my system, security.awt, and would have prompted me to install.  This really isn’t a security file but rather malware who’s goal was to most likely grab all […]

Posted March 21, 2013 by Jason B. in Android, Computing, Security, Video Games

Proxy Using Putty and Chrome

So I found a good way to proxy traffic if you ever find a need to do so. It just requires you have a linux box somewhere such as Dreamhost, Putty the SSH client and a browser with an addon that lets you create a proxy.  If you don’t have a Dreamhost account then you […]

Posted November 29, 2012 by Jason B. in Computing, Linux, Security, Windows

Google’s SPDY

The awesomeness that is Google has figured out a way to speed up the web browsing world. The guys at Chromium have a white paper page on it and it has the potential of cutting the page load times of websites to just 1/3 of the normal TCP load time.  Chrome and Firefox 11 already […]

Posted March 30, 2012 by Jason B. in Web Development

YouTube Widget for TireRack

One of my somewhat recent projects I worked on completely in Flash was a “YouTube widget” in which I created a video carousel that adheres to the specifications given by YouTube that reads the XML feed for each of 6 our channels though the XML parser I wrote would read any YouTube feed.  They do […]

Posted February 27, 2012 by Jason B. in Computing, Flash, Java, Programming, Web Development

Brute Force WPS Using Reaver

A major vulnerability was found in WPS and routers using WPS.  This vulnerability can lead to you being able to break the WPS and ultimately the WPA/WPA2 encryption on the router.  Some important details in regard to this is even if the router has WPS disabled that it can still be circumvented. This brute force […]

Posted January 12, 2012 by Jason B. in Computing, Linux, Security

Add Some Flare with Google Gauges and GeoCharts

Check out these awesome new Google APIs! Google Gauges! Download Gauges Example These gauges are rendered using SVG or VML and will animate the gauges. Because of their use of SVG and VML it’ll actually work in IE6 which I find amazing.   Google GeoCharts! Download GeoChart Example The geochart is showing states with color […]

Posted January 12, 2012 by Jason B. in Computing, JavaScript, Programming, Web Development

Migrating from WordPress Multiuser (WPMU) 1.2.4 to WordPress 3.3.1

This post covers how to resolve a few issues with using the import and export feature of WordPress multiuser 1.2.4 when migrating to the latest version of WordPress which at this time is 3.3.1.  I’ll start by explaining the process where you can export the blog posts, pages, categories and links in an XML format […]

Posted January 9, 2012 by Jason B. in PHP, Scripting, Web Development