Ben Maynard's blog about anything » Random http://blog.visionsource.org I swear this blog is different from the others! Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:14:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The most craziest captcha….EVER! http://blog.visionsource.org/2010/08/14/the-most-craziest-captcha-ever/ http://blog.visionsource.org/2010/08/14/the-most-craziest-captcha-ever/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:13:32 +0000 Ben Maynard http://blog.visionsource.org/?p=113 I have been meaning to blog about this for over a year now, but check out the captcha on this website: http://linksave.in/register.

That is one way on how NOT to do captcha, but very interesting and I wonder how spam bots go with it.

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The guys at glyFX really do create some stunning icons, and its good to see them release free icons for developers who wish to create applications for the android platform. So please check out the The Android Developer Common Icon Set and if you can help support the guys for their hard work.

You can also check out the full set of free icons that glyFX have released here.

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Now to be honest, I can’t really see any benefits of having an OS running in your browser unless your on multiple computes through out the week and you want everything in one place. But on that note why not just buy a laptop or PDA? I think the idea is cool but for me it just do not see a place for it to succeed. After having a play around with some of the features, I found it to be really slow and could of done half the task on my own machine in half the time. And along with that, it uses alot of cpu and while loading some applications, it actually freezes up IE.

One thing that bugged me was one of its applications, a web browser. Now honestly why would you use the web browser inside this “OS” which is being run under a browser to start of with. To me is just a waste of time, and you loose half the features in your browser aswell.

Anyway thats my 2 cents, I’m sure there is some people who will benefit from this but as i said it has a limited market place, so best of luck to them.

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glyFX Vista Network I Icon Set

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The G7 has a cool feature where you can change the dpi on the fly which can be handy in games, along with the 2 batteries rather than a docking station. Its gonna take a little bit to get use to, but i have a felling i will love it as much as my MX1000. It’s also nicer than my MX Revolution, mainly because of the thumb wheel on the revo pisses me off, but im use to it now.

So far i am rating the G7 8/10 with alot of potential to make up the other 2 points :)

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ahhhh classic! I actually watched the whole interview which is a really good interview and provides some insight into what microsoft is doing these days. Originally i thought steve was just some crazy guy at microsoft that screams and jumps up and down alot, but now I actually know what he does! not just scream like a lunatic.

You can watch the full interview here: http://visitmix.com/blogs/News/Watch-Steve-Ballmer-and-Guy-Kawasaki-Live/

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