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Tips and Tricks
This is where you'll find various tips, tricks, and tools for dealing with technology and more. My hope is that something you find here will make your technical life easier - or even fun!
Are you a human or a bot?
This is a question that many website owners have to ask themselves - or rather - the code that they write must ask itself.
In order to thwart the evil minions of script kiddies and spam rings, many site owners choose to employ some form of CAPTCHA. The linked Wikipedia article explains the use of CAPTCHA as well as its strengths, weaknesses, and criticisms. Below is an example CAPTCHA implementation which relies on PHP. Give it a shot. Are you a bot - or not? ^_^
The nice thing about this particular project, currently under Google's oversight, is that users of your website aren't just wasting their time, they're helping Google decipher words from vast amounts of physical paper-and-ink books which it is tirelessly scanning into digital libraries.
Installing Watchtower Library on a Mac OSX or Linux-based computer
A number of folks ask me about the possibility of installing Watchtower Library on a Mac OSX-based computer. I haven't tested this out myself, but apparently, it is possible. Check out the website watchtowerlibraryformac.info for more information. (Note that you'll need a Watchtower Library CD-ROM, available only to baptized Witnesses.)
If you are running Linux and wish to use the library, you'll need to install the latest version of Wine for your distribution. Check out WineHQ for more information.