Well it seems that I have had a hell of a time cleaning up my website from its recent hack.  Gotta love it when the first time you find out about your site being compromised is via google.

So what happened to me is someone uploaded a whole bunch of files to my Wordpress directory with links to god knows what content.  So after going through those directories (numerous times!) and cleaning them up and deleting outdated random files I think it is finally clean.

I was looking for something to monitor my website directories for any file changes or any random uploads that I didn’t authorize.  I came across this PHP script that you can put in your root directory and then you set a cron job to run the script every so many hours.

The script emails a specified email address and lets you know of any changes since the last run.

Monitor Hacked Files Website

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Well if you have ever wanted portable apps on crack this might just be the application for you.  With USB keys getting up to 128GB these days trying to find stuff to fill it is about half the fun!  Well just ran across this application the other day, it puts Portable Apps to shame and has over 200+ applications that are easily updateable and easy to download new ones.  It also allows you to easily add applications that are not part of the general install package.

The ultimate package comes with over 200+ applications and download at about 200MB and unzips to about 600MB.  I finally have everything I could ever want on my work laptop without having to worry about actually installing software on it!

LiberKey Website

I thought that I wrote about this a while ago…but I guess not.  Sometimes between working from home and working at the office sometimes I am missing my network mappings to get to the shared folders that I need.  Well with the easy command of:

Net use DRIVE: \\SERVERLOCATION

You can map your network drives via a batch script.  Also if you are at your office you can just run ‘Net Use’ and see all the drives you are mapped to and their locations.  This can make creating your batch script much easier.  All about the efficiency!

Well I ran across a reason to look for this the other day.  I was downloading some stuff and ended up downloading an ISO, because I didn’t really want to go upstairs and get a CD and deal with burning one I figured I would try to virtually mount the ISO to a drive.  After about 3 software attempts I found that this was the best solution.

MagicDisk allows you to mount up to 4 virtual CD drives and then you can mount the ISO to the drive letter.  Very handy and super easy to use.

MagicDisk Website

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So Laura and I decided to go on a little hike this past weekend.  The weather was great and it was a really nice temperature out.  The hike was about 6.5 miles round trip the turn around point is where they were going to build the Summer White House in 1911 but never decided to

If you are like my wife you have 1000’s of fonts and find it really hard to compare them and try to figure out which one to choose while you are developing something.  This application called NexusFont allows you to easily visually manage your fonts.  It also has an install that allows you to manage and clean up the fonts you have installed on your computer.  It is super lightweight and easy to use

NexusFont Website

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You can never have too many fonts on hand and it doesn’t hurt especially when you are making a new header logo or something.  This site has a ton of free fonts, and after you have downloaded a ton of free fonts there is an application called Windows Font Explorer to help you view your fonts

1001 Free Fonts

This is a great little app that can save you lots of time and frustration when restoring a computer from scratch.  I just rebuilt an old laptop and spent a fair amount of time hunting around for the drivers as we lost the restore CD some time ago.  This software makes a quick backup of all your drivers and then you can store that somewhere and if you need them just popin the CD and restore the old drivers!

Driver Backup

So I moved my Wordpress install to the root folder of my website, which was a huge pain (basically I created a new install and then imported and dragged everything over).  But everything is up and working now but the only issue I had was for my Forum.  Since my forum sits in a password protected directory (thanks webcrawlers trying to register!) it was causing a 404 error when I tried to go to the folder.  It seems that it does’t handle a 401 authentication correctly and incorrectly throws a 404 error after the redirect.  All you need to do is add one line to the .htaccess file in Wordpress’s main directory.  Below is the line you need to add:

ErrorDocument 401 "Unauthorized access"

It’s that simple and that will make the directory function as desired

This is probably one of the biggest things that I struggle with when tweaking a CSS file.  What font-family to use and how it will work.  Well finally I ran across a website FontTester that will allow you to choose the font family and see the difference.  This should save a whole bunch of time when creating or editing new sites.