Regex is a useful tool for string manipulation. Free online regex testing tool. Reg Expression: Modifiers: Replacement Value: Place your string below: Your converted string: Helpful Regular Expressions Matches any 10 digit phone number format. The explanation of the regular expression is shown in the image below. Click on the image to...
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This is pretty simple right now. Just hit refresh and the password below will change. Right now it’s just making a 16 character password that I use for passwords that I don’t use very much but want them...
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There are a bunch of services that offer to let you know what your IP address is, but here’s another. Your IP Address is 54.196.72.162 And just for fun, here’s your user agent (browser identity) CCBot/2.0 (http://commoncrawl.org/faq/)
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It’s been a while since I’ve put out a free online tool, so here’s one that will encode your string into base64 and then decode it. The great thing about base64 is that you can use base64 strings in url’s and it won’t interfere with the url, meaning question marks, slashes, etc won’t break your variables. I like to encrypt sensitive values if I have to publicly give out url’s to pages that take dynamic...
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About MD5 hashes/checksums No matter what you call it, either hash or checksum, MD5 is a way to get a smaller representation of a larger string. The idea is to get a unique value that represents the whole. It’s like a UPC of a product for a file. If you generate a hash of a file, then send it to your friend, they will generate the same hash of the file if it has not been altered. If it has been altered in the slightest, the hash will...
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Purpose of the Google +1 counter Last week, a member of the SEOMoz community asked whether there was a tool to count up all the Google +1’s across an entire domain. There didn’t seem to be an available tool, so I put together a way to do this by putting a list of URL’s into a text box, then having all the URLs checked for plus ones. That tool can be found at Google +1 counter for list of URLs. Now I’ve taken that tool...
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