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vuejs

Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 7

By now in out Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API journey, 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 Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API series, however is to build Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years6 months ago
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OS Detection Techniques

Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques – Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, 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. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years10 months ago
Development

Adding cordova to an existing vue app

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 git Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 months ago
Kali Linux

Kioptrix Walkthrough Guide

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years9 months ago
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WordPress Security

This is a WordPress Security 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. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years10 months ago
Android

Migrate music from itunes to google play

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years2 years ago
Alt coins

Altcoin Exchanges and apps

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years2 years ago
Osx

How to install macOS High Sierra GM

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 years ago
Alt coins

Mining altcoins in centos with minergate

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 years ago
SEO

Keyword research tools

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 5 years4 years ago
Apache

Configuring free SSL certs with Letsencrypt in centos

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 5 years2 years ago
Formula 1

Brabham Digital

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years6 years ago
Development

Portfolio – Jonathan Mitchell MSc BSc MBCS

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 professional member of the Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years6 months ago
SEO

How to submit your site to google using a sitemap

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years7 years ago
Safari

Very cool tip for osx mavericks and twitter shared urls

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Mailbox app imap folders disabled – fix

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years6 years ago
Security

Best practice for mac security

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to make reeder faster at loading new posts

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years ago
Mail.app

How to change the default mail client in osx

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Social networking

Importing google reader starred items into pocket

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Wordpress

An easy way to change your wordpress admin username

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Development

Install redmine mylyn connector in zend studio or eclipse

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years2 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to fix cannot verify login with facetime

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Addressbook / contacts

Google two factor authentication is causing problems for osx.

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
News

Get ios6 gm gold master without developer account now

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years7 years ago
Addressbook / contacts

How to sync your twitter followers with your osx addressbook contacts

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to delete gmail mail from iphone mail.app

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
SEO

Google author tag

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Security

What to do when your mac or ipad or iphone is stolen

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years5 years ago
Ical

How to subscribe to facebook events using ical mac osx

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years6 years ago
Ichat / messages

Using ichat or imessage to talk to msn on osx. without jabber!

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years6 years ago
Mail.app

Syncing mail.app notes with google gmail

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Ical

Iphone ios5 reminders in ical with icloud

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Sending a tweet from safari in iOS

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Change default email account address in iphone and ipad

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years7 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to change the from address in iphone mail.app

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

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Osx

Make snow leopard more like lion

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Development

WordPress stats with jetpack plugin

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Mail.app

Get mail account info from mail.app osx

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….

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago

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