Firefox 3: New front in the browser war!

It has been 2 weeks since the much hyped FireFox 3 has been launched. Mozilla claims to have logged in excess of 20.3 million downloads until now. The browser saw 8 million downloads within the first 24-hours of its release. This download feat is considered as a the most downloaded file in a single day and is being considered for inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records. Amidst all the hype it has created, did the new version live up to everyone’s expectations or was it just old wine in a new bottle? Lets have a breakdown of what the new version offers! (more…)

When CAPTCHA has gone too far

Using CAPTCHA once was a good method to stop spam. Now that spam bots have gotten much more advanced some websites try to advance their CAPTCHA images to a point where they are unrecognizable.

Recently when trying to access a file on a popular file download site I came across this CAPTCHA:

Is it just me or do the cats look like dogs and the dogs look like cats? It took me 4 times to finally get the correct letter combination.