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5+ Free Captcha Modules to Fight with Spam
Posted by Glance World Admin in Resources on June 16, 2010
A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a challenge-response integrated within the web forms to determine the user is a human or a spam bot. The CAPTCHA is used to protect a web form against illegal submissions made by a spam bots.A Spam bot is an automated scripts that generate spam content and post it everywhere they can.Usually an image is used to show some distorted text and an input field, asking user to type the challenging text what they see in the distorted text.
WordPress 3.0 RC3 (Release Candidate 3) Available for Download
Posted by Glance World Admin in Release on June 12, 2010
We know all of use are waiting for the final release of WordPress 3.0. The RC3 of WordPress 3.0 is now out for everyone to download and try. The reason behind a release candidate is that, although the software application is tested on a variety of platform and this application is risk free.
WordPress is a great tool for blogger and bussiness owner on the web. With WordPress 3.0 you can Create and manage your blog without limits.
Google introduce Bing-like Custom Background
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google on June 03, 2010
Google Personalized Homepage
Google has introduced a new feature yesterday (June 2, 2010) that allows users to upload a custom background from there Computer or a Picasa Web Album to personalize the Google’s homepage; just like a computer desktop. This exciting feature is known as Freeze Frame.
WordPress 3.0 RC 1 Released (Release Candidate 1)
Posted by Glance World Admin in Release on May 29, 2010
In April, WordPress released its new beta version “WordPress 3.0 Beta 1“. On May 28, 2010, WordPress has finally launched its awesome WordPress 3.0 RC1 on it’s birthday, available for download. RC is an indication that product is ready for final launch.
WordPress 3.0 RC 1
More then 25 million people are using WordPress with a broad variety of configurations and hosting setups.
Google Chrome URL bar no longer shows http://
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Web Browsers on April 20, 2010
The most recent developer version of Google’s Chrome browser has introduced a quiet, but appreciable change. When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you automatically know that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Google has removed http:// prefix from the recent developer version of Chorme, and simply displaying a URL as “glanceworld.com”. Here are some questions raised What happens in other cases for example where the scheme is https or FTP? For this reason, some individuals are actually reporting the feature as a bug.
Firefox Lorentz Beta Released
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Tech News, Web Browsers on April 11, 2010
Firefox fans, it’s here: The first beta of Firefox Lorentz beta has been released.
Lorentz is Firefox version 3.6.3 with a much delight in update. Firefox beta allows you to separate plugins, such as Adobe Flash, so that they don’t crash the entire browser when they encounter issues and the plugin is replaced with a dark image notifying the plugin crash. This feature is called “out-of-process plugins.”
What’s new in WordPress 3.0?
Posted by Glance World Admin in What's New, Wordpress on April 08, 2010
On April 3, 2010, WordPress announced the first beta of version 3.0-b-1. There are some great new features coming, including custom post types, a new default theme, and a menu manager. Here is an overview about What’s new in WordPress 3.0
Choose your Username and Password during Installation.
You’ll find new features as soon as you start! In early version, when you first install WordPress, you are assigned a default username of admin, and a randomly generated password. Now WordPress give a new facility to choose a username and password when installing. This means that security within WordPress has been enhanced. Previously, a hacker could probably depend on the fact that there was a username called ‘admin’.
Mozilla to release Firefox mobile browser soon
Posted by Glance World Admin in Mobile Phones, Web Browsers on December 28, 2009
The wait for Mobile users is finally over. The first mobile version of the firefox free browser “Fennec” will be presented very soon.
Presently, it will be available for the Nokia N900, but then also be used in other models. Fennec will synchronize with Firefox. That means any Web page to open the PC’s browser automatically opens in the version for mobiles. “At the end of the day you can go home and stay connected to your terminal,” said Sullivan.
Sullivan further added that the browser is presently in its final stages of testing and could be available for download prior to the end of 2009.
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