Thanks a lot, Brandon. I'm looking forward to it. Teresa
On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Brandon Olivares <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been working on this service for a month or two now, and am finally > prepared to release it on Monday. I wanted to mention it on this list to let > everyone know. > > It is a web-based service called ZCaptcha, though I'd like to create an > application for it eventually. Basically you take a screenshot of the > captcha, then either upload it to the service or attach it to an e-mail. It > takes approximately 2-5 minutes, but soon you'll get an e-mail back with the > captcha code, or else you can check online, too. > > It is similar to what Solona did, but with this there are always people to > read the code. It uses Amazon Mechanical Turk, which is a service by Amazon > where hundreds of thousands of people are available to perform small tasks > for a low price. So, the image is sent, and easily returned within a couple > of minutes with the correct code. Because Turk itself charges, the average > price is $0.06 per captcha request, and ones in which the screenshot is wrong > somehow (not containing the captcha or the captcha cannot be read) is free. > > Obviously besides WebVissum for Firefox, there is really nothing like this > out there, which is why I wanted to develop it, as much for myself as for > everyone else. > > I plan on launching this on Monday, so I will give more information then. > > Thanks, > Brandon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
