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Password Your Web Server Pages with .htaccess Editor
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Running a home web server and need to lock it up? Want to set up standard hosting for multiple sub-domains? Don’t worry about tinkering with Apache server’s arcane .htaccess file, just tell the .htaccess Editor webapp what you’re looking for. The site’s interface is a good deal better than many of its ilk, meaning you can usually guess what it’s asking for and why. For budding web tinkerers and those with their own storage space, .htaccess Editor is a time-saving tool worth checking out. More »
Get a scorecard for your website with Website Grader
1:51PM Sarah Stokely | HubSpot’s Website Grader is a web-based tool which analyses and scores your website against a number of criteria, and provides you with a report card flagging areas you may wish to improve. By filling out a web form which asks for your URL, keywords related to your blog and optionally any websites you compete against, it generates a report on your site. You need to supply an email address as it mails the link to you.The score it generates grades your website against a number of things including website traffic, search engine optimisation, social
popularity (via social bookmarking and sites like Digg) and a wide range of other factors. It also provides some very basic
advice on how you can improve your website’s performance.One thing which tickled me is that it rated Lifehacker’s readability as “advanced/doctoral” level. I had no idea we were so rarified! I’d better duck back to uni and get that PhD. :)
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FTP for Free with Cyberduck
9:00AM Kyle Pott | Mac OS X only: Manage your FTP connections for free with Cyberduck. If you hate the idea of paying $30 for Transmit, give Cyberduck a whirl. Although not quite as advanced as Transmit, Cyberduck is nothing to scoff at. In addition to having an easy to use interface, Cyberduck also integrates with Growl and has a dashboard widget for easy drag-and-drop uploading. I’ve been using Cyberduck to manage my websites for about six months without any trouble. Cyberduck is a free download for Mac OS X only. Thanks, sgodun! Cyberduck More »
Get Lost in Translation Sites
2:00AM Wendy Boswell | The web makes it possible to search for documents written in every conceivable language, but what if you don’t actually know the language you find that special somethin’ written in? No worries—there are plenty of online translation services that can give you anything from just a good idea to a complete translation of what you’re looking at. More »
