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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, 1 year3 months ago
Turing Fest 2019

Security – Tackling the hard problems

This is a quick chat from David Irvine, CEO of MadeSafe The world forces us to change. Private and public info is everywhere now. It was fine, till the companies started to map the data and use it to craft their algorithms. Server based infrastructure is the easiest way that Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 1 year8 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 years7 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 Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years3 months ago
Website crawler software kali linux
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Website crawler software kali linux

Spidering a web application using website crawler software in kali linux There are lots of tools to spider a web application (an companies which are based on this tech, eg google) short list of tools to help you spider a site (eg for creating a sitemap for SEO, or recon Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years5 months ago
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Burpsuite beginners tutorial – how to use burp suite

This is a burp suite beginners tutorial. Burpsuite is a collection of tools, written in Java used to perform various network security related tasks. Burpsuite can be used as a basic http proxy to intercept traffic for analysis and playback, a web application security scanner, a tool to perform automated Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years6 months ago
Alt coins

Mining monero in osx using xmring

There are a couple of things you need for mining monero in osx using xmring: 1) A monero wallet (get one from mymonero.com) 2) Homebrew (brew.sh) mining monero in osx using xmring: dependencies You have to make sure you have homebrew installed (so that you can install the xmrig dependencies), Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years2 years ago
Commandline

How to turn off mail for every domain in plesk

Here is a little script that will turn off mail for every domain in plesk! I use it as part of an automated domain creation script to be doubly sure that mail is sent from external mail services and isn’t received internally in the plesk machine (preventing users getting their Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years2 years ago
Social networking

WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts

WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts This is a short post about setting up WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts. Buffer is an excellent service that allows posting to multiple social media sites (twitter, Facebook, google+, linkedin) If you run a wordpress site then there are Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years4 years ago
Development

Xml sitemap to html – simple bash script

I have made a simple bash script to convert your xml sitemap to html anchor tags e.g. For importing into Firefox or chrome bookmarks (or for any other use you can think of) It has been tested on linux mint and osx mavericks, but it should work wherever you have Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to enable iCloud keychain on iPhone and ipad

ICloud keychain is an excellent feature in osx mavericks and ios7.To enable iCloud keychain on iPhone and ipad: class=”alert alert-success”>If you have iOS < 7.0.3 Install iOS 7.0.3 [preferences > general > software update] As part of the iOS 7.0.3 setup you will be asked to add a passcode if Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Ios7 fix iMessage not sending to your cell number

I had an issue with people trying to send iMessages to my phone number. for some reason ios7 had set iMessages to only send to my email address and not to my phone number. to fix it, I had to get the help from my boss at work :) its Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years6 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to show the time an sms text message was sent on iPhone

Its not easy to show the time an sms text message was sent from your device, or sent from someone else to you. In ios7 and above its a little easier to get the time an sms text message was sent or received, there is a little trick to it (like there is for Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 7 years5 years ago
Security

How to encrypt your mac harddrive with filevault

Enabling encryption on your macs harddrive is easy. goto system preferences > security and privacy > filevault click the padlock in the bottom left hand corner type your password click ‘turn filevault on’ you will then get a recovery key. you can write this down, print it, email it, whatever Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years7 years ago
Iphone and ipad

How to enter a carriage return on an iPhone (new line)

This post will show you how to enter a carriage return on an iPhone. Usually with an iPhone the return key will submit the current action. eg if you are writing an SMS then hitting return will send it. How to Enter a carriage return on an iPhone There is Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years4 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Quickly view and edit drafts in iphone / ipad mail.app

This is an excellent tip I saw in one of my rss feeds over the christmas break: quickly view and edit drafts in iphone / ipad mail.app open the mail app on your iphone / iPad press and hold the compose new mail icon in the top right hand corner Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Albums

Find new music with recommendations based on your itunes library

Beathound.com is a cool service that will send you recommendations on what music is missing from your collection. it analyses your itunes xml file and emails you recommendations based on the artists and albums that you have in your collection. if it finds new releases by artists that you already Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Addressbook / contacts

Send email / imessage / facetime directly from addressbook contacts

In osx mountain lion you can send imessage messages (or google chat / facebook chat if thats setup in your messages app) directly from the addressbook / contacts app open addressbook / contacts find the contact you want to message click on the ‘mobile’ or ‘phone’ or ’email’ tag next Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx

How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx Once you have setup your mac and iOS device to use the same method to send and receive iMessages then anyone who sends you an iMessage (ether to your phone number or email address) will have that message delivered to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Osx

How to send audio from mac to airplay speakers

This is an excellent feature of mountain lion. you can send your audio output to airplay enabled devices (apple tv or airplay speakers) to send the audio to an airplay device just alt_click on the volume icon in your task bar. you will see a menu with all the airplay Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Osx

How I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a macbook air 2012

I upgraded from lion to mountain lion on my Macbook air 2012. This is how I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a 2012 macbook air. As soon as I installed mountain lion I instantly noticed that the battery life was terrible. Instead of 8-9 hours I was getting Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years6 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to show contacts list in messages app osx imessage

Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years6 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, 9 years5 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Change order of apps in iphone or ipad notification center

This will show you how to change order of apps in iphone or ipad notification center for groups of apps in your ipad or iphone notification center. It helps when you have lots of apps that send lots of notifications and you only want the important ones on top. goto Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years5 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, 9 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, 9 years8 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Icloud automatically send purchased itunes content to your iphone and ipad

This will show you how to download content purchased in tunes automatically in your iphone and ipad [and in itunes on your computer too] the new icloud features look cool. they enable you to have all the things you buy in itunes available on all of your devices. automatically. to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Commandline

Cool useful linux and osx commandline tools

This post will show you a few of the cool useful linux and osx commandline tools that I use every day. They are mostly available for osx, but some require fink or brew to install on a mac. # ssh available by default on osx and linux. lets you log Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
SEO

Adding basecamp todos and milestones from email

Basecamp is an excellent tool to help manage projects. any type of project. they have an account that lets you have one project for free – this post explains adding basecamp todos and milestones from email :) one problem with basecamp is the time it takes to setup todo lists and Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Free carrier unlock for uk o2 iphone without jailbreak

Free carrier unlock for uk o2 iphone without jailbreak. this will show you how to unlock your iphone by going to the O2 website and filling in a form. its free for contract users and it costs £15 for pay as you go users. I got an email the other Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Social networking

Using wordpress and hellotxt.com to update social networks

Automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
Social networking

Is myspace still dead? and does it matter?

Myspace has been dead for a long time. for everyone except bands. whenever you go to a local gig, or see a flyer for a local gig you will see the bands myspace. Is myspace still dead? myspace isnt being used to network, its being used as a glorified mailing list Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
Development

Using wordpress and twitterfeed to update social networks

Automatic facebook and twitter status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to facebook and twitter every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social network accounts the first Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years8 years ago
Commandline

How to install rkhunter on a linux box and setup a cron job =)

This blog post is quite easy, it shows you how to install rkhunter on a linux machine and how to configure rkhunter to run periodically using a cron job. RKhunter (rootkit hunter) is a program that takes a fingerprint of installed files and directories in your machine during install and Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
Development

Automatic recurring facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar

this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 years5 years ago
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Nessus tutorial – Vulnerability scanning with Nessus

This is a short nessus tutorial to help you get to grips with nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner. Nessus can scan your assets for network security vulnerabilities. Nessus allows you to be proactive in securing your base so that all your base belongs to you :D Nessus tutorial quick Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years8 months ago
Legal stuff

What the digital economy bill means for you as a copyright holder #debill

What the digital economy bill means for you as a copyright holder. I am a holder of copyright. I do sell music online. this new digital economy bill ( #debill ) is going to change the way the internet works. forever. the internet is our legacy to the children, not Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years5 years ago
Iphone and ipad

Syncing all your webmail email accounts to gmail

This tutorial is about syncing all your webmail email accounts to gmail, and then sync that to your apple mail.app and your iphone the hardest part about having so many email accounts and social networking accounts is finding the time to log into them all and check for mail and Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years5 years ago
SEO

Using wordpress and ping.fm to update social networks

Update: ping.fm is pretty much dead. use the twitterfeed method here instead automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years8 years ago

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