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Apparently the CAPTCHA for Windows Live Mail can be cracked in as little as 60 seconds and Gmail’s CAPTCHA has also been cracked.
Does this mean the beginning of the end for CAPTCHA?
There are some other interesting solutions to spambots out there, it’ll be interesting to see the future landscape of this infestation and the methods […]

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Better YouTube Firefox Extension

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This is cool, a little Firefox addon from the guys at lifehacker to make your youtube experience a little richer
It basically combines several Greasemonkey scripts together into a single package.
Features include:

smartly enlarges videos for better viewing
hides user comments
declutters the page
disables autoplay

Download and install the addon, restart Firefox and you’re set to go. To […]

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A couple more cool Firefox tips

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Another couple of cool Firefox features which most people probably already know about.
How many times have you closed a tab only to realise “Damn…I still wanted that open!“? Well I do that about everyday and although you have the general history manager…if you’ve visited 100 sites that day it’s a pain to wade through to […]

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The only valid measurement of code quality

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

A friend of mine Don sent me this yesterday:

Gold!

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Today I noticed a JavaScript error on my site, on investigation I saw the following JavaScript code in the page source:

var CCounter=2151068; var CCsite=www.chapter31.com; CCinvisible=0;
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var CCounter=2151068; var CCsite=www.chapter31.com; CCinvisible=0;

My investigations found that where I downloaded the template from was a nice (NOT) little site called http://www.templatesbrowser.com/. Now what they do is add a “functions.php” […]

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