Robs Tool

Squirt IT - Desktop Squirt Application

rob — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:42:03 +0000

Brenton from Invisible Tools has made us a squirt desktop application. Running on the Squirt API it allows you to run alot of tasks from your desktop without having to login to the squirt webpage. The application runs on the latest .Net framework build. This will be installed on install if your missing it.

This requires an active Squirt Membership

It will interact with your queues and your submissions. It will also help you quickly navigate your history.

Thanks Brenton!

Download Here

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History / Queue / Promote - Gui Changes

rob — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:24:36 +0000

The gui for squirt 2.0 has been integrated to the site now.

Squirt breaks things down quickly to show what you have in the queue, how many times its been there (Reoccuring Promo) and what was done.

We now also show the history. It breaks it down very similar to the queue but also has the details of the promotion. (This is a copy of the email that was sent to address)

Also, some sub categories were having issues (health,regional) those issues have been corrected.

SQUIRT 2.0 w/ API

rob — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:51:21 +0000

SQUIRT 2.0

Hello everyone. I want to take a moment to talk about the new platform. From a user perspective the new squirt platform allows you to control exactly what is happening. You can add your link to directories, social bookmarking sites, ping services, rolling link pages, and more. The platform from an administrative perspective is extremely expandable, easy to change and add in anything.

This is not a “change” or “update” from squirt 1.0. This is an entire recode of every aspect of squirt 1.0. There are a few things that have not been added yet the biggest is the breakdown analyzer. We are working on a graphical (flash) version of displaying all the information.

Like Squirt 1.0 the new squirt runs as a server daemon, making it a lean mean chug alot of information machine.

The Basic Feature List

- Directory Submission
- Base and Deep Web Pinging (20+ services)
- Reoccuring Promotion (15 day)
- Rolling link Pages
- Search Engine Bait
- Social Bookmarking ( Will be enabled July 31st )
- Emails report to the address you want (For Multiple - use a coma)

Oh, did I mention theres an API? [ documentation in members forum]

Also Squirt 1.0 will remain up for around 60 days.. The counts are independent.

So feel free to use both until its removed.

Now lets take a quick moment and talk about the direction we want to take this.

We are going to be expanding the social bookmarking aspect. Alot of the social bookmarking methods that were used in squirt 1.0 have been scrapped and recoded.

The analyze feature is being revamped and will be an August Update.

There are some administrative type things that we will be updating as well, those won’t receive a public notice.

We just setup a private “big proxy” server. We are in development of a Digg Tool. The tool will utilize 200 digg accounts to +digg your article at once. Which will give it a huge upward motion.

We have been busting our butts to greatly improve whats involved in squirt. If there is something you want to see revisted or even new projects please USE THE FORUM! We need to get alot more ideas floating around.

Autostumble

rob — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:09:19 +0000

We’ve negoitated a free account for all SQUIRT members to autostumble. This is a peice of .NET Framework software that can run on your computer that will automatically help do social bookmarking exchanges. Please look in the Vault at
Lab for creating your account. You can download the software in the Vault

Autostumble

So what is it then?

100% Automated Stumble Exchange Program
The program is designed to make your page go viral on StumbleUpon
Rank better in Google- get thousands of StumbleUpon visitors which will get you hundreds of natural links
Drive thousands of visitors to your page to earn $$$
Human emulation behaviour: Random URLs stumbled and stumbling delays prevent network detection
The program constantly runs in the system tray with a simple setup and single click
Save yourself hours of manual stumble exchanging and don’t risk being caught

How does it work?

Everything has been made as simple as possible. Once you’ve signed up and downloaded the program, it’s a simple matter of entering your user details, the URL you’d like to promote, then hitting the button!

Vault Changes

rob — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:25:12 +0000

The vault has now been integrated into part of the forum.. You’ll notice there are 4 sections at the moment.

Scripts

Misc

Databases

User Uploads

Members are now able to share things with the community. When you upload something into User Uploads it will only be viewable by you. These will then be approved and moved to the appropriate category.

There are a couple of volunteers that will help with this.

Please do not upload any copyrighted material as this will be deleted.

An interesting month.

rob — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:02:15 +0000

Well march was an interesting month.

As you know bluehatseo.com and robstool.com came under attack from massive DDOS attack.

Its actually still under attack now, however the ips in the bot network have been isolated.

The size of the attack was 65 million page requests per day per server. It took some time to isloate the ips and set firewall rules to move them out of normal traffic.

Nows the time for us to refocus.

We’re working on a user contributed vault, this will also revamp the current vault. Users will be able to upload things to share with the community. All non executeable things will be approved automatically.

However, we will be looking for volunteers to test scripts / executeables that will be uploaded. If interested in volunteering for that send email to me robertmoore(-at-)robstool(-period-)com

Looking forward to getting things done in april!

-Rob

Layout Kinks

rob — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:44:40 +0000

Well the squirt layout is now officially revamped.

Back to the grind!

-rob

Google Indexing Report

rob — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:06:14 +0000

In the Labs -> Google Indexing Report, you are able to get a detailed report of which pages on a domain have been indexed versus the pages that have not been indexed. The script crawls your site, then looks up each page and sees if it was in googles index. Once its done it displays the report which shows the percentage of pages indexed as well the numerical counts. It also gives you the list of pages that are not in the index.

The pages not in the index are pages that should be submitted to squirt. This will help ad multiple starting points into squirt.

Also this pulls from the Google SOAP api which doesn’t always give the exact same information as the google.com search. Its also worth mentioning that google has hundreads of datacenters and the results vary from datacenter to datacenter.

A note about other updates.

It has been brought to my attention that there is software out that does a good job of transfering files from one ftp site to another ftp site. The http://www.wsftp.com/products/ws_ftp_professional/ WS FTP Professional allows you to connect to two ftp sites and transfer between those.

The next scheduled update is the “limited” member based invitation system.

Also for the Feb 15th update - forgot to make a post on this.. The template is undergoing some major overhauls.. Some of these are still being ironed out..

Forum Revamped

rob — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:10:24 +0000

Forum Revamped

Users are now able to send private messages, mark threads as read, view profiles set profiles, the works.

All forum accounts have been recreated.

Your password is the same password you use to login to squirt.

All the old posts are saved in the forum, however new posts that you create will be editable.

The original problem was the way the forum was created, the users were created by putting them directly into the vbb.user table. Although this gave basic functionality the method has been changed to use the internal methods of vbb to create the user. This allows users alot more of the vbb functionality.

Again if you have any issues send email to robertmoore(at)robstool(dot)com.

Thanks guys!

Stay tuned for our update on Feb 15th.

Entire Squirt Process Changed - Laying the groundwork

rob — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:15:52 +0000

The SQUIRT processes have been changed from simple scripts to now running as a server daemon.A server daemon is a process on the server that runs 24hrs a day / 7 days a week. Unlike a cronjob that checks every 1 minute, the new setup runs all the time and looks for new submissions all the time. This is a major step in our overhaul of the squirt process.

How does this affect the squirt?

By it running one executable instead of starting a new process for each task it reduces the CPU load by about 80%. One of our major hurdles with squirt is dealing with the CPU power of various servers. Although the SQUIRT server is very powerful machine, the amount of checks that each part of squirt analyzes uses up the most powerful of servers. With the new reduced load this allows us to ADD new features into the squirt promotion techniques.We are currently working on taking the submitted keywords attached to each submission and having some randomly grammatically structured sentences generated for each submission. This will help on some of the network sites that we have developed for squirt members. These network sites and the upcoming generated content will help add a unique content factor to each submission. This will also help get the submissions through faster.You will also see the daemon status in your user panel. It shoes the status of the Linux service such as running or not running and also the version of the service that is running.

What are we working on adding into squirt membership?

Now that we have optimized the squirt processes on a server mechanical level to the most efficient way known to us, we have opened up some doors to adding in some more CPU intensive promotion techniques. [

Forum Reconstruction using new structure - (This will fix Private Messaging, Post Edits and many other things within the forum) [Expected End of January]

A new Template - (For the entire squirt process) - An Easier to navigate interface [ Expected 15th of February]

A clone script - Insert a source FTP SITE and path, and then insert a few destinations, the script then clones the source to the destination, sets all permissions the same. [Expected End of February]