Flash Video NuCaptcha Ready to Block Bots

CAPTCHA: the most irritating and unfortunate necessity of the Web. Spam bots have gotten smart enough to outwit most of the hoops put in place to keep them from flooding various sites with fake accounts. To stem the tide, CAPTCHAs have gotten increasingly difficult for the bots to decipher, which has the unfortunate side effect of leaving humans just as puzzled. While we're forced to pause, squint and scratch our heads at the obscure combinations of letters and numbers, the machines are only getting better at breaking them.

A new idea is to switch from static mixes of letters and numbers to videos that are more legible to human viewers, and arguably more difficult for machines to parse. NuCaptcha's NuCaptcha would play short videos of letters bobbing and scrolling across a background. A predetermined message in white would be followed by a short selection of characters in red, which a user would be asked to repeat. While it sounds great in theory, the last thing we think the Web needs is more embedded Flash videos. Check after the break for an example[Via switched]

Free Online tools to scan your website against malware, virus, and bad scripts

If you had the bad experience of having your your website affected by a virus, malware or a bad script inserted, here are 2 useful and free tools to scan your website and detect any malware on your website or hided scripts:
unmaskparasites
This is a great tool that scan your website and can detect any hided bad script  inserted in your website.

AVG Online Web Page Scanner

The AVG LinkScanner® Drop Zone lets you check the safety of individual web pages you are about to visit. You may have received a suspicious link in an e-mail — just copy the URL (web page address) and drop it into the box below. LinkScanner® will examine the web page in real time to see whether it's hiding any suspicious downloads. Even innocent web sites can contain hidden "drive-by downloads". Use the AVG LinkScanner® Drop Zone to inspect:

• Links forwarded by friends
• URLs displayed by search results
• Links containing odd characters
• Any site you've never visited before

First zero day exploit hits Firefox 3.6

Security specialists from Russia have made a Windows exploit for a previously unknown security hole in Mozilla's Firefox 3.6 available to the public. The exploit allows attackers to remotely gain control of your Windows machine. Developer Evgeny Legerov praises his exploit for Windows XP (SP3) and Vista as being reliable, however that doesn't necessarily mean that Firefox on other platforms is not affected.

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GuerrillaMail - A disposable Temporary E-Mail Address

GuerrillaMail is a  website service  that provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 60 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.

To use GuerrillaMail go to http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Watch this video for explanations about how does it works :

Grand Theft Auto Drops on iPhone for $9.99

Grand Theft Auto IV was the biggest game launch of all time (or it was until Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 hit the shelves, anyway), and now you can get an approximation of that GTA experience on your iPhone or iPod touch with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars [iTunes link].

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Official Gmail Blog: Default https access for Gmail

Official Gmail Blog: Default https access for Gmail

WoW ! Play virtual piano inside a youtube video

It’s a very creative use of annotations feature inside YouTube. Leave the video until is loaded then  you can start playing piano. Slim Video :)