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Something is just wrong with this CAPTCHA!

October 19th, 2009 ITmeze 2 comments


Everyone knows what CAPTCHA is. This few weird letters/word that you write down to prove that you are a human. There are ton’s of them all around. Here and there. Often people (or developers) overuse them on web sites, which can be really annoying.
I was trying to register on one of the web sites today. After filling 16 (literally: sixteen) required fields on some really strange wizard I finally come up to form submission. This is what i saw:

weird catcha

Yeah, pretty straightforward. I thought. After filling input with PHN i saw JavaScript alert: ‘Invalid captcha!. Please try again’. I tried. And again the same. I was just about to abandon whole the process, but it all looked so strange i decided to  check what is going on in firebug. And then i figured out that actually valid input would be: ‘green’. WHAT?
Then I have read carefully what was written below the image: ‘If You are happy please type the color of the second character’. Argh! Wasn’t that obvious?

WEB DEVELOPERS! PLEASE, DON’T MAKE OUR LIFE DIFFICULT! DON’T LET US THINK!

What a stupid idea to make so common thing other way around! Or maybe it is okay, and this was my fault/foolishness not to read what was written? What You think? Do You know any other weird CAPTCHA?

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Short history of Facebook

October 19th, 2009 ITmeze No comments


If You haven’t seen or did not follow how world most popular social network changed over lat couple of years just take a break and spend next 4 minutes watching movie below.

And wow, just look at those numbers! RESPECT to Mark Zuckerberg!

After that I feel like an ant in today’s world.

I also recommend visiting web site: CheckFacebook. Where you can get some up to date stats about popularity and growth of Facebook user’s all over the world. Here is a simple screen shoot:

checkfacebook user's in cyprus

It looks like it is pretty popular in Cyprus as well  – third of population….