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Secure Any Form | Stop Spam Submission

Monday, October 6th, 2014

So,. a while back I had an intern, that grew in to a great webdevloepr. Along the way he came up with a great method to block spam posts on forums, contact forms and any other type of site you can think of,.

Basically it stops automated posting, and there are a couple of things you can do,

1) Create a div that is set to display: hidden; (div must be in the form you want to block spam on)
2) Add a text field to this div, with a name of “checkMore” and an id of “checkMore” value=””
3) In your form submission check’s usually performed via javascript if( checkMore != ” ) it’s spam
4) In your php/asp whatever it posts to,. check for the checkMore variable if it has a value you know it’s spam

That’s it,.

Bangkok House Lansing –> http://www.bangkokhouselansing.com/

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

So,. in a RRAK,. rob’s random acts of kindness,. I’ve built a menu for my favorite Thai restaurant in Lansing.

If you are looking for a menu for Bangkok House, look no further, it’s now available at BangkokHouseLansing.com

Craigslist Statewide Search Tool clrds.com

Thursday, July 24th, 2014

So,. are you like me, always searching for the next great deal. It’s not important the item, it’s more important the deal.

Well the other day I was searching, and I found a site that lets you group your searching in to regions, or statewide, then you can save your search and ads that peak your interest.

Craigslist Statewide Search using clrds.com

Massage in Las Vegas

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

Licensed massage therapist offering in-room and onsite massage. Great rates, professional service.

Visit http://massagesincity.com/ for details

Not a Magento Issue : “client denied by server configuration”

Monday, May 12th, 2014

So today, I had a nice “Client denied by server configuration error”.

If you are familiar with the platform, you will understand my frustration as that is the only information it gives you. Well, I used my deductive reasoning skills to find out WTF it could be.

My issue came up while I was uploading images. I had images in the backend but they would show up in the front end. I kept uploading and it would show fine in the back end then nothing would show up in the front.

Well, magento, I figured out that it was my fault, I was using too high a resolution photo, or too big a file size more accurately. Well, I tried with a smaller image, and boom, worked like a charm.

Office 365 DNS Settings Problem | DNS Routes through their server to yours.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

Ok,. so if you are like I am, and manage a ton of servers, domains, and accounts for clients’ then this is important information for you.

The new Microsoft Office 365 product is a cloud based solution for office applications, including email. Simple enough, we’ve all used MS Office for years, what could be different. For one, they want to add their server in the steps it takes to get from typing your domain name to it being translated to the folder on your server.

How things work now,… for example let’s assume you have a dedicated server with a hosting company like liquidweb.com. You can either use their DNS server, or setup your own,. I typically setup my own name servers, so for this example lets use my name servers ns1.mynameserver.com and ns2.mynameserver.com.

When a user enters www.mydomain.com their browser asks the “internet” for a connection to that domain name,. but the internet doesn’t use domains to communicate it uses IP addresses, and other methods. So Step 1) Interpret mydomain.com by asking,. and you get a response of 67.x.x.x.9 ok,. great,. from there you are directed to the content you are looking for. Obviously this is a seamless event that just happens.

Microsoft has a new five step setup process, and on step 5 it asks you to point your domain name to their name servers. Well, this is what got my attention. When a client asks me to point his domain at new nameservers I know that something is up.

So, after some digging, I’ve found that Step 5 is indeed to set the name servers for your domain to their microsoft 365 servers… which would break your domain. Then I poked around some more and found that step 2 was to give them your domains IP address,. They setup an A Record and CNAME on their servers. So that in Step 5 you set it to use their servers.

What does this mean? It means that they are adding themselves in the steps between a client typing your domain name and being delivered to your website.

1) Consumer Types www.yourdomain.com in the browser
2) Godaddy,. or whomever tells their browser that it resides on microsoft.com server
3) Microsoft server says oh, that isn’t here, it’s on this server,. and points to your server,.
4) Client is provided with your site,.

Can you think of any reasons why Microsoft would want to control your DNS, or to have you make a stop over on the path between your customers and your domain? I can think of a bunch,. like getting you blocked on google,. while giving you a bump on bing.

Is DealDash.com a Scam | I’m investigating it now.

Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Today, a flash commercial ran over and over, displaying great bid wins on items via an honest auction environment.

Well, I’m going to try it out and report back, with my opinion and experiences.

Typical auction scam, charge per bid, and increase the time remaining every time there is a good.

Not for me.

Doctor Places Directory

Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

Looking for a doctor by specialty and location, you can use your location based search system to find a specialist near you within seconds.

If you need to find a specialist, visit FindingMyDoctor.com, it uses the Google Places™ system, so if it’s on the map you should be able to find it.

Wholesale Electronic Cigarettes

Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

If you’ve found this post, then you are looking for a supplier for e-cigs.

Well, I can help you find your way down that ticky path. First you need to decide the types of products that you want to carry. If you are a party store, gas station or convenience store I would recommend that you stick with disposable electronic cigarettes. Otherwise you will need to start researching batteries, atomizers, cartomizers, drip tips and more.

Now that you’ve landed on disposables, decide how much profit you want to make, If you are looking to sell the most popular, expect to make very little, you can contact BLU and order them directly and NJOY for low profit highly advertised ecigs.

We’ve been lucky enough to find a company out of Ann Arbor, DiggECig. They offer 800 puff disposables in a variety of flavors and strengths, and their pricing starts at $2.79 each, we retail them for $4.99 and make a ton of profit.

We’ve had good luck with DiggECig products, and even have sent some in under the recycling program for free ecigs.

Email Scam – domainservicesonline.org

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Apparently, domainservicesonline.org uses a crawler or a bot, to look for new domains, it then emails the technical contact to tell them they need to “Register my site” to get added to google, yahoo and bing.

Well guess what, it’s spam if you receive an email from registration@urlshort.org or something from sendgrid.me or anything from domainservicesonline.org they are trying to get your information.

They are not a site submission company, they are a spam company collecting data.