ThoughtDump

A place where I dump interesting stuff I find on the internet that I want to come back to at a later time.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

WebProNews

http://feeds.feedburner.com/webpronews/all

VideoEgg

http://www.videoegg.com/

Special Effects Video

Found here:
http://onceuponawin.com/

LOLcats Maker

http://cheezburger.com/api/

Top 50 Firefox Addons

http://www.mozdev.org/projects/top50.html

System Host File

Redirects in your hosts file

This method is pretty straight forward, available on all systems and works with all browsers. The host file information on where to find a host in a network and maps host names to IP addresses.
You find this file in the following locations depending on your operating system:
Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista:
%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts %SystemRoot% in most cases is C:\WINDOWS
Linux/Unix:
/etc/hosts
Mac OS X:
/private/etc/hosts
You can edit this file with your favorite text editor and add the following lines to not display GoogleAds:
# [GoogleAds]
127.0.0.1  pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1  pagead2.googlesyndication.com #[Google AdWords]
127.0.0.1  adservices.google.com
127.0.0.1  imageads.googleadservices.com #[Ewido.TrackingCookie.Googleadservices]
127.0.0.1  imageads1.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads2.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads3.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads4.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads5.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads6.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads7.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads8.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads9.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  partner.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  www.googleadservices.com
# [Google Analytics]
127.0.0.1  apps5.oingo.com #[Microsoft.Typo-Patrol]
127.0.0.1  www.appliedsemantics.com
127.0.0.1  service.urchin.com #[Urchin Tracking Module]
127.0.0.1  ssl.google-analytics.com #[urchinTracker]
127.0.0.1  www.google-analytics.com #[Google Analytics]
This will redirect requests to your local machine. Check this http://everythingisnt.com/hosts if you want to block more advertising providers and spam sites.