I took down PCwilleasy.co.cc! There, I'll admit to it. I am the one who did it. I know this might disappoint the 1500 followers the pcwilleasy Twitter account still has, but it was for everybody's best. Here's the why: PCwilleasy was a copyright infringing site. It copied articles word for word from legitimate sites and often displayed the images, hotlinking them from the … [Read more...]
Smarter WordPress Through Plugins
Blog posts about WordPress plugins and list after list of plugins are dime-a-dozen and appear on the front page of social news sites at least weekly. Heck, I even wrote a post earlier this earlier titled The Best WordPress Plug-Ins. Instead of creating just another list, I wanted to share some of the plug-ins I use here on 404 Tech Support because they're functional and have … [Read more...]
Adding Seadragon, a High Quality Image Viewer, to phpBB3
Microsoft Labs has developed a Silverlight-based web application called Seadragon which is used to make viewing large images more practical. Panoramic and other high quality images can have you scrolling all over so that you may not be able to see the whole picture or if the image is resampled down, you lose a lot of the detail. Seadragon provides an interface that allows you … [Read more...]
An FLV Player and BBcode for Inline FLV Attachments in phpBB3
Upon request, I began looking into how to modify my previous post regarding how to embed MP3 attachments with a Flash player on a phpBB3 forum to also allow the same thing for FLV videos. After following this article, in your phpBB3 forum you'll be able to use a BBCode to play .flv files as well as upload .flv files and embed them to play with a single click on the "Place … [Read more...]
Installing Tynt Tracer on WordPress for Copy Protection
Having been a victim of blog-scraping (my articles hosted on another site typically with somebody else's ads) multiple times now, I've always kept an eye open for tools that help protect against copyright infringement like installing MyFreeCopyright.com on WordPress. I recently had another bout of blog scraping from a Blogger site and Google has since shut the page down, but … [Read more...]