http://www.whatsmyip.org Keep up to date with all of the newest happenings on WhatsMyIP.org Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:30:18 -0500 en http://www.whatsmyip.org/text-to-code-ratio/ 4649e573 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:57:53 EST We've got a new tool on the site, a Text to Code ratio tool. This tool will scan a web page, and tell you what percentage of the html is actual text content. This tool can be very useful in fine tuning your SEO. http://www.whatsmyip.org 2872677a Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:04:00 EST We are currently wrapping up a major site upgrade. When complete, the site will be fully HTML5-compliant. 'Standards-compliance mode' for everyone! Well, not everyone. We have officially dropped support for Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. These web browsers are simply too broken to continue supporting. Users of these browsers (which you obviously are not) are being directed to a spiffy 'please upgrade your browser' page. We've gone through every tool on this site, and enhanced them with even more jQuery/AJAX, HTML5 audio, and enhanced server-side PHP. The result are tools have a much more 'integrated' feel, more robust error checking, nice smooth animation, and great audio-ui feedback. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsmylp/id414797518?mt=8 2d222064 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:13:51 EST Just a reminder to all of the iPhone and iPod Touch users out there. We now have our own free iPhone app available on the App Store. The app gets great reviews, but it hasn't been getting very many downloads. I'm a little confused by this, so I wanted to remind you all to go check it out. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsmylp/id414797518?mt=8" target="_blank">WhatsMyIP App</a> http://www.whatsmyip.org 9a3fe160 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:13:26 EST Today is WhatsMyIP's 10th birthday. Thanks to everyone that has used the site over the years. 10 years ago when I registered this domain name, I never would have guessed that 10 years later, I'd have a website like this, getting all this traffic! Thanks WhatsMyIP users!<br> <br> In honor of our 10th year, here's a link to our archive.org page: <u><a href='http://ipsite.org/z70'>http://ipsite.org/z70</a></u><br> This website didn't start out being super-awesome. It got there slowly, over time. http://www.whatsmyip.org/shorturls/ 4319a26d Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:02:50 EST We just finished up our newest tool. It's the Short URL Machine. You've probably seen them before, on Twitter or Facebook. You paste a long URL in, and you get a very short URL out, that forwards to the long URL. Well we just made our own simple version of the tiny URL tool. It uses our other domain name, ipsite.org; the domain name, plus the new-ness of our tool, means that we have extremely short URLs. Another great use for a short URL tool, is when 'funny' characters in your URL are interfering with 'data detectors' that are supposed to automatically sense URLs and make them clickable. Most email programs do this. Well if you use a short URL from this site, it should always be detected properly! Also coming soon to our mobile tool, so you can shorten URLs right on your phone. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsmylp/id414797518?mt=8 f4046369 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:36:29 EST Our new iPhone app just got approved! You can now download it through iTunes. It's a native version of our mobile webapp. It's a handy little app, containing all of the best tools on the site. Oh and of course, it's free! http://www.whatsmyip.org/random_websites/ 2735b399 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:37:29 EST I just added a new feature to the site, it's called the Random Website Generator. Check it out. It lets you view web sites chosen randomly from a pool of over 4 million. This can be very handy for many things, like: killing time, testing DNS/network connectivity (loading uncached-content), brainstorming for web designers, and I'm sure many more reasons I haven't thought of yet. Now this tool isn't totally new, I actually merged it in from one of my existing websites, www.randomwebsite.net; However now that it's on *this* site, people will actually see it and use it. http://touch.whatsmyip.org 9028729d Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:19:40 EST So it turns out, that half the tools on our mobile WebApp have been broken for weeks. Since we changed the domain name of the webapp from iphone.whatsmyip.org to touch.whatsmyip.org. Ooops. Everything should be working now. But you guys shouldn't be afraid to email the site if things are broken! This site is a one-man operation, I don't always know there's a problem. http://www.whatsmyip.org/fuspam-akismet-php/ 2d953da5 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:27:30 EST Akismet is a service that blocks comment spam. You can use it to protect your blog or other webapp from being attacked by spammers. There was a PHP class you could use to access the service, but it was very buggy. So we wrote our own simple PHP function to access the Akismet service. It's very simple to use and very reliable.<br> <br> You need to get a valid Key before you can use the service. And to get that, you need to sign up for a wordpress blog account. If you are new to akismet, you should check out their site first and get familiar with how their service works. If you are a current akismet user, and you get spam messages slipping through your script regularly, you might like this script. Just plug it in, in place of the old PHP class. Make a few slight modifications to your PHP code and you should be good to go. http://iphone.whatsmyip.org 9a88fca1 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:36:52 EST Our Fios WEP key calculator WebApp was so popular, we went ahead and built a whole new WebApp containing all of our best tools. Point your iPhone to <a href='http://iphone.whatsmyip.org'>http://iphone.whatsmyip.org</a> and you'll get super easy access to all of our best stuff. You can bookmark the WebApp right to your home screen too, because we drew up a nice touch-icon. Works on iPod Touches too, you just need to be connected to a wifi network.