Archive for May, 2008

Website Monitoring Service

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I use Site24×7 for my website monitoring service - it’s nice because you can be notified via email and/or SMS whenever your site goes down. Sorry, it’s not free - I only use it because I signed up when they started and was grandfathered in. The website I’ve been working on has [...]

The Gratitude Campaign

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

This is obviously an aside to the web tools I usually post about.
As the son of a 20+ year, 3 time war Army vet and brother of a ROTC cadet, I feel the need to help spread the word about a new effort to show our gratitude for our brave armed forces.
From an email I [...]

Valid Google PageRank for each server

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I just thought I’d share the site that I use to find my sites’ PR. I use DigPageRank. The site is a very useful tool. Obviously, there are a lot of PR tools out there, but I find this one particularly useful because it’s simple and it returns results from multiple servers, [...]

Hash Generator - MD5, MD4, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, and more

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I’ve created a script that will hash a given string with 38 different algorithms. The algorithms are listed below.
Demo: http://www.randomtools.net/scripts/hash.php
HTML Form:

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<form method="post" action="">
<p>Key to hash: <input type="text" name="key" /> <button type="submit">Submit</button></p>
</form>

PHP Source Code:

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<?php
if (isset($_POST[’key’])) {
$key = $_POST[’key’];
echo ‘<hr /><ul>’;
foreach (hash_algos() as $algo) {
echo ‘<li><strong>’, $algo, ‘:</strong> <input type="text" value="’, hash($algo, $key), ‘" onclick="this.select();" /></li>’; [...]

Useful SEO tools, etc.

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I consider myself somewhat of a domainer, so I’m always trying to keep a good overall look over the industry so I know what’s going to happen before others do. When I find domains or sites I might be interested in, I typically do some quick research on them. I also like to [...]

Freelance “time card” calculator

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I don’t know how many others will find this handy, but I’ve found it handy myself. It’s tools like this that make this site “Random Web Tools.”
The script is very simple. I just basically created a format for logging the time you work in a text file, so that you can [...]