Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Stuff You Need: Cool Captcha

Okay, so maybe simple things amuse me tremendously, but I think this captcha is really neat.
We are all familiar with "captchas", those "questions" you fill out at the end of an online form that is used to limit cyber-bots from spamming too much. Usually it's just some word or words, or even just gibberish, and the letters are all wobbly and hard to read, and you have to try and distinguish what letters you're seeing so the site will allow you to submit your form. Anyway, those are not only annoying, but ineffective. The reason I think they're ineffective is that you have to try really hard to separate the letters on some of them, and even if you're not a cyber-bot, you may still get it wrong and then you can't leave your comment or submit your form or whatever it is you're doing. I know most of them only give you so many tries before it kicks you out and won't let you post.
Anyway, this particular captcha asks you to choose all the cat photos. When you hover over one, it makes the image bigger so you can see it better (which explains the large image of an orange cat in the middle of the photo). The other feature I love about this captcha is that it shows pictures of animals that are currently adoptable through Petfinder.com, and encourages you to adopt one. CyberSunshine is big on helping the animals.

This isn't the only neat captcha I've seen out there though. I have seen some that make you do a math problem, which, for me, is a bit of a problem since I tend to be more creatively-minded than mathematically-minded! I'd like to show you an example of that particular captcha, but it escapes me at the moment who's site I saw it on. So since I can't show you that one, here are two others: "KittenAuth" and "Are You Human?".

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