Quick review of CS3.1 with a few SER findings on the way:
Ive had this for the last 36 hours and been running it non stop since.
Ive NOT had to stop/re-start SER/CS due to captchas not getting recognised / sent back - Not sure if this was a SER Update or CS - but im happy
It plugged straight in - no messing with settings - just selected all captcha types and hit "go"
Im running:
berman hosting 2 Gig RAM package (1gig line - ill probably kill this as its not needed)
had it since christmas (see bit meter2 stats)
SER Setup / settings
50 Niche (see pic at end for submitted/verified link numbers) projects with 3 tiers = 150 running projects
T1 is PR2+ - solve "all captchas"
T2 + T3 - Any PR - dont solve "hard captchas"
Running: Articles, Social Bookmark, Social Network (looking forward to the SEREngine guys release)
Note to SELF: In CS3.1 - just select the above submission types - this should cut down CS type recognition = faster solving times (good thing i wrote this, otherwise i wouldnt have noticed it)
Personal SER Tips:
I kept on getting my proxies google banned for PR checking + captcha calls
Solution: I now use 4 MSN search engines for scraping - my thinking that if MSN has it indexed, theres a damn good chance google has it indexed
A recent SER update also brought out "solve hard captchas" which is an amazing feature for T1 (and saving proxie bans)
I cant do a true comparison of CS3 to CS3.1 as ive have changed a few more settings in SER like verify after 1 day.
However, you can see that since ive had it:
CS Attempted = 22317 out of 23565 (95%)
Captchas logged on SER = 22305 (pretty damn accurate)
AVG CS3.1 solve time = 0.427s
SER with CS3.0
Solve time used to be 0.732s with CS3.0, so thats quite a difference + the solving rate is way more accurate.
Something to play with in SER:
I used to think that more threads = more submissions
but more threads = more CPU = laggy CS
cut your threads down and notice your CS solving time go up = faster submissions = more submissions
Overall VERY happy with the new Captcha Sniper 3.1
Hopes for the future:
Improvement of SocialEngine captcha types (i keep on seeing them and the answers arent great)
Improvement of recaptcha - we can all dream cant we
Collaboration between ALL captcha solvers (not just automatic) to a cloud based system where correct answers are stored which you could then update from
This is an excellent video if your into procrastination or interested in captcha solving (the 3 drunk dudes are pretty funny + lots of google banter):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgGNsPPAfU
Note: This is not a paid advertisement
The last review i done was for a one-off $37 yahoo/hotmail/twitter/tumblr/wordpress account creator - but that user has since been banned.
Only things photoshopped in this pic - my GSA user name taken out (my real name)
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EDIT: How do you get good pics on here? If you want to see it at tinypic the URL is:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=16qgsy&s=6
Cheers.