How to prevent both users and bots from registering using image verification

Written by niemi | Monday, November 24th, 2008
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So I’ve been thinking a while about joining Yahoo’s excellent answers site. You know, thinking about all the big questions in life like “which shoe-size does almighty Google Larry use” and “where can I bury my dead pixels”. Registering for Yahoo As far as I can remember I’ve never used Yahoo for anything. I AM [...]

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Google Chrome – faster and more screen estate

Written by niemi | Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
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By now you’ve probably heard that Google has released their first version of Chrome. enaresh.com news.cnet.com kurogane.animeblogger.net googleblog.blogspot.com Chrome is a browser based on Webkit just like Safari. That’s good news for designers as they don’t have to deal wth another peculiar set of HTML and CSS rules and exceptions. Pixels for free! The first [...]

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Hiding download links is pure stupidity

Written by niemi | Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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Not that many years ago, usability expert Jacob Nielsen recommended that links should be blue. No negotiation, just make that link blue. In 2006 Nielsen recently decided to pull back that guide line as “today’s users have seen links in many other colors”. It doesn’t matter if a download link (or any other link) is [...]

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