Gary Eckstein Internet 0 google, Internet, OCR, reCAPTCHA, website content
I greatly admire the reCaptcha project including the less popular reCaptcha Mailhide. reCaptcha is really clever as, whilst on the one hand providing verification for Website content, on the other and at the same time digitized content that optical character recognition (OCR) software can’t decifer is solved by humans. reCaptcha provides a great service to character [...]
Gary Eckstein Management 2 apple, google, marketing
Google is certainly an amazing company that offers innovative and new ways to share information. Google’s a genius company with unbelievable ideas and, more importantly, the ability to transform those ideas into products and services. Just think of Google Search, Google Apps, Blogger, YouTube and so many other popular Web services. Underneath it all, Google is a [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 3 apple, apple safari, chrome, firebug, google, Google Chrome, Internet, internet browsers, internet explorer, Matt Mullenweg, mozilla, mozilla firefox
This Post could also be titled “Why I now use Google Chrome” as I’ve recently done something a few weeks back I would have thought extremely unlikely. I used and loved Mozilla Firefox for many years and then I was forced to reinstall the OS and software onto my laptop due to a trojan. The [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 CSS, google, html, internet browsers, w3c, web design, WHATWG
HTML5, although still in development, is becoming widely supported by the various major browsers. The most talked about differences between HTML4 and HTML5 are the introduction in the new HTML version of various multimedia capabilities and elements (e.g. <video> and <audio>) and ‘offline Web applications’. The ramifications of HTML5 capabilities are significant from a Web [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 gmail, google, hotmail, mailchimp, Microsoft, yahoo
MailChimp sends out an incredible 2 billion emails every month. It is also a freemium service (basic membership is free and there are premium services available). As it is free, open to all and is such a prominent player in the email newsletter marketplace it is well placed to be able to analyze the various [...]
