Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud, was recently acquired by the IT giant Google. A CAPTCHA, according to Wikipedia, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. This feature is commonly used in ... Full story

Power Twitter is a simple but highly recommended Firefox addon for twitter fans who want to view all the information right there without jumping tabs or windows. The addon works a lot like the popular Greasemonkey scripts, changing twitter's web interface in order to improve the user ... Full story

The Pirate Bay foursome, founders and administrators of one of the biggest Bittorrent trackers in the world, were handed today a guilty verdict with 1 year in jail included. "The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has ... Full story

Google Image Search is massively used image search engine that up until now only allowed you to search by keyword and resolution. While this is suitable for most cases, sometimes you need a bit more specification of the type of image, specially when the image has to go along with some sort of context of if ... Full story

Live.com just got three new handy features in what appears to be an attempt to once again compete with Google's search engine. Nevertheless, these features are pretty handy if you're fond of Live Search and welcome a bit more functionality: Currency Conversion A feature that should have already been implemented a long time ago, since it completely ... Full story

Smart Youtube is WordPress plugin that lets you easily embed videos and playlists from Google's popular free video service right in your blog's posts, comments or RSS feeds. The plugin requires almost no configuration and all you have to do to insert a video on your post and/or comment (if said feature ... Full story

Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a twitter client embedded right in Gmail, allowing you to have one more service focused in just one browser tab/window. Instructions to install this gadget are quite simple and information is provided in the gadget's website, which needs a bit of a face ... Full story

Unlike the last post, this one comes directly from the official Last.fm blog, where Richard Jones announces that the online radio will soon have a monthly subscription fee of €3 if you want to continue to listening to music wherever you are (and have an internet connection). This will ... Full story

How many times have you sent an e-mail and right after pressing the "send" button you realized that you were sending it to the wrong person or forgot to send an attachment? Have no fear, Gmail is here! The totally-omg-awesome Gmail Labs now features a new option that allows you to undo ... Full story

Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 8 has been available for beta-testing for about a year now, but since this morning the Redmond company released the final version worldwide for your downloading pleasure. The software is free for licensed Microsoft Windows users and will be an integrated part ... Full story