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Captcha

A captcha (an acronym for 'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart') is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.

CHMOD

A UNIX command that changes the mode of a file. There are three modes a file can have turned on or off: read ability, write ability, and execute ability. Each mode can be set for either the owner, the members of the owner's group, or all users.

Coupon Code

A coupon is a ticket or document that can be exchanged for a financial discount on a product.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets for a set of formatting rules interpreted by the Web browser (or other client) that may contain the styling and formatting information intended for the presentation of a Web page. The W3C recommends the use of CSS to help keep Web content (HTML/XHTML) separate from its formatting information.

Curl

Allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. For more information please visit http://php.net/curl

cuteFTP

CuteFTP is a file transfer application (an FTP client) developed by GlobalSCAPE sporting a simple Windows-based GUI. Since 1999 there’s also CuteFTP Pro (now called CuteFTP Professional) available which supports more security based features (like SSH).