This is a very simple spam prevention mod for phpBB2.  The idea is that you define specific words that come up often in spam and it will block messages containing those words.

There is already a “spam words” mod out there, but with this mod you don’t need to make any database changes and you can set how many times the words need to be matched before blocking the message as spam.  Although, there isn’t an admin panel to go with this mod so settings need to be changed in the code.

Features:

• Checks if a post includes any designated spam words
• Set how many times those words need to be found to mark as spam
• Set how many posts a user needs to have their post checked
• PM a designated account with details about the post

Click here to download the mod

It has come up in the past where a website was down for me, but not for the rest of the world, or vice versa.  I found a nice and super simple website that will check if it can view a page.  That’s all it does!  And that works for me.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Another somewhat similar website is a free resource that just pings your site every hour to make sure that it’s online.  It will send you e-mail notifications whenever your site goes down so you can bug tech support ASAP 🙂

http://siteuptime.com/

I tried out this interesting little game yesterday and it was a good time waster.  You team up with three other people and solve puzzles.  When you solve a puzzle the person next to you gains more time to complete their puzzles.  It worked out pretty well, I had a few people exit during the game, but overall I was surprised how well it worked.

http://team.forsvarsmakten.se/english/

I recently found the Wimpy FLV player and downloaded it for Mac OSX.  I played my FLVs with no problem and all I needed to do was unpack it 🙂

I have a copy of VLC player which should play the FLVs, but it hasn’t been doing the trick 🙁  I’m probably just missing some codecs, but Wimpy FLV player was a bit easier to set-up.

http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html