Archive for Online Tools

Banning IPs using .htaccess

May 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

One of the many features the file .htaccess provides for a website is the ability to ban IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses from accessing it. This could be useful when a spambot, scrapper or leecher is consuming your bandwidth.

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An Online GUID Generator Tool

April 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

Another addition to our Tools page is the GUID Generator. GUID which stands for Globally Unique Identifier, are 32 character Hexadecimal character string usually stored as a 128 bit integer, an example of a GUID is {F2E0A7B9-F29D-869B-4CC1-F2550D628100}. They are also known as UUIDs or Universally Unique Identifiers. To read more about GUID visit Wikipedia’s GUID page.

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Check your Website with Host Services

April 19, 2010 | 0 Comments

Host Services is my latest addition to the Tools page. It’s basically a port scanner that checks the services on a server to make sure they are running. What makes it different from other port scanners is it only checks the services that are expected to be running on a server, like HTTP and FTP. This makes it much faster. And because it’s running on the server you could check if the inaccessibility of a service is from your end or your website’s.

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An Online Tool to Generate The MD5 of Text

September 7, 2009 | 0 Comments

I’ve created a web based MD5 generator for text. MD5 is a widely used cryptographic hash function that can be used to check the integrity of data. If the data is changed the hash value will change too. If you would like to know how to create an MD5 in C# go to An MD5 Hash of a String. Hope you find it useful.

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