ohryan.ca

A Web Developer in Winnipeg

Category: Websites

  • Autotrader.ca, Please Fix Your Search.

    Autotrader.ca your search is not very good! I just did a search for “all cars newer than 2000, between $2500 and $5000 excluding damaged vehicles, in descending order by Kms.” Sounds pretty complex when you write it out in English, but that should be a fairly straight-forward SQL query. Came across a couple of pretty…

  • OpenDNS For A Week

    In case you haven’t heard, OpenDNS (wikipedia) is a free DNS service designed to improve your surfing experience, or as their PR blur puts it: …is a safer, faster, smarter and more reliable way to navigate the Internet. I decided to try it out for a week, replacing my ISP’s default DNS servers. All-in-all I…

  • WhyFireFoxIsBlocked is wrong! Adblock Plus is 100% Detectable!

    whyfirefoxisblocked.com does not know what they’re talking about. Ad Block Plus is 100% lame and 100% detectable. The following code detects ad block plus: index.html: <script language=”javascript”> var disabled = false; </script> <script src=”something.js?thisistotrickyou=http://a.as-us.falkag.net/… dat/njf/41/domain.com/ros_pop_tag.js”></script> <script language=”javascript”> if(!disabled){ // DO SOMETHING HERE, like a redirect alert(“You Are Using Ad Block Plus or some other blocking…

  • Notcot.org: Novel Design

    I stumbled across notcot.org this morning via a post on freshome. Notcot describes itself as “…a place to collect and share fascinating images/links.” In theory it’s a digg for images, in practice most of the images are of unique product or website designs. The result is a site that’s much more interesting than what an…

  • Is Reddit better than Digg?

    This week has been a bit of a revival in terms of my computer usage, I’ve found a great photoshop alternative and now I think I may have found a Digg replacement. A few weeks ago my good buddy notian mentioned that he had started reading the social news site reddit, I’d heard of the…