Top-level domain root servers

Root Server Domain’s Root Servers IP’s Location A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 198.41.0.4 – VeriSign, VA, USA B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.228.79.201 – Information Sciences Institue, CA, USA C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.33.4.12 – Performance Systems International Inc., DC, USA D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 128.8.10.90 – Optional Design Group, CA, USA E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.203.230.10 – NASA, AL, USA F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.5.5.241 – Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., CA, USA G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.112.36.4… Continue reading Top-level domain root servers

URL basics

The URL (universe resource locator) makes a request: http://user:password@www.thedomain.org:8080/folder/file.html?var=value#anchor http – protocol (http, https, ftp, usenet, etc…) user – user name for server (useful for viewing files via FTP in a browser window) password – password for server www – subdomain thedomain – domain org – top-level domain 8080 – port (default for http is… Continue reading URL basics

Offload scripting to SQL

Databases are still an intrical part of any project, be it web or desktop. But more commonly developers are using the main language of choice for sorting out simple database queries. Most databases today are SQL-based and they support SQL the language in some format. It is common practice today to use simple SQL-queries to… Continue reading Offload scripting to SQL

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Web-API’s, free-services that help promote your business

Offering web-API’s is a standard, and offering a wide-variety is becoming the new standard. API (Application Programming Interfaces) offer a free service too any user (usually subscription-based) via web. Examples of web-API’s: Google Maps UPS shipping FedEx shipping Flickr Yahoo! Traffic – text service What are the advantages of these API’s? Your service can now… Continue reading Web-API’s, free-services that help promote your business

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3 Sites to get Apps for OSX

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ — Great for utilities and games http://www.macupdate.com/ — Supa for staying updated on apps, but also good for freeware http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ — A lot like macupdate, with more developed freeware

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Free App for backing-up in OS X

Backing-up is something that everyone who has important data should be doing. Archiving onto CD/DVD is effective, but continual back-up is important. Lacie, the maker of external Hard-drives and disk-drives, own a freeware app called SilverKeeper which is pretty timely and effecient at backing-up. It offers schedule back-ups, that can exclude keyword files, password protect… Continue reading Free App for backing-up in OS X

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Google Filetype & Flash

Same as the following article, the “Google Hack” filetype, which is hardly a “hack”, we can hunt the web for .fla files and .swf files… amazing!! All you gotta do is figure out what type of FLA are you looking for? Let’s say snow. The kids, they love the snow. So type the following into… Continue reading Google Filetype & Flash

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