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Yahoo! Messenger Hidden Emoticons
Surprise your friends with these hidden characters.
You won’t find these in the emoticon menu, but you can send them by typing the keyboard shortcuts directly into your message.
Find the emoticon image you want to generate in the first column, then read the second column to find the character combination you type to generate that emoticon. Screen reader and aural browser users may need to disable emoticon reading and enable all punctuation reading temporarily, or read the second column character-by-character, in order to hear or braille these character combination. (more)
Your Creative Genius Mindset: The Essential Qualities for “Outside the Box” Thinking
To be creative, is to have the capacity to think freely, openly, without limitations or constraints about problems and challenges confronting our life reality. When we are creative, we tend to see opportunities and possibilities that we would normally filter out of our personal experience. Creativity allows us to think outside of the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and free flowing manner. (more)
WordPress 3.0.4 Important Security Update
Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download on WordPress, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” (more)
CURL replacement for file_get_contents
Easy way to CURL as easy as file_get_contents in PHP script.
function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
What To Do When Your Website Goes Down
Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of course… Okay, speak to you soon… Bye.” The call may have been followed by some cheesy ’80s rock ballad coming from the speaker phone, interrupted by “Thank you for holding. You are now caller number 126 in the queue.” That’s your boss calling the hosting company’s 24 hour “technical support” line. (more)
Hack to Search and View Free Live Webcam with Google Search
Web cam or webcam (web camera) is a live and real-time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video calling or video conferencing application. Webcam is increasingly used as web surveillance cams to monitor security, traffic beach, office, and other sensitive areas. Some of these webcams or networked cameras have Web interfaces that allows owners to view the image or video captured via Internet, and even direct the cameras’ motorized pan-and-tilt or zoom mechanisms. (more)
Google Hacking and Password Cracking
Google Hacking
This is by far the easiest hack of all. It really is extraordinary what you can find in Google’s index. And here’s Newsflash #1: you can find a wealth of actual usernames and passwords using search strings.
Copy and paste these into Google:
…and this one is just priceless… (more)

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