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Internet Explorer 9 Beta - Features, Images, Video And Offline Installer

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is finally here and after playing with it for a while all I can say is "really impressive", Microsoft has done there homework and the result is a next generation, powerful web-browser ready to take-on the competition. The layout is perfect, speed is awesome and has every aspect of a modern web-browser to make it the user default choice.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Preview

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Download

The IE9 Beta installer is now officially available for public download and can be grabbed from the direct download links provided below, the web-installer stub is just 2.37 MB in size which downloads the remaining setup files (roughly 24 mb on Windows 7 32bit) and surprisingly requires a system reboot to install (the only web-browser to do that).

IE9 Setup

Watch Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launch Event "Beauty Of The Web" Live Webcast

As scheduled Internet Explore 9 Beta launch event is hours away, it is crucial to see how IE9 Beta performs on user expectations deciding the future of web-browser wars. If you are keen to watch the launch event online you can tune into the live webcast streaming at the links provided below.

IE9 Beta Live Webcast

Google is making our brains dumber !

Google BrainIf you ask "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" the answer is "Yes" if Nicolas Carr, the author of book 'The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains' is to be believed. According to Nicolas the internet is making our brains dumber by depriving the exercise it needs, although a recent article published by Carr did used the title "Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains" the article is not specifically targeted at Google, but at the whole effect of Internet which has made our lives so much easier negatively impacting our memory retention capabilities.

Google is making us dumb

PickBrowser - Handy Utility Lets Users Select Webbrowser Of Choice To Open External Links

If you have more than one web-browser installed on your computer at-times you might prefer a particular one to be used when launching an external link, and to cater to this situation we have nice little handy utility called "PickBrowser" - well adhering to it's name it lets users pick the browser they want to use when opening an external link. Once installed PickBrowser will be made your default-browser and all clicks to external links will launch PickBrowser window, from which you can select the browser of your choice to launch that link.

Default Browser Switcher

Another nifty feature of this utility is AutoPick which lets users configure Domain Filtering letting users target a browser to open links to a specific domain automatically without interaction.

Burnbit - Free Online HTTP To Torrent Maker Supporting Live Status Download Buttons

BitTorrent is usually associated with piracy but the technology is also used for distributing large files efficiently reducing the load on file-hosting server, We have blogged about Torrent2Exe, Torrent To Http and even hybrid torrent file-sharing, brand new experimental "HTTP To Torrent" service Burnbit should fill-in another gap aiming towards the goal of popularizing BitTorrent usage for distributing legit files using the protocol.

Burnbit Http To Torrent Converter

What Burnbit does is that it allows users to convert direct http download links to torrents offering faster downloads to user at the same time reducing the load on server, Burnbit's killer feature is the ability to automatically burn files through "Live Statics Download Buttons" - simply use the button template code pointing the "FILE_URL" variable to your file and it will automatically get burned on first request.

Firefox 4 Preview Build With New Faster JägerMonkey JavaScript Engine Now Available For Download

I am using Firefox 4 Beta 5 and it's noticeably faster than Firefox 3.6, Mozilla is working hard to further enhance the browser performance and a new nightly developer build is now available for download with faster "JägerMonkey JavaScript Engine". The new javascript rendering engine is the code-name for the new JIT being developed for Mozilla's JavaScript engine where Jaeger means "hunter" in German.

Firefox Minefield

Download Firefox 4 Beta 5

Firefox 4 Public Beta 5 is finally landed and can be downloaded from the direct links provided below, the latest beta build of upcoming major update to Firefox features a brand new “Firefox Menu Button” which will be replacing the Menu Bar saving screen estate coupled with other new features as listed below.

Firefox 4 Beta 5

Internet Explorer 9 Public Beta Leaked

First public beta of Windows Internet Explorer 9 is going to be released in 7 days from now on September, 15, but it seems the IE9 Beta Installer is now leaked outside Microsoft as a website claimed to have the setup also posting the video below demoing the release.

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