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Speedtest.net

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I haven’t been there in quite some time so I’ve no idea when it changed, but…
Speedtest.net has improved quite a bit and has an awesome looking interface.

What is Speedtest.net?
Speedtest.net is a free broadband speed test with servers located all over the world. Compare your results with others and easily share them.

Here is my result. What’s your internet speed?

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 chasing Apple's Safari

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I just couldn’t resist this one:
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 chasing Apple’s Safari
You Apple fanboys need to get a grip on reality. They never miss a chance to try and trumpet their supposed superiority. If you look here you’ll see that Safari has a 1.9% share of the browser market and 4.4% of the OS market. That means that even Mac users prefer using Firefox over Safari. It’s just a freakin’ browser guys.
Anyway, if you want to check out MS’s new IE 8 Beta hop on over P.T.’s site for screenshots and here for download links.
I’m gonna pass on this one as I’m already doing Beta testing for MS, I’m using Windows Vista. 😉

IE7Pro 2.1 Is Out

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IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

Se the IE7Pro homepage for info & download.

ShellRunas v1.0, Autoruns v9.13, Process Explorer v11.10 Released

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Sysinternals Freeware updates and 1 new program:

ShellRunas v1.0: ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of the Runas tool to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry. This makes it more convenient than Runas for heavy Explorer users.

Process Explorer v11.10: This Process Explorer update adds a number of enhancements, including support for high DPI, display of paging and standby list sizes on Vista, and display of cycles consumed on threads tab on Vista. It also reports the COM object running inside of Dllhost processes and the tasks running inside of Vista Taskeng host processes in the process view hover tooltip.

Autoruns v9.13: Fixes bug where Autoruns could crash when looking at the icon properties of third-party DLLs.

Jalbum releases new site for personalized photo sharing

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Jalbum sent over this Press Release:

Today, Jalbum.net launches a new site for sharing of photo albums. The new site will enable the extensive Jalbum community to share their created albums, connect with others and explore thousands of album appearances.
Albums can have any look
The endless customization possibilities of Jalbum’s web album software has attracted millions of users who enjoy the control of the output of their online photo presentations. Since Jalbum albums can have any look, the new site will be a place to browse both great photos and the multitude of presentations that users produce with the software.
Photo albums can be placed on any site
With Jalbum, the photo albums can be entire web sites by themselves. Once an album is created, users may publish them to Jalbum’s free hosting alternative or any other site. The new community site will display albums that are hosted anywhere. Jalbum users will always have control of their content which includes the ability to move albums from one site to another. Jalbum will never copyright user images.
“- The Jalbum community is passionate about the presentation of photos. With the release of our new site, we are providing a better way of sharing albums created with our software. As our users often express an interest via images, this site will make it easier for them to connect with likeminded” said David Ekholm, Jalbum’s founder.