I bet some of you have noticed Microsoft just released the latest beta version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, a few days ago.

You might be wondering how good/reliable/secure/user-friendly is this latest version of the most widely used web browser as compared to its closest rival, Firefox. Well, Networking Pipeline has written a very thorough comparison of the Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 and Firefox 1.5.0.2.

The following are the break down of all chapters of the review :-

• Facing Firefox – A brief introduction of the comparison between Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2
• Standards And Tabs – Comparison of basic features of web browsers between them.
• Security Matters – Compare both of them in term of security measures.
• Conclusions – Sums up the all comparisons and gives some insights of IE7 beta 2’s short comings.

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IE7 Beta 2 Compared To Firefox 1.5.0.2

I’m back with a bad news to whom using pirated copy of Windows operating system. Finally, Microsoft has decided to put up a message on the login screen for every pirated Windows user.

Quoted:
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of local PC users running pirated Windows operating systems will soon face the shame of being reminded of their illegal action every time they switch on their machines.

Face the shame? Not sure about this but I suppose the anti-piracy message will be very annoying.

This anti-piracy message will appear after the next Windows update commencing today (April 26, 2006). At the moment, only users of pirated Windows in the following five countries will experience this “new” and “special” feature, they are United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia.

Well, Windows with this “special” feature can still receive software update, but not allowed to upgrade Internet Explorer to version 7 and download Windows Defender.

For more information, read the source.

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Just for your information, Microsoft just delayed the release of Windows Vista, the upcoming version of Windows desktop operating system. Windows Vista will only be available until January 2007.

Microsoft previously set the release date for this major update in fourth quarter of 2006, now we will have to wait another 10 months or so. It’s in the 5th year now since Microsoft released Windows XP in late 2001. No other choice but to wait.

So, what you can do now is to have a look of the forthcoming Windows, like which might be their new Start button. Would you want to know why Windows Vista is better? Take a look of its features and some cool stuffs. Last but not least, read the review of Windows Vista if you want to know more.

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I stopped blogging for 1 week or so but Google just can’t stop releasing new services. Here is another great one.

Google launched its latest service yesterday called Google Finance. It’s an online financial news portal that provides corporate news, information and graphs, and blog entries regarding the specific stock you are looking for. I believe this new Google service is going into direct competition withYahoo Finance, which I patrol quite frequently for stock information. The reason behind launching this cool service is the increase in Internet usage by investors in searching for stock information.

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Google Finance – Personal Online Finance Website

Hi all,

Just giving you all a brief introduction of my first every WordPress plugin – Submit It.

Introduction

Submit It helps reader to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin. For example, if your reader has an account at Del.icio.us and would like to bookmark one of your post, he/she just have to submit the post via the link in this plugin. in other words, Submit It offers you or your reader a fast way to bookmark a post.

The feature of Submit It is as follows :-

• WordPress 2.0 compatible
• XHTML compatibled codes
• Just add 1 line of code to use this plugin
• Layout customization using CSS
• Services included in this plugin :-
  • Technorati
  • Feedster
  • Bloglines
  • Del.icio.us
  • Spurl
  • Furl
  • Simpy
  • Blink
  • Digg

Requirements

This plugin was tested using WordPress 1.5.2 and 2.0.1, so it should work on any recent WordPress 1.5+ version to the latest version. If you are using an older version, I recommend that you to upgrade to the latest version.

Installation

Only 2 steps :-

• 1. Download the Zip file and extract everything and put them into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress administration page.
• 2. Put < ?php add_submit_it(); ?> into your template (usually index.php or single.php)

You should see the following file structure in your /wp-content/plugins/ folder :-

• plugins folder
  • submititicons folder (containing all icons)
  • submitit.php
  • submititstyle.css

That’s it. :)

Please feel free to leave your blog address in the comment, I will list all the blogs using this plugin for free advertisement.

• Hi Tech Blog

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Hi everyone,

I’m so glad I finished my first ever WordPress plugin today. I named it Submit It.

Submit It is just a simple plugin as shown in the picture. You can try it out at the end the written artile in any post. The plugin will insert some pieces of codes in every single page to show the links. Basically, the plugin allows you or your readers to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin.

I saw these links in quite a lot of blogs but have not seen any plugin for it. So, I created myself after one of my blog buddies, n305er sent me some of the basic codes. Submit It plugin was created with “easy to use” goal in mind. You just need to put only 1 line of code into the PHP file and start using the plugin.

I will write a detail tutorial of installing this plugin later in a separate page so that everyone can freely download and install it into your WordPress blog.

By the way, I’m not a PHP programmer expert, so if you find any bug or problem using the plugin, please let me know. Fell free to tell me your opinion about this simple plugin as well, like do you find it useful?
Thanks.