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I’ve been working on some DIY tool kit buying guides, with Home Depot sponsoring the project (thank you!). This is something I’ve been eager to do for a while, and a couple of reader requests finally pushed this to the front of my attention.

There’s one tool that everyone needs – a good hammer.

I feel that, for most users, a 16 ounce claw hammer is a good place to start, and sometimes a 20 ounce rip claw hammer is a good alternative.

In part two of this series – 5 DIY Tool & Workshop Upgrades Everyone Will Love – I posted about the Husky 27 oz dead blow hammer, a lighter weight dead blow that I have been really enjoying using. That’s definitely on my recommendations list, but everyone also needs a good claw hammer.

I picked up a hammer on my first shopping run, and then a couple of others on my second and third trips to Home Depot.

There’s an inexpensive Anvil/Stanley – the hammers look to be identical but branded differently depending on the store – for testing out for the lowest budget tier, a Dewalt 20 oz I like as a general good-for-everyone quality recommendation (I’ve used this one before), and I also wanted to test out this Husky steel-handle hammer.

I should point out that I own or have tested nearly all of these tools before, but I needed current versions to ensure the their quality hasn’t changed, and for clean photo samples.

Frankly, this Husky steel handle claw hammer surprised me, as it wasn’t part of the plan.

I picked up an Estwing to mirror my preference for lighter nail hammers for more casual tasks, the Dewalt as the more premium experience option, and the entry-level wood-handled hammer as the “for the person who doesn’t want to spend a lot” option. If any further recommendations or suggestions were needed, I have a pile of highly-regarded hammers in my own kit and in my test box from last year.

There were two rows of this Husky hammer at the store, but I didn’t see the price. I picked one up and wow, it’s lighter than I thought. A couple of air swings later, and wow, I like the balance of this hammer.

Not all 16 oz hammers feel the same, this one had a lighter feel to it, or rather a lighter and easier swing.

It looks like the hammers were just put out, and they were waiting for a pricing tag. I looked it up on my phone – $10.

$10? That cannot be right. $10 for a fiberglass-handle hammer? Maybe, but that one’s $12. This steel-handled hammer cannot be $10.

I added it to my bucket, was surprised to see it ring up at $10, and brought it home.

Wow. This is the bargain of the year.

There’s something wrong with this price – I’m sure of it. A $10 hammer with a magnetic nail-starter? That seems unheard of.

What’s more, it was *perfectly* implemented.

A couple of years ago, Kobalt came out with a then-new high velocity hammer. Since then, if I’m at a store and checking out claw or rip hammers that have built-in nail-starter magnets, I check out all the hammers in a row to see if they’re installed properly and consistently.

Aside from some loose and easily cleanable metal shavings, everything here looked good.

The bent nail claw looked good, with nothing notable to report.

Ah, I found the catch.

So when looking through the hammers on the shelf, there seemed to be different levels of grinding attention given to the transition between the strike face and central body. Meaning, some hammers had more defined (sharper-looking) transition steps, while others were finished a little better.

Basically, some hammers are a little prettier than others. This doesn’t seem consequential at all, and so I grabbed a hammer and was done with it.

I brought the hammer home, drove in some test nails, and WOW, it was a life-changing experience! Sorry, that’s not true. This is a well-made hammer and I like its balance and feel. I wouldn’t call it amazing, but it’s also definitely not a generic nail hammer.

I also like the axe-style handle flare, a feature that helps to keep my hand on-position. This can be a polarizing opinion, with some people for it, others against it, and I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t have any preference.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to plainly discuss this hammer, and it’s been difficult. Quite simply put, this is the best hammer I’ve ever used for under $20.

Was the price a mistake, with someone at Home Depot forgetting to add a “1” in front of the $9.97? Is this a special buy? How is this just $10?! I cannot figure it out!

I cannot formally review it yet, as that might take a few months of project use, but initial testing showed me that it won’t disintegrate upon contact with a nail – not that this was ever a real concern.

I prefer 16 ounce nail hammers to have a claw hammer – as opposed to a rip claw. Steel handles are more durable than other materials, and this one doesn’t seem to have added heft. I like the weight, balance, and feel. There’s a magnetic nail-starter, a typically more premium feature found on pricier hammers. The handle is great, the claw is great, everything about this hammer says “this is a good hammer.”

The only cost-cutting measure seems to be slight inconsistencies involving a cosmetic transition grind.

Wait – is the strike face malformed? No – it’s as perfectly circular as I’ve seen. (That’s always equally disappointing and amusing, whenever I check a hammer at a store and find its strike face to be oval in shape, but not this one.)

So… yeah, Home Depot has hidden this (new?) Husky steel-handled hammer on store shelves, and at just $10 it’s an absolute steal.

I cannot find any other name-brand steel-handled hammer even close to this price.

I’m giving up on trying to understand it.

So how do I share about this hammer? I’m embarrassed to say it’s taken me a couple of weeks and I still cannot find an eloquent way to sum everything up.

On one hand, this is a good hammer – I put it in my shopping bucket before I verified the price. On the other hand, this is a fantastic bargain at just $10. How can it be both?

Check it out at your next visit to Home Depot, maybe even give it a controlled air swing (something I hope becomes commonplace so it’s less unusual when I do it), and tell me what you think.

Price: $9.97

Buy Now via Home Depot

Lastly, I should point out that Husky has a lifetime “no receipt required, no questions asked” hand tool warranty.

Related Posts:

If You Want a Hammer with Magnetic Nail Starter, Buy it Locally

5 Sweet Hand Tool Upgrades (Holiday 2019 Gift Guide)

Let’s Talk About Modern High Velocity Hammers

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composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel post

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=here your database name(post)
DB_USERNAME=here database username(root)
DB_PASSWORD=here database password(root)

composer require "spatie/laravel-medialibrary:^9.6.0"

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

php artisan migrate

php artisan make:model post -m

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreatePostsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('title');
            $table->text('body');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('posts');
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\InteractsWithMedia;

class Post extends Model implements HasMedia
{
    use HasFactory,InteractsWithMedia;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'title',
        'body',
    ];
}

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\PostController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('post',[PostController::class,'index'])->name('post');
Route::get('post/create',[PostController::class,'create'])->name('post.create');
Route::post('post/store',[PostController::class,'store'])->name('post.store');

php artisan make:controller PostController 

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Post;

class PostController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {    
        $posts = Post::latest()->get();

        return view('post.index',compact('posts'));
    }

    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function create()
    {
        return view('post.create');
    }

    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $input = $request->all();

        $post = Post::create($input);

        if($request->hasFile('image') && $request->file('image')->isValid()){
            $post->addMediaFromRequest('image')->toMediaCollection('images');
        }

        return redirect()->route('post');
    }
}

<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel Spatie Medialibrary Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/5.0.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
</head>
<body class="bg-dark">
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-8 offset-2">
            <div class="card mt-5">
                <div class="card-header">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-md-10">
                            <h5>Laravel 8 Spatie Medialibrary Example</h5>
                        </div>
                        <div class="col-md-2 text-center">
                            <a href="" class="btn btn-success btn-sm">Create</a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="card-body">
                    <table class="table table-bordered">
                        <thead>
                            <tr>
                                <th>No</th>
                                <th>Title</th>
                                <th width="25%">Image</th>
                            </tr>
                        </thead>
                        <tbody>
                            @foreach($posts as $key=>$post)
                                <tr>
                                    <td></td>
                                    <td></td>
                                    <td><img src="" / width="100%"></td>
                                </tr>
                            @endforeach
                        </tbody>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel Spatie Medialibrary Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/5.0.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
</head>
<body class="bg-dark">
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-8 offset-2">
            <div class="card mt-5">
                <div class="card-header">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-md-10">
                            <h5>Laravel 8 Spatie Medialibrary Example</h5>
                        </div>
                        <div class="col-md-2 text-center">
                            <a href="" class="btn btn-info btn-sm">Back</a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="card-body">
                    <form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
                        @csrf
                        <div class="row">
                            <div class="col-md-12 mb-3">
                                <div class="form-group">
                                    <label for="">Title:</label>
                                    <input type="" name="title" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter Title">
                                </div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="row">
                            <div class="col-md-12 mb-3">
                                <label for="">Body:</label>
                                <textarea name="body" id="" class="form-control" rows="3"></textarea>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="row">
                            <div class="col-md-12 mb-3">
                                <label for="">Image:</label>
                                <input type="file" name="image" class="form-control">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="row">
                            <div class="col-md-12 mb-3 text-center">
                                <button class="btn btn-success btn-block">Submit</button>
                            </div>
                        </div>    
                    </form>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

php artisan storage:link

......
APP_URL=http://localhost:9000
......

php artisan serve --port=9000

http://localhost:9000/post

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The connectivity of smart home devices is short range due to the limitations of a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network. When the devices don’t have any network connection, they won’t function.

All that has changed with the Amazon Sidewalk as it extends the network connectivity of your smart home devices for your convenience, safety, and comfort.

What Is Amazon Sidewalk?

Unveiled in 2019, Amazon Sidewalk helps to keep your low-powered home devices connected, using a small portion of your Wi-Fi’s bandwidth. Designed for low-cost and easy-to-use devices, it sustains the network connection of devices over long distances.

With Sidewalk, your smart home devices like an Amazon Echo, Ring security cameras, motion sensors, outdoor lights, and more can operate beyond the confines of your immediate environment.

The technology doesn’t require any new hardware as Amazon has added Sidewalk compatibility to a number of popular devices.

Related: What Is Amazon Sidewalk and How Does It Work?

How Amazon Sidewalk Works

Sidewalk leverages a Wi-Fi network to operate in the background. Instead of having the connectivity of your devices restricted to your front door, Sidewalk takes it farther—across your neighborhood.

The strength of the Sidewalk network is impacted by the number of connected devices. When more people in your neighborhood connect to the network, it becomes stronger.

There are two categories of Sidewalk devices—Sidewalk Bridges and Sidewalk-enabled devices. Sidewalk Bridges supply network connections to Sidewalk-enabled devices.

Sidewalk Bridges include newer Amazon Echo models and Ring cameras.

Sidewalk’s use is restricted to devices with low bandwidth. You can’t use the feature for activities requiring high bandwidth such as streaming.

How to Disable Amazon Sidewalk on Echo, Ring Devices

Amazon Sidewalk is turned on on your Echo and Ring devices by default. If you have any reservations about using Sidewalk, you can disable it with a few simple steps. Should you change your mind about using the feature, you can enable it at any time.

To disable Amazon Sidewalk, log into the Alexa app on your iOS or Android device, and follow the following steps. Navigate to More > Settings > Account Settings > Amazon Sidewalk and switch it off.

If you want to enable Sidewalk at any point, here’s how to do it. Open the Alexa app, navigate to More > Settings > Account Settings > Amazon Sidewalk and switch it back on.

Benefits of Using Amazon Sidewalk

Using Amazon Sidewalk comes with several benefits.

Tracking Devices

Sidewalk helps you to keep devices around your home connected at all times and track their locations, giving you peace of mind. You can track your devices even when they are out of a Wi-Fi connection using the Sidewalk-enabled tracker, Tile.

Staying Connected

If the Wi-Fi connection to your Sidewalk bridge device is lost, Amazon Sidewalk restores the connection by reconnecting it to your router.

Protecting Your Privacy

Amazon has been heavily criticized for the lack of privacy regarding shared data on Sidewalk, but it assures you that your privacy is protected. Sidewalk is designed with advanced security to keep your personal information secured.

According to Amazon, data shared on Sidewalk is protected with three levels of encryption as well as other security measures such as cryptographic algorithms, rotating device IDs, and one-way hashing.

Your Choice to Use Amazon Sidewalk

Although Amazon Sidewalk creates more value for your home devices, you might have security concerns about having your information on a shared network.

If it’s any consolation, Amazon says that its servers only authenticate and route your data to intended places without reading or collecting it. The company recently released a whitepaper that addresses the security concerns of Sidewalk.

In the end, the decision to use Sidewalk is yours to make.

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Among all the valuable assets you own, time is the most precious of all. In today’s fast-paced world, lack of time management is the most significant problem that people have. With so much time spent working, there is no time for personal pursuits.

It is common to feel overwhelmed with responsibilities and activities. The more you work, the further behind you feel. Instead of deciding what you want to do, you react to what’s happening around you.

The article explains how you can use Covey’s Four Quadrants strategy to focus on the most important tasks and be more productive.

Covey’s 4 Quadrants

The 4 Quadrants Time Management Strategy was created by Steven Covey. He is the author of the famous book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey’s matrix helps to prioritize tasks based on the time available for optimal efficiency.

The basic idea behind this strategy is to divide your activities into four quadrants depending on their importance and urgency. Let’s discuss both of these terms before moving on to the strategy itself.

1. Important: These are the tasks or goals most likely to impact your long-term success.

2. Urgent: Urgent tasks are those that require immediate action. You can’t delay them.

Four Quadrants of Time Management Matrix

These are the four quadrants of the Time Management Matrix:

1. Q1: Urgent and important.

2. Q2: Not Urgent but important.

3. Q3: Urgent but not important.

4. Q4: Not urgent and not important.

By prioritizing your tasks across four quadrants, you can differentiate between tasks that make a real difference in the end. The following is a brief overview of what each quadrant contains.

Q1: Urgent and Important:

In Covey’s time management matrix, this quadrant is located at the top left. Problems and crises that require immediate attention belong in quadrant one. Neglecting them, in the long run, can be problematic for you.

Preparing a presentation for an important meeting that will commence after a short time is a type of task that falls in quadrant one. It’s urgent because you don’t have much time for it and it’s important as you have to get it ready before the meeting starts.

Tasks involving deadlines, school assignments, sending daily emails, and similar activities with direct impact are urgent and important.

Q2: Not Urgent but Important:

In Covey’s time management matrix, this quadrant is on the top right. In this quadrant, you will find tasks that directly relate to your long-term goals. It requires your thorough attention; however, it is not urgent as there is no limited time to complete this task.

If you have a long-term goal of establishing your reputation in an office or class, it may not be that urgent; however, it is still important. Developing relationships, long-term planning, personal development, improving health, and related activities fall within this quadrant.

Q3: Urgent but Not Important:

This quadrant is located in the bottom left corner of Covey’s time management matrix. All those activities may seem urgent to you, but you can remove them from the workflow since they hold minimal importance for you.

Let’s say you are working on an important project and you get a call from a colleague asking you to join a meeting. If the meeting is unplanned without an agenda, you may choose to skip it. Since, overall, it won’t have any positive impact on your life.

In other words, all the time-wasting activities fall in this quadrant. No matter if it’s unimportant calls or sending emails that don’t add any value.

Q4: Not Urgent and Not Important:

In Covey’s time management matrix, this quadrant is at the bottom right-hand side. All activities that take up time without producing any value fall into this quadrant. You can save valuable time by avoiding those chores and spending it on more valuable activities.

The tasks you do for entertainment alone, such as watching the television, surfing the web for hours, gossiping about people, are neither urgent nor important for you.

Related: Ways to Follow Through on Your Time Management Goals

Benefits of Following Covey’s Time Management Matrix:

1. Productivity Boost: Following the time management matrix changes how you deal with the tasks, helping you prioritize them better. If you shrink the amount of time you spend on tasks, then you can significantly increase your productivity.

2. Work-Life Balance: By planning well, you can get rid of your hectic routine effectively. This way, you can spend more time with your friends and family.

3. Chasing Goals: By diverting your attention to important tasks, you can speed up the process of chasing the goals.

4. Avoids Embarrassment: By recognizing the urgent tasks, you can differentiate them from less urgent ones to better meet the deadlines. This way, you can avoid embarrassment and save your reputation.

Importance of Placing Tasks in Right Quadrant:

Even once you understand this strategy, it remains imperative to assign tasks to the correct quadrants. It would be best if you determined the importance and urgency of the task before fitting it into any quadrant. Make sure you spend a good time arranging your tasks in different quadrants to facilitate their smooth execution.

Related: Productivity Tips That Produce Massive Results

A good understanding of the time management matrix is a prerequisite to implementing it properly. Put this strategy to work on your everyday task to see if it makes any difference. By managing time and putting yourself in the right spot, you can significantly boost your productivity.

Be More Organized With Covey’s Time Management Strategy

Covey’s four-quadrant matrix is one of the most important and famous models in the world of time management. Following this strategy correctly will help you be more productive and stay more active.

Perfect organization and properly prioritizing tasks enable you to accomplish more in less time. You can also determine which tasks require more attention and allocate them accordingly.

However, you can reassign time from lower-value activities to higher-value ones even when that time is irreplaceable. If you are still struggling to organize your day, you can search for other time management strategies like the 80/20 rule to make yourself a more organized person.

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- Department
  - Section 1
    - Team 1
    - Team 2
  - Section 2
...

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Test extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $parentColumn = 'parent_id';

    public function parent()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Test::class,$this->parentColumn);
    }

    public function children()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Test::class, $this->parentColumn);
    }

    public function allChildren()
    {
        return $this->children()->with('allChildren');
    }

}

$department = Test::find(3);
$parent = $department->parent;

$department = Test::find(3);
$children = $department->children;

$department = Test::find(3);
$children = $department->allChildren;

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composer require rexshijaku/sql-to-laravel-builder

<?php

use RexShijaku\SQLToLaravelBuilder\SQLToLaravelBuilder;

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . './vendor/autoload.php';

$options = array('facade' => 'DB::');
$converter = new SQLToLaravelBuilder($options);

$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM members";
echo $converter->convert($sql);

DB::table('members')->count();

$sql = "SELECT
                department_id,
                count(*) 
            FROM
                members
                LEFT JOIN details AS d ON d.member_id = members.member_id 
            WHERE
                ( age = 25 OR ( salary = 2000 AND gender = 'm' ) ) 
                AND id > 15 
            GROUP BY
                department_id 
            HAVING
                height > 1.60";
echo $converter->convert($sql);

DB::table('members')
    ->select('department_id', DB::raw('count(*)'))
    ->leftJoin('details AS d', 'd.member_id', '=', 'members.member_id')
    ->where(function ($query) {
        $query->where('age', '=', 25)
              ->orWhere(function ($query) {
                            $query->where('salary', '=', 2000)
                                  ->where('gender', '=', 'm');
        });
    })
    ->where('id', '>', 15)
    ->groupBy('department_id')
    ->having('height', '>', 1.60)
    ->get();

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Way back in 2010, Rob Cockerham of the Cockeyed blog was obsessed with his then-new Eyeclops Bionic Eye Camera, a sort of toy microscope that hooks up to a television set, providing extreme 200x macro images. He turned the Eyeclops onto the seals of Ziploc-style sandwich bags to reveal what those closures look like up close.

With the naked eye, this is about the best you can see:

Using the Eyeclops, Cockerham reveals the female side:

Here, mated:

Next, a dual seal bag:

And one of those bags with the separate zipper pull:

"This is the view of the bag seal magnified by 200 times," Cockerham writes. "The connection is an incredibly tight handshake between the two channels. This looks like a waterproof seal!"

"Not impressed? Compare it to this shot of half of the standard double zipper. Notice all the open space around the connecting hooks… how shoddy!"

Also check out Cockerham’s Eyeclops explorations of Velcro and yarn.

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Browser extensions make a lot of things easier. They’re not just limited to general browsing usage, but can also come in handy for cybersecurity professionals.

It saves time for security researchers to quickly analyze a website, or online service—no matter whether they are looking for potential security issues or just doing a background check.

Here are some of the best browser extensions that cybersecurity researchers, ethical hackers, or penetration testers find useful. Even if you are not one, you can still use these extensions to find out more information about the websites you visit.

Most Popular Web Browser Add-ons for Security Researchers

You can find most (but not all) of the popular options listed below for both Google Chrome (or Chrome alternatives) and Mozilla Firefox.

1. Wappalyzer

Wappalyzer browser extension is incredibly useful to identify the technologies used to create a website.

Of course, if you are an experienced web developer, you might be able to quickly notice without an extension. But this saves your time investigating a website to find out what it uses in the back-end.

It can detect the Content Management System (CMS), programming language, widgets, databases, Content Delivery Network (CDN), script, and a lot more.

With the information about the technologies used, a researcher can focus on what aspect to look for when finding an issue with the site.

Do note that you may not find all the details for every website—some try to hide it.

Download: Wappalyzer for Chrome | Firefox (Free)

2. Wayback Machine

A webpage can change any day, but with the help of Wayback Machine add-on, you can rewind to see what the website used to look like. Taking a look at an archived version might help you collect sensitive data or spot other historical issues.

It is an extension that makes use of the Internet Archive. So if you do not want to install an extension, you can directly use the website.

While it works most of the time, if a website is new or there are any other indexing issues, the archived version may not be available.

Download: Wayback Machine for Chrome | Firefox

3. IP Address & Domain Information

This tool gives you detailed information of a website’s IP address and other data associated with the domain, like contact details.

With these details, you can try to assess the website security and credibility with precision. You can locate the website’s server address, hosting information, evaluate login security, and check if it is a part of a malicious network.

Download: IP Address and Domain Information for Chrome | Firefox

4. HackBar

HackBar is a useful tool for penetration testers, i.e. ethical hackers. With the help of this tool, you can find vulnerabilities in a website and evaluate the security measures. You will have to access it using the developer tools in Chrome.

It is an open-source project that you can also find on GitHub if you are curious.

Download: HackBar for Chrome

5. Sputnik

Sputnik is yet another tool to help you get details and insights on a website. You can get the IP address, SSL certificate information (to verify whether it’s secure), and various related data with the help of third party service integrations available.

It saves you time by quickly redirecting you to those services to get information about a site.

Download: Sputnik for Chrome | Firefox

Related: What Is a Website Security Certificate?

6. User-Agent Switcher and Manager

If you want to prevent websites from learning about your browser information when analyzing websites, this can come in handy.

The User-Agent Switcher lets you spoof websites to show that you are accessing from a mobile browser or a different browser. You can even select a different operating system.

It also lets you configure for which site you want to spoof and disable for usual browsing activities. Overall, it features a lot of options to choose from, so don’t be afraid to explore!

Download: User-Agent Switcher and Manager for Chrome | Firefox

 7. Pulsedive Threat Intelligence

Pulsedive Threat Intelligence can prove to be an all-in-one tool for security professionals who want a complete set of information about a website.

Unlike some other tools, it is not limited to third-party services but also user reports and threat intelligence feeds. So you get a broad network to collect information about a website for any specific purpose.

Some of the insights include SSL certificate information, WHOIS data, threats, technologies, and much more. In other words, it could replace multiple browser extensions. As a user, you might find the information overwhelming, but you can still explore it to get some idea.

Download: Pulsedive Threat Intelligence for Chrome | Firefox

8. Link Redirect Trace

Link Redirect Trace is an impressive tool to analyze links when a website redirects.

When you click on a link, it connects to a lot of resources along with the page you are trying to load. And with this tool, you can get all the information you need about those connections.

It’ll tell you if the links are safe, accessible (or broken), and other backlink-related information. You can also find hidden redirects that some sites may be using for malicious activities.

Download: Link Redirect Trace for Chrome | Firefox

9. Laboratory (Content Security Policy)

A proper Content Security Policy (CSP) helps fight against common attacks. The threats include cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking, and other attacks that could change the code of a trusted website to spread malware.

With this tool, you can generate a suggested CSP header to protect against some common web attacks.

Download: Laboratory for Chrome | Firefox

10. EXIF Viewer Pro

EXIF metadata of an image often includes a great deal of information like the camera used, location, and modification/creation date.

While you can find a lot of EXIF viewer extensions for your browser, this provides one of the most complete datasets. This information usually helps in forensic analysis for a researcher.

Download: EXIF Viewer Pro for Chrome

Extensions Make It Easy to Collect and Analyze Information

With the help of browser add-ons, you can quickly find the information for further investigation and research.

Every extension serves a different purpose and may not affect your browsing experience. Nonetheless, it is best to not have all the extensions installed at the same time if you are facing issues.

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