Microsoft Latest Web Browser "Internet Explorer 8"

Microsoft launches their latest version of Web browser which is the “Internet Explorer 8 RC1”. It was made available in the market last January 27, 2009. With this latest technology, Microsoft users will surely enjoy surfing with the IE RC1 because of its innovative features built into it such as:

Smart Address Bar
The address bar isn’t now just a place to type URLs into. The Smart Address bar in IE8 tries to make sense of what the user is looking for by retrieving sites visited from the history and bookmarks. This is handy for those times when you want to find something but can’t remember where you saw it.

Enhanced find
Sometimes it’s not finding the site that’s difficult, but finding where on the page you need to look for the information that you are after. IE8 offers a broad range of enhanced and improved tools to help you spot the information you are after. One such example if this is result highlighting.
Tab groupsWhen one tab is opened from another one, the new tab is placed next to the one from which it was opened, and both are marked with a colored tab. This is a good way to keep track of your open tabs.

InPrivate
Along with keeping track of stuff that you might later want to refer back to, IE8 also gives you powerful tools that allow the browser to have temporary amnesia in relation to the sites you’ve visited by temporarily halting the writing of information to the cache and history.

Crash recovery
If your IE locks up of crashes while you’ve a shed-load of tabs open, with IE8 there’s a good chance that when you fire up the browser again that it will remember what what sites you had open and fire them up again. It can also reload information that you had typed into forms.
So, Guys come on let’s take a first look with “Internet Explorer 8”.

Download Day for Windows 7 Beta.

How to get Windows 7 beta for free.

Here's how...

Matt Buchanan over at Gizmodo has posted a down n’ dirty guide to getting your grubby hands on Windows 7 without jumping through too many hoops Microsoft positions in front of you. But his guide is a bit long, and now that the beta is available to anyone, I thought I’d offer a quick, printable cheat sheet:
Meet the requirements1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor; 1 GB of system memory; 16 GB of available disk space; Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable Aero); DVD-R/W Drive.

Get the betaChoose either the 32 or 64-bit version at Microsoft’s own site here. (Buchanan says: If you have 4GB of RAM or more, get 64-bit.) After submitting a Live ID and answers to informational questions from Microsoft, you’ll be taken to a download page with a product key. (Direct links to the 32-bit image file and 64-bit image file.) If all else fails, or you miss Microsoft’s Jan. 24 deadline, resort to BitTorrent for “Windows 7 Beta 1, build 7000.” You will still need a product key.
Prepare your systemAs a beta, you should not install Windows 7 as your primary OS. You should have your system dual boot. You can do so by partitioning your drive (if using a single drive, note that Windows 7 requires minimum 16GB). In Vista, run “Computer Management” from the Start Menu and finish the partition process using Disk Management. Using XP, Buchanan recomments the GParted Live CD, which you burn to a CD, restart, boot from disc, and partition.
Introduce Windows 7 Beta 1 to your systemThe easiest way to get Windows 7 on your system is to make a disc by burning the image to a DVD. If you’re installing Windows 7 on a Mac (you wild one!) you can burn the image to DVD with Disk Utility. If you’re OS agnostic — or are planning to install to Netbooks or a Macbook Air, how bold! — place it on a 4GB USB 2.0 flash drive for installation, using a mounting program such as Daemon Tools for Windows or MountMe for Mac. Format the flash drive in FAT32, mount the Windows 7 image, then copy everything over to the flash drive.

Install itBoot from your medium of choice, follow the wizard, and install Windows 7 to your clean partition (”Custom installation type”). On a Mac, Boot Camp Assistant will take you through the process. Make sure it’s the correct partition — or else you’ll install over your current OS.
Verifying driversAs with any new OS, you should check how many drivers made it without problem, and correct as needed. (Mac users, take note: you must install drivers from your OS X disc. If you’re running 64-bit, download the Boot Camp 2.1 update.)
Patch your installationOf course, even a beta has patches waiting for it, so check out what Microsoft’s got before you start rolling with your new OS. (Example: A corrupted-MP3s-in-Media-Player issue, solved here in 32-bit and 64-bit.)
…and that’s it!

For those who wants to experience the latest Operating System of Microsoft you have to try it very soon the Beta version download will last only until February 10, 2009. So don’t wait for its cut-off date, try it now.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

Firefox 3.1 beta 3 now due Feb 2.

The delivery of Firefox 3.1 beta 3 has slipped a week to Feb 2.
The final beta for the .1 update was expected to ship Jan 26.
“Due to the large number of outstanding P1 blockers, we are declaring a code slip,” the developers’ meeting notes declared Wednesday after the weekly meeting.

The code freeze was expected on Jan 13. But Mozilla developers saw a delay coming. At last week’s meeting, the crew decided that the nuber of P1 blockers was still substantial and one developer hinted that it coud be delayed by as much as three weeks.
In light of that, this week’s update — a slip of only a week — is optimistic. Now, the code will freeze on January 25 and QA begins on January 27.

I got this article from http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source.