The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 10 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about the new up close and personal search assistant for your smartphone and how web browsers may soon be getting along quite happily without plug-ins.

You can also find out about making money from security checks by turning CAPTCHAs into cash machines and obscuring OCR with extremist fonts designed to baffle fly-by bots.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

The Internet Monthly – August 2013:

Or, download: podcast_aug13.mp3 [13' 01'', 6.0MB]

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

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2. SUMMERTIME BUCKET LIST – Things for your kids to do in the summer holidays
   
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   • www.50things.org.uk
     
   
   
   
3. SWIMMING FOR IT – School children raising money for their IT classes by swimming the channel
   
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   • www.camdengirls.camden.sch.uk
     
   
   
   
4. TEACHING PRODUCTIVITY – IT classes to teach more practical skills
   
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   • www.theengineer.co.uk/opinion/technology-drive-must-maintain-credibility/1016683.article
     
   
   
   
5. KEYBOARD COLLEGE – How IT has affected access to higher education
   
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   • americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/keyboard-college
     
   
   
   
6. ANSWERS BY DESIGN – Everything you ever wanted to know about graphic design and marketing
   
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   • tomculture.com/Tom_Book_Reviews.html#ProblemSolved
     
   • www.amazon.co.uk/Problem-Solved-Primer-Branding-Communication/dp/0714864730
     
   
   
   
7. WORKING THE WEB WITHOUT PLUG-INS – Modern web technologies removing need for browser plug-ins
   
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   • www.sitepoint.com/toward-a-plug-in-free-web
     
   
   
   
8. CASH COLLECTING CAPTCHAS – On-line security questions begin generating revenue
   
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   • vimeo.com/15041038
     
   • solvemedia.co.uk/publishers
     
   
   
   
9. THE TYPEFACE THAT HIDES FROM SPIES – Anti OCR type-faces released
   
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   • blogs.walkerart.org/design/2013/06/20/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy
     
   • vimeo.com/42675696
     
   
   
   
10. DESIGN YOUR OWN FONT – Design your own typeface online
    
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    • birdfont.org
      
    
    
    
11. MOBILES ON THE GRAPEVINE – How much does your mobile phone company know about you?
    
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    • www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01crnv1
      
    • www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0378zvg
      
    • www.techradar.com/news/internet/policies-protocols/the-threats-from-free-smartphone-apps-1144154
      
    
    
    
12. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – The search engine that learns
    
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    • noot.com
      
    
    
    

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This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.

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