New homepage design
I've redesigned ramin-hossaini.com. I've re-designed it to be a portal with links to my ever decreasing number of projects, and social-networks.
I've kept the design minimalistic and simple. Everything is on a single page with lots of AJAX and Javascript to go with it.
You might notice that there's a 'loader' too - I'm still contemplating keeping it or getting rid of it.
Update:Got rid of the annoying, buggy loader!
Gmail cleans up navigation
Big thanks to Gmail for taking out the annoying 'sites' from the menu:
Awesome.
Twitter tools
Tweetdeck
Personally, I think this is the best Twitter client/interface I've used so far - they also have a version available for the iPhone.
TweetStats
Find out more about your Tweeting-patterns:
Twitalyzer
Find out about your Twitter 'influence', 'signal', 'generosity', 'velocity' and 'clout':
TweetPsych
This is interesting - build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets:
Twitter Karma
Find out who isn't following you back and who you're not following:
BackTweets
Lets you search for links on twitter (even through URL shorteners). Useful if you want to see who's been tweeting about your website. They also have a WordPress plugin for it.
Twuffer
Twuffer is a "Twitter Buffer" that allows you to schedule tweets for a later time
Qwitter
Qwitter lets you know when someone has stopped following you
Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments. You can also follow me on twitter
Creating a tunnel and SOCKS proxy with Putty
Why?
- Secure a public WiFi connection
- Bypass country-specific-content websites (e.g sites that only allow users from the U.S)
- Connect to a remotely-secured MySQL database via localhost
It's pretty easy to do in Linux (and I think the command is pretty much the same in MacOS or with cygwin installed):
ssh -L localport:hostname:remoteport username@Server
This is how to do it with Putty
Open Putty and enter in the basics: the Server and port (22):
Next, create the tunnel. Enter the source port (in this example, it's 3306 - a MySQL port) and leave the destination field empty (not always left blank, but it works for most cases)
The tunnel will be open/active as soon as you've logged in. Obviously, you still have to set up your proxy settings in whatever application you're using (for those who don't know, 127.0.0.1 is 'localhost'):
I hate Internet Explorer
Any and all versions for that matter.
Text rendering in Firefox:
Text rendering in Google Chrome:
Text rendering in Internet Explorer 8 - WTF is this?!
Ok, I admit: I'm using the text-shadow property... but still!