Most people don’t think twice about CAPTCHA’s – those funny looking prompts presented to Internet users to differentiate them from spam-bots or automated malicious scripts. They’re quickly answered, granting people access to the websites and information being sought. As the technology available to the Internet’s evil-doers has advanced allowing the defeat of early CAPTCHA [...]
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2 Comments »The idea to turn those annoying but necessary CAPTCHA prompts Internet users face everyday into a productive use of idle human brainpower is nothing new. For several years now, reCAPTCHA has been applying its spam thwarting CAPTCHA techniques to digitize massive numbers of the world’s books – a task which ultimately got it purchased by [...]
Posted in Internet, Web Technology Tags: advertising, CAPTCHA, Internet, reCAPTCHA, security, Solve Media, spam 1 Comment »Not to be outdone by the worldliness of Sharp’s new e-Dictionary, Openmoko, the makers of the WikiReader, today announced downloadable updates for the palm-sized encyclopedia to support 14 additional languages including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Norwegian, Greek, French, Finnish, Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Welsh, Russian and Hungarian. In addition to translated versions of the WikiReader’s 3 [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Gadgets Tags: encyclopedia, Internet, Wikipedia, WikiReader No Comments »The introduction of the tabbed web browsing user interface was a major improvement to web browsing software – so much so that all major web browsers, like Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera all include some rendition of tabs to organize web pages in an Internet session. Prior to tabs, each web page a user [...]