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 Internet 1 CAPTCHA, contact details, email addresses, internet security, reCAPTCHA, spam
There are numerous means of adding contact details to a Website. In WordPress it’s incredibly simple to add a contact form with Plugins such as Contact Form 7 however having a postal address, email address and telephone number prominently displayed are all indicators of trust for consumers. Web surfers are more aware than ever that [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 CAPTCHA, email, email address, hcard, html, junk mail, lottery scams, microformats, OCR, reCAPTCHA, spam, spam filters, spammers, spamming, unsolicited email
If you have ever put your email address on your website you will know how quickly spambots get your email addres and email huge numbers of messages to your address. There are various scripts (mostly javascript) available which attempt to fool spambots (i.e. hide your email address from spammers) however these scripts are largely ineffective. [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 0 Australia, blog, blogs, CAPTCHA, cms, microformats, plugin, reCAPTCHA, rich snippets, telstra, WordPress
A new Telstra Blog has gone live over the past few days. The new Blog called ‘Telstra Exchange’ is a replacement for ‘Now We are Talking’. From a technological perspective it’s great that Telstra is again using WordPress as the Content Management System (CMS). Some of the WordPress Plugins being used are; Extended Profile: From [...]
