Oct 27 2007
Microsoft had its website (www.microsoft.com) long before most of today’s biggest IT companies were even founded. They have been renovating and developing the look and feel, as well as the usability of the website homepage. The website was once the most visited website in the internet. Not now. Let me put forth some of the glitches I noticed in the website homepage.
Oct 25 2007
Here is a list of smilies that you can use in a Wordpress post. Use the code for the smiley and the curresponding image will appear on the page. Some smileys have two or more codes. (Remeber to remove the quotes) Continue Reading »
Oct 24 2007
This post discusses the strength of the Rediff CAPTCHA. It is used in the sign-up page for Rediffmail. It seems to me like Rediff recently updated their algorithm. They have added lot of color and clutter to the background of the image. Let us look at a sample…
Oct 24 2007
Google is our first candidate for testing CAPTCHA strength. Google uses CAPTCHA in many places. It is shown when you want to add your URL to google. It is shown when you want to signup for a new Gmail/Orkut account. It is also shown when you want to include some hyperlink in your orkut messages and scraps.
Oct 24 2007
Visual CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are used in most of the websites which allow users to sign up/register. They are used to allow only humans inside the system and deny access to any automated robot. In this post, I give an overview of CAPTCHA security and methods to break it. Continue Reading »
Oct 23 2007
Google is exploding in popularity and is developing technologies other than searching the web. What I post here are some of my concerns about Google as a search engine. Continue Reading »
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