Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 15 May 2012 02:35:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 CompTIA SSL Certificate Error http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/comptia-ssl-certificate-error.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/comptia-ssl-certificate-error.html#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 02:26:13 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=971 Going to https://support.comptia.org gives the following error. You would think that the organization that certifies computer security would have SSL certificates figured out…

]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/comptia-ssl-certificate-error.html/feed 0 Checking is a site is malware blacklisted http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/checking-is-a-site-is-malware-blacklisted.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/checking-is-a-site-is-malware-blacklisted.html#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:09:14 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=945 Google Safe Browing is a service Google uses in FireFox and Chrome to detect malicious websites: https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/

Individual sites can be checked by replacing the site=google.com with the site you would like to check:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com

]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/checking-is-a-site-is-malware-blacklisted.html/feed 0 First page visit test http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/first-page-visit-test.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/first-page-visit-test.html#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:45:13 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=929 Continue reading →]]> This page displays the first time any page on www.matthewstevenkelly.com is visited, when the below code is enabled. I have it disabled right now, but if you would like to create a landing page on your site using javascript, simple add the code below to your page <head> and replace the url= with your sites landing page. You can enable this on an entire site by adding it to the <head> of every page, or just add it to a single page. It uses cookies to detect if the site has been visited before.

<script language=”Javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
function GetCookie(name) {
var arg=name+”=”;
var alen=arg.length;
var clen=document.cookie.length;
var i=0;
while (i<clen) {
var j=i+alen;
if (document.cookie.substring(i,j)==arg)
return “here”;
i=document.cookie.indexOf(” “,i)+1;
if (i==0) break;
}
return null;
}
var visit=GetCookie(“COOKIE1″);
if (visit==null){
var expire=new Date()+60*60*24*30;
document.cookie=”COOKIE1=here; expires=”+expire;
url = “http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/first-page-visit-test.html”;
if(document.referrer!=url){window.location = url;}
}
// –>
</script>

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strlen($ins[1]); // 9
strlen(trim($ins[1])); // 7
$w = preg_replace(‘/[^0-9\.]/Uis’, ”, trim($ins[1]));
strlen($w); // 4
echo $w; // 1.02
echo is_numeric($w); // TRUE
floatval($w); // 1.02

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]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/stop-american-censorship.html/feed 0 PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/protect-ip-act-breaks-the-internet.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/protect-ip-act-breaks-the-internet.html#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:31:49 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=867 For more information: http://americancensorship.org/

]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/protect-ip-act-breaks-the-internet.html/feed 0 The right to petition your government… http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/community/the-right-to-petition-your-government.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/community/the-right-to-petition-your-government.html#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:21:06 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=822 Continue reading →]]> “The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Throughout our history, Americans have used petitions to organize around issues they care about from ending slavery, to guaranteeing women’s right to vote, to the civil rights movement.”

So why not sign this one:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/revisit-its-decision-retired-space-shuttle-enterprise-and-award-it-national-museum-usaf-oh/gm68DlS3

 

 

 

]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/community/the-right-to-petition-your-government.html/feed 0 Visible Vote http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/community/visible-vote.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/community/visible-vote.html#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 01:09:11 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=792 Continue reading →]]> Interested in having a more Web 2.0 interface to your elected representatives? I just recently found out about the Visible Vote application and have since loaded it on my phone: http://visiblevote.us/

It is a great application that gives you news about your national representatives (House and Senate) as well as the ability to vote on specific legislation and polls that Visible Vote then sends tallies to each of the politicians you have loaded. There is even a way to quickly send all of them a message. With all of this being straight from your phone (and Visible Vote has applications for several different handhelds), it’s easy to send a quick message, or get in a few votes from anywhere!

And just for fun, a few internet related bills before Congress. Your thoughts?

]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/community/visible-vote.html/feed 0 Secure Facebook Browsing http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/secure-facebook-browsing.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/secure-facebook-browsing.html#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:06:00 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=801 Continue reading →]]> Do you ever access facebook from a public Wi-Fi location? You should probably treat Facebook and other social networking sites like you do a bank website, ie. don’t browse insecurely. Public Wi-Fi networks aren’t very safe.

To enable secure connections in Facebook, just hit “Account” in the upper-right hand corner of any Facebook window and go to “Account Settings“.

]]> http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/secure-facebook-browsing.html/feed 0 Picture Perfect Private Information http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/picture-perfect-private-information.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/random/picture-perfect-private-information.html#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:29:59 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=807 Continue reading →]]> Remember that picture of my dog that supposedly only my friends can see?

Now imagine that private (but not really) image had all kinds of information in it, like what could be shown in the picture below. Or imagine if it was taken with a new smartphone camera that stores personal information like my location in the photos…

Windows Vista & Windows 7 have a link on the detail tab of every picture property labeled “Remove Properties and Personal Information”. You can select one, or several images at a time. If you are posting a picture online, that you want to keep some form of privacy with, I would suggest using this built in Windows feature.

And for all you Micro$oft haters out there :) MAC OSX and Linux both require third party software to remove this personal data.

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