TinyMailto.com blog

Google's reCaptcha cracked?

2010-08-09T18:59:00.005-04:00

A few days ago I read about reCaptcha cracked on slashdot. I hope Google's reCaptcha come up with an answer or at least a clarification.

Right now I think tinymailto.com is safe, but maybe some extra checks are needed.

BTW, did you know Google purchased reCaptcha.net? ;)

update: spell checked

Some DB updates

2009-10-04T20:32:00.001-04:00

Added some updates to the DB to support "edit log" and "deletion"

Default captcha: recaptcha.net

2009-06-10T22:37:00.001-04:00

Hi,

it has been a while.

Today I changed the default captcha to recaptcha.net.

Meanwhile, I will add an URL so that you link to a default captcha test for your tinymailto code.

AddThis button added for social bookmarks

2008-08-24T23:13:00.001-04:00

Just added an AddThis button for the sites sharing or bookmark.

Give it a try and bookmark!

New Tinymailto version: 18-aug-2008 !

2008-08-18T21:57:00.006-04:00

There is a new version of tinymailto!

The changelog include:

reCaptcha is available for captcha verification(as seen on Slashdot)
captcha verification when creating a new tinymailto URL (found some strange emails in the DB)
friendly URLs for main sections of the site (because they are cool)
migrated to latest phpsf framework version(more info later)
reference adsense deleted since it is deprecated by Google (that Firefox ad)
typos corrected, thanks to Ryan from Chimoosoft
tech info about the site updated

Please report any feedback, many thanks!

2nd Aniversary of Tinymailto! Thanks to all again!

2008-08-16T20:29:00.003-04:00

A litle late, but on 06-aug-2008 it was the 2nd aniversary ot tinymailto.com!
Many thanks to all for the support and use of the site.

Some stats (06-aug-2007 to 06-aug-2008):

360 tinymailto URLs created
6937 Page views
2562 Absolute unique visitors from 107 countries
909 URL to email queried
2090 hits in Google search

New features for the future would include: my account page, new captcha image, non-cookie version and more.

Please keep sending suggestions and feature requests!

Regards,
Oliver

Hoststats enabled again

2008-06-12T18:52:00.002-04:00

The account from hosttracker.com was suspended because I had more than 2 URL in the trial account. I switched to the Free account and not it is working again.

Tinymailto slashdotted! Well, sort of ...

2008-04-21T00:54:00.004-04:00

Tinymailto is currently on godaddy after a link to the site appeared on the front page of Slashdot:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/12/1737218

The response should much better, like 150ms more responsible and much much faster download rate.

Also, uptime should be near 99,99% now ;)

New tinymailto version

2008-01-21T18:41:00.000-03:00

There is a new version of tinymailto uploaded today, version 21-jan-2008.

The new version include:

spellcheck/typo update, thank to Ryan from http://www.chimoosoft.com/ for the detailed email containing all the corrections
a link back to the referrer page, as suggested by Daniele from http://www.bitlet.org/
new about page, reflecting the actual status of tinymailto (no more an experiment)
new retrieved page, a smaller page
form input enhancement: size, javascript focus, tabindex(don't focus on the image)
new top message on all pages: appears after you create a new tinymailto URL and in the case you click another link and forgot what your tinymailto URL code were
PHP5 ready: this version works fine on PHP5, the version that will be used on godaddy hosting in the coming months (if all goes well)

I hope you like it, and please send me any kind of feedback and wish lists, here in the blog or via the about page. Thanks

Enjoy!

Happy 2008 Stats!

2008-01-04T11:59:00.000-03:00

Happy New Year 2008!

Here are some stats from tinymailto.com since the start until today:

457 tinymailto URL created
13836 page views
5364 unique visitors, from 97 countries
Total uptime:99.62% Downtime:17 hour(s) 33 min(s) (from apr-2007)

Moving to godaddy, maybe ...

2007-12-07T12:11:00.000-03:00

I'm planning to move tinymailto to a godaddy account in 2008.
If all goes well, and I have the extra money left, I think it would be a good thing to move to a dedicated hosting plan.

Our current hosting has a nice uptime(not perfect), but the bandwidth is a little limited.

Paypal button

2007-12-04T16:07:00.001-03:00

Its has been a while since the last post. I has been traveling(work related) and meanwhile my tinymailto ToDo list has grown a little bit :)

Today I added a paypal.com button, if anyone is interested in doing a donation. Amounts starting at $1 are welcome :)

1st Anniversary! Thanks to all!

2007-08-06T06:32:00.000-04:00

Today is tinymailto.com first anniversary!

Many thanks to all users who trusted us the task for protecting their e-mails!

Stats:

373 tinymailto.com URL created
10976 Page views
4228 Absolute unique visitors from 89 countries
6674 URL hits
2500+ hits in Google search

Latests links:

BitLet main contact link
1 blink at blinklist ;)
Blogs, links: mentoluptus, dittii, endre,

Domain payed for 2007/2008

2007-07-24T12:10:00.000-04:00

Just payed the domain tinymailto.com for another year!
Also, the first aniversary of tinymailto.com is comming next 6/8/7 (06-aug-2007)

Captcha tunning

2007-07-17T15:45:00.000-04:00

The captcha used in tinymailto.com is kcaptcha, I changed some parameters and upgraded the version to the latest, version 1.2.4
Now it uses only 4 letters/numbers and the background color is the same as the page

Nedstats/Motigo deprecated!

2007-05-28T00:03:00.000-04:00

I delete the counter of motigo(formelly nedstat) because now they show ads without your permission!!!

"With the use of motigo products and services on the site it is accepted that WMS has the right to place advertisements on the site in any format or through any channel, including but not limited to e-mail, layer ads, pops, banners and other usual formats without any forewarning and it is furthermore accepted that WMS takes no responsibility for the advertising content and that WMS shall not be liable for any losses incurred regarding this advertising."

http://motigo.com/about/terms

Motigo sucks :(

Web uptime monitoring

2007-04-07T11:17:00.000-04:00

Just added a web server uptime monitoring in tinymailto.com

The service is provided for free by http://host-tracker.com/
Is really an usefull site, so I recommend it. It has monitoring rate up to 1 minute, and reports from dially to anual basis.

A few days ago it seems that all Internet in my country went down, I have another server on another ISP and suffered the same downtime in the same timeframe.

Hope it helps

Feb-2007 stats

2007-03-03T10:16:00.000-03:00

Here some more numbers:

tinymailto URLs created: 286
Visitors: 7981, about 15 per day
web, blogs links: Spamlinks.net , berniej.blogspot.com, www.mybroadband.co.za forums

Happy 2007 to all! (a litle late but still in quarter #1 ;) )

Nov-2006 Stats

2006-11-13T10:00:00.000-03:00

Hi all,
the tinymailto stats posts are a little out of date. Here are some numbers:

tinymailto URLs created: 226
pageviews: 7,279 (google analitics)
average visits per day: 15 visits

The page views stats are normalized in previous months, and the visits per day are low but constant.

October 2006 news

2006-10-13T23:53:00.000-04:00

Hi all, this post is part of the monthly tinymailto newsletter.
tinymailto keep going fine, we have 209 URL created so far!

The site is much faster without google adsense, also looks a little better. No news yet about the ajax idea, I hope to get some time soon.

Greetings from a friday-13th night ... :)

Adsense no more + ajax popup

2006-09-10T10:40:00.000-04:00

I'm planning deprecating the Adsense for tinymailto.com, so it will load a little bit faster.
The Firefox button should stay.

More ideas - ajax popup
I'm planning learning about AJAX in the near future, I'm choosing a book right now. My idea is to put tinymailto.com in your page.
A click on you tinymailto.com URL will popup a litle window pointing to tinymail.com, you will only have to enter the captcha and there you go, your email is clickable.
If the user closes the popup, he must do all over again.
The popup will not be a window, but a html element, something like: amazon wish list popup, google calendar dialog popup for: adding a calendar, "do you want to delete your calendar", etc
That's all the brainstorming for now ...

Tinymailto.com, 5 weeks later

2006-09-10T10:37:00.000-04:00

This is the weekly report. Starting from today, I'm planning reporting once a month. So I will have a little more time on sundays for playing games or the familly ;)

Traffic is stabilizing after the masive visitors from stumbleupon.com, for example, until today we have 192 URLs created.

We have now like 60-70 visits por week.

Until next month, bye

Tinymailto.com, 4 weeks later, August in review

2006-09-03T18:29:00.000-04:00

Wow, this post marks the first month of TinyMailto.com since launch :)
Here are the weekly stats:

Visits: 2677 (Google Analitycs) 3932 (Webstats4u.com)
Pageviews: 5752 (Google Analitics)
tinymailto URL created: 187
Countries of visitors: 73
Google.com search results of "tinymailto.com": 353
Google.com -> Type: tinymailto -> Click: "I feel lucky" -> you got: tinymailto.com!
Links sites: igotspam, meneame(47 meneos)

All these numbers are totals, from 06-aug-2006 until now(03-set).

A big thanks for all users!

Tinymailto.com, 3 weeks later

2006-08-27T17:11:00.000-04:00

Last week was a fast one, I didn't noted that today is Sunday again :)
Anyways, here are the weekly stats:

Visits: 2490 (Google Analitycs) 3601 (Webstats4u.com)
Pageviews: 5752 (Google Analitics)
tinymailto URL created: 171
Countries of visitors: 72
Google.com search results of "tinymailto.com": 281
Links sites: digg, masternewmedia (new this week)

All these numbers are totals, from 06-aug-2006 until now.

Developer diaries #1

2006-08-27T17:06:00.000-04:00

This post is just for giving a little information about the site programming decisions.

BD: for the database I used Mysql 4 with InnoDB. No triggers were necessary.
Security: I use the PHP safe_mode and open_basedir options. Also, I parse all input, especially the page names.

... more to come

Tinymailto.com, 2 weeks later

2006-08-20T07:02:00.000-04:00

At last, I have more stats now:

Visits: 2141 (Google Analitycs) 3007 (Webstats4u.com)
Pageviews: 4881 (Google Analitics)
tinymailto URL created: 124
Countries of visitors: 68
Google.com search results of "tinymailto.com": 200
Links sites: blinklist, linklog
blogs: basimo, berniej

All these numbers are totals, from 06-aug-2006 until now.

I have to say that 67% of the traffic comes from stumbleupon.com, thats why I added the stumbleupon button in the site. I didn't knew stumbleupon.com until I looked at the stats and I never posted anything in stumbleupon.com, so a big thanks goes for the stumbleupon.com site and users ;)

little spellcheks update

2006-08-18T12:28:00.000-04:00

Just updated the about, help and start page with some spellcheck corrections.
Also added a new item in the FAQ, which is the same as the line added in the start page. In the about page added links to all online services used in the site.

I'm planning to post another report this sunday, that is, in the 2nd week since tinymailto launch date.

Thanks to Ale and Migs for the english corrections. Thanks to these feedbacks, I noted that nvu misses some words while doing the spellcheck. I had to manually select all the text and then click on the spellcheck button.

P.D.: I'm just loving the new Blogger beta!

Blog updated with labels

2006-08-17T13:15:00.001-04:00

I just upgraded to blogger beta, and edited all posts to have Labels now.
Also, the blog have an updated layout, I used the updated layout of blogger beta and changed a little bit the colors.

tinymailto fever

2006-08-14T16:44:00.000-04:00

The site is starting to have more and more traffic, I keep watching the webserver access log like crazy. This is nice, but I can't concentrate much in my actual job :)

So, I will try not to look at the web server access log or the google analitics web stats for a few days. That means, I need to "Ctrl+C" that "tail -f access_log" process.

See you again in a couple of days ...

stumbleupon.com

2006-08-14T11:35:00.000-04:00

I noted that too much hits come from www.stumbleupon.com, so I added a StumbleUpon banner on the tinymailto.com web site. I got the buttom from the button page at stumbleupon.
I'm downloading the stumbleupon firefox extension as I write ;)

Another blackout

2006-08-13T18:01:00.000-04:00

Once again, today we had a electricity blackout, from 1140 to 1755 EST (GMT-4) :(
Sorry for the website downtime. This kind of extended blackout are not normal, it seems that the electricity company had a problem with the new installation of new wires last thursday.

Tinymailto.com, 1 week later

2006-08-12T13:49:00.000-04:00

Today marks the 1st week of tinymailto launch aniversay!

I have some numbers:

Visits: 1158 (Google Analitycs) 1163 (Webstats4u.com)
Pageviews: 2678 (Google Analitics)
Blogs refering to tinymailto: labnol, ashwinkini, sridhar, slosar
URLs created: 76
Countries of visitors: 25

The numbers looks good, it seems that the web quote "build it and they will come" is working ;) Thanks for using the site and keep those URLs comming!

About tinymailto.com

2006-08-11T18:02:00.000-04:00

From tinymailto.com:
"TinyMailto.com let you convert your e-mail address into an URL that is protected from spammers by a captcha test.

You can use a tinymailto URL to put it in public places, like web pages, forum/e-mail signatures, etc. If someone wants to get your e-mail address, the person must pass a Captcha test in order to view and use your e-mail address.
This way, you can protect your e-mail address from spammers and web robots (web-bots). "

More info at tinymailto.com

DNS back to normal

2006-08-11T16:41:00.000-04:00

The DNS servers around the web seems to be updated now with the normal server IP.
I checked with nwtools and they are ok.

Tinymailto server online

2006-08-10T18:59:00.000-04:00

The tinymailto.com server is back online!
If you still see the temporary page, please wait until your DNS server get automatically updated.

tinymailto server offline

2006-08-10T06:29:00.000-04:00

Today there is a big downtime scheduled to last 8 hours. Starting at 0800 EST time until 1600 EST time (EST time is GMT-4 now).
This downtime is because of a big re-wiring at the streets is done by the electric company.

This re-wiring event has never ocurred in all my live, so its a pretty un-usual event from the electric company. Its a city wide re-wiring and I hope the new wires in the streets will last another few decades too.

Sorry for the problem this may cause :(

Lost code page enabled

2006-08-07T19:36:00.000-04:00

Just enabled the lost-code page, I was developing it...

Usage examples added

2006-08-07T14:41:00.000-04:00

Just added the page "Usage examples".
This will help new users how they can use tinymailto.com URLs.

Tinymailto.com blog launched

2006-08-07T12:18:00.000-04:00

Just a quick blog entry for saying that the tinymailto blog is launched!

Hope you enjoy, it all about fun :)