Author: Olly

  • JustAircooled Parts, Nothing Else!

    We’ve always loved cars – Dave and I started Maxxd.com over ten years ago, and have both owned a wide range of vehicles including VW Caddys, MK1/MK2/MK3 Golfs, MK2/MK4/MK5 Polos and many other vehicles inbetween. Our hearts have always donned a VW symbol, so when we wanted to launch a new online store it was obvious what we should sell!

    We created the theme initially for a customer – the job turned sour and the customer vanished without paying – so rather than sit with a huge financial loss and cry into our weetos we decided to stick the theme up for sale for $10 and use it ourselves, too.

    So, we’re proud to present;Just Aircooled Parts and Spares

    www.Aircooled-Direct.co.uk

    Despite what other (similar looking) websites may say, we really are VW enthusiasts and hope to help many of you make your project cars, buses and vans into the vehicles of your dreams!

    Our team have picked up a bay window camper to use as a project car for our new venture, we will keep you updated with photos and progress!

  • How to read the Sun website for free

    Paying to read content? What is this? A dictatorship?

    Ok, so the sun have locked their site down and despite me not actually reading the sun – i wanted to read an article today and it said i needed to pay…

    SO

    If you’d like to read articles for free, just visit the page in Google Chrome, press F12 to open the console;

    Look in the bottom right

    Press the cog icon in the bottom right, and then select Overrides, and set it to Googlebot.

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    As soon as you’ve written this in, refresh the sun window and it will show the full article.

    The Sun will require google to index the content, so restricting them from viewing it like they did to me doesn’t make sense.

    This simply exploits that fact, and makes the Sun website think you are the googlebot.

    You can also install browser extensions to change your User Agent – as if you close the developer window and browse about after using this method, it will reset eventually. Using an extension means this isn’t the case.

    Happy Days.

    Disclaimer: I am providing this guide for information purposes only and is not to be used in the real world. Anyone using this to view the sun website for free is doing so off their own back and is nothing to do with me.

  • iBallz Product Testing – Lobbing the S3 around the room

    Broken Tech :(I recently witnessed a friend of mine giving one of their kids their iPhone to play with… Minutes later he dropped it and broke the screen. They then proceeded to give him the iPad so he could carry on playing his game – to keep him from causing mischief!

    Minutes later…. iPad dropped – screen cracked!

    I really felt for them, they just wanted their son to stay out of trouble and they were left with £100’s of repairs…

    This got us thinking… Surely there is a solution for this?

    And low and behold, we found one!

    Presenting… iBallz!

    We bought some from iBallz.co.uk and tested them with my work phone before we tested on a more expensive tablet…

    They work so well – its untrue! Don’t get me wrong, they are not the most pretty of things to be sticking on the corners of your iPad or tablet, but do you want to protect the screen or not? LOL

    At £16 with free delivery, they are a steal too!

    NB: The average iPad screen repair starts at £100!

  • Easy Timthumb Solution – Fix it once and for all!

    We’ve been plagued with issues due to using timthumb, which is a image resizing script used by millions of people all over the world.

    Despite updating the version we were using many moons ago, we found that certain sites were still being exploited, and it seems that no matter how many updates we did to the script, people keep finding ways to screw it over.d

    So DJB being the wizard that he is, during his morning energy drink we realised that we could quite simply solve this issue, by dropping this in the .htaccess file in the timthumb cache directory and temp folder

    php_flag engine off

    It just stops PHP file from being run in the directories its been put in – meaning that timthumb can never be used to screw peoples websites over, ever again.

    He actually got the idea from one of the people who screwed us over exploiting timthumb!

    Thanks, haxx0rs!