By now, we have a basic vuejs app which can fetch data from a WordPress API using axios and can display the data.The aim of this series, however is to build an app and get it on the app stores. To achieve this, we are going to use cordova. Cordova Read more…
Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: Os Detection Techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is Read more…
It turns out that adding cordova to an existing vue app is pretty easy – if only I’d known this before trying at least 10 different ways: First, make sure your environment is setup npm install -g cordovanpm install -g @vue/cli clone your existing repo and cd to its folder Read more…
I have decided to start studying towards a CISSP and / or an OSCP, as part of that I saw an excellent blog post recommending to go through a lot of CTF challenges from vulnhub.com. These are my Kioptrix walkthrough guides / findings and observations for each of the first Read more…
This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
Migrate music from itunes to google play. 1) goto play.google.com/music 2) sign up (the free service is fine, when it asks for a payment, you can select ‘google play balance’) 3) go here for instructions form google 4) go here: to get the google music manager to upload your tracks Read more…
Tracking cryptocoin price changes can become difficult when you have more than a couple of coins. Fortunately there are a few altcoin exchanges and apps out there which can help you. I’ll do a breakdown of some of the apps I use. Blockfolio Blockfolio has a ton of data available, Read more…
This is a short post about how to install macOS High Sierra GM on your mac. You will need an apple developer account. Log in to developer.apple.com Click the ‘install GM seeds’ link at the bottom right (or go to developer.apple.com/download) Click the download button next to the macOS High Read more…
Altcoins exploded in 2015. Minergate is a nice little site that offers various GUI clients for cpu and gpu mining. This is a short little post about mining altcoins in centos with minergate using the CLI client. Currently on minergate you can mine: Aeon [AEON] (aeon.cash) Bytecoin [BCN] (bytecoin.org) Bitcoin Read more…
Keyword research for organic SEO used to be easy. You didn’t need any keyword research tools. Put up some content, let google index the content and watch in analytics as the search terms people used piled in. Then make sure you optimised for the keywords that provided the most results. Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
This is a sponsored post. I dont usually do sponsored posts, but this one is different (I’m getting a hat for drawing attention to this, and I think its worthwhile). F1 isn’t doing to well just now, two teams have filed for administration [caterham and marrusia] and are missing two Read more…
Jonathan Mitchell Portfolio About Me I have a BSc in Electronic Engineering, and an MSc in Advanced Computer Systems Development with Distinction. I was awarded the University Court Medal for excellence twice – in my PGDIP year, and in my MSc year. I am also a professionalmember of the British Read more…
If you have a website, then you most probably want google to index your sites content. the easiest way to do this is to submit a sitemap to google, using webmastertools. 1) Make sure you have a sitemap If you run wordpress then there are plenty of plugins that will Read more…
This is a very cool thing I just found in safari on osx mavericks. if you have your twitter account linked to your os [it asks you the first time you log in to twitter in safari] you will have a section in the sidebar when you open a new Read more…
Mailbox app imap folders disabled: Mailbox app is a great email app for the ipad. A major bonus also occurs when you link it to your dropbox account – you get a free 1gb extra space! When I tried to setup an account I encountered a problem though: a message Read more…
This post is a collection of things to form a best practice for mac security. 1) enable password after sleep or screensaver. settings > security > require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver. This will stop anyone who sneaks up on your machine when your not there from using Read more…
As you probably know, I use reeder on my iphone (and on my mac) to fetch all my rss feeds that I recently moved to feedly from google reeder. the fetching of posts has always been a bit slow for me when im trying to get the latest news right Read more…
This post will show you how to change the default email client in osx. it will let your chosen email client be used for both mailto: links and for the safari share with email feature. the actual setting for the default email client is in mail.app you need an account Read more…
Importing google reader starred items into pocket. As you all know google reader is being killed very soon. there are lots of google reader alternatives. I use reeder on my phone, ipad and mac to read all my rss feeds. it syncs with google reader and so I have built Read more…
This is an easy way to change the username of your wordpress admin account: login as your current admin user navigate to users > all users add a new user make sure the role is ‘administrator’ give the user the desired username that you want the next steps are: logout Read more…
This post will show you how to install redmine mylyn connector in zend studio or eclipse. firstly you need to configure redmine: update your redmine to the latest version [see instructions here] install redmine mylyn connector in redmine [see instruction here] once your redmine is updated and the plugin installed Read more…
When trying to login you get a message similar to cannot verify login with facetime or messages on osx. warning: this is quite a complex set of instructions. In the end I ended up creating a new user account on my mac and transferring my documents to the new user Read more…
Google two factor authentication is causing problems for osx. if you had your google account setup in previously, you only needed one password for all apps to use now, if you have googles two factor auth, then you need to setup passwords for each app. i think its from a Read more…
You can get the ios6 GM versions (they will be identical to the actual released versions when they are released next week) through a simple google search click here for the google results page so that im not linking to anything other than a public google search, just incase ;) Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your twitter contacts with your osx addressbook contacts. It will add the twitter account details of the people who are already in your addressbook to those entries. Goto System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars add your twitter account if not already Read more…
This post will show you how to delete mail in your gmail account from the mail.app in your iphone or ipad without archiving it. 1) make sure your iphone or ipad is setup to get your google mail using exchange 2) goto m.google.com/sync in safari on your iphone or ipad Read more…
Google have released an ‘author’ tag. the author tag is what enables sites to have a ‘byline’ in the google search results. this post will show you how to setup and test the new author tag so that google can (at their discretion) show a picture of you next to Read more…
What to do when your mac or ipad or iphone is stolen. This is a horrible post to have to write. My house just got broken in to and my macbook pro and my ipad got stolen, along with three other laptops. Here is a list of things I did, Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to facebook events using ical on your mac osx 1) login to your facebook account 2) goto events (in the left hand bar) 3) click on the maginifying glass in the top right 4) pick ‘export events’ 5) click on the url Read more…
This will show you how to use ichat or imessage to talk to msn on osx, without using the jabber method. go to cocoon.drinkbrainjuice.com download and install their (beta) plugin open ichat > preferences > accounts click ‘add’ pick ‘MSN’ from the list enter your details! You now have MSN Read more…
This will show you how to sync your notes from mail.app with gmail. [doing this will let you use gmail to sync the notes.app on your iphone / ipad with your mail.app on your mac] 1) setup a google account in mail.app. 2) any notes you enter will now appear Read more…
It took me a while to figure this one out, because I didnt have to do anything! i wanted my reminders from my reminders.app in my iphone and ipad to be in sync with each other and with my mac. i thought they might go into mail.app, or ical. turns Read more…
This short post is about sending a tweet from safari in iOS. on the page you want to tweet about, click the share icon at the bottom then click tweet you will then be presented with the tweet dialog. if you havent configured your twitter account yet then you will Read more…
In ios5 and above you can change the default email account – allowing you to send emails from a specified account. To do this goto: settings > mail, calendars and contacts scroll down and find ‘Default Account’ select it, and you are presented with a list of your configured mail Read more…
This will show you how to change the from: address when you send an email in iphone mail.app compose a new mail click on the address in the from: field it will now give you a list of the configured accounts pick the account you want to send form
Make snow leopard more like lion: you can use most of the features of osx lion / icloud right now. using google. mail: to sync all your mail on all your devices you need gmail. this first post will show you how to setup gmail in your macs mail.app this Read more…
This will show you how to enable the new wordpress.com stats in your self hosted wordpress blog :) they let you see pageviews per day, week, month. they also let you see search terms, etc go to your self hosted wordpress admin goto plugins > add new search for ‘jetpack’ Read more…
This is a cool tip that will show you the info about your mail account in mail.app on osx click on inbox press cmd+i look at the coolness….