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Get Commuter Train Trouble Alert Delivered to Watch by IFTTT

In Coding, Web Apps on 17 January 2015 with no comments 119 views

Imagine getting alerts of Commuter Line train service disruption right on your wrist! Well, the watch thing isn’t a must as any SMS-enabled phone will do. But without the watch, I won’t be introduced to “If-this-than-that” (IFTTT), a simple logic line that glues popular apps into trigger and action branded as recipes. Anyone can code [...]

Alas my LinkedIn password is in the file! (Howto check compromised password)

In Web Apps on 12 June 2012 with no comments 57 views

When LinkedIn privacy breach was about to be revealed during Yuval Ne’eman workshop in Tel Aviv University, suddenly the timeline trends were that of friends, telling people to change LinkedIn password. Both were separate issues and of course the privacy breach was then subsided from people’s attention. To tell you the truth, as a secret [...]

URL Shortener From Yourls (1)

In Web Apps on 4 May 2010 with no comments 36 views

We can self-hosted URL Shortener service. I tried open source php-based URLShort and Yourls. I later choose Yourls. Both of course based on .htaccess manipulation (mod_rewrite of Apache must be enabled). I install Yourls in side http://my.web/somedir. To make my short URL to use something like http://my.web/xGf12 instead of http://my.web/somedir/xGf12, I run the regular install [...]