IE7 Beta 3

A new beta of IE7 has been publicly released. The new version contains bug fixes as well as a few new features. Here's a list of the main changes.

* All security updates for IE7 released through June.
* The ability to drag-and-drop reorder browser tabs in the tabbed-browsing bar.
* The reappearance of the optional read e-mail button for the customizable "Command" bar, or main toolbar.
* The Web page zoom-in scaling feature adds a horizontal scroll bar automatically.
* A global RSS feed settings dialog.
* A global RSS "refresh now" function.
* Additional work carried out since the Beta 2 release aimed at improving Web-site compatibility.

Go here to download it.

Google to offer free movie downloads

Search giant Google has announced that it is to begin a trial of a new service that will provide movie downloads and other video clips for free. The content on offer includes videos that normally cost around $10, but will be free thanks to advertisers including Burger King and Hewlett Packard getting involved. Initially on offer for trial in the US, the service will be available in the UK, and will initially include old movies, cartoons and television shows. Movies such as Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps or classic Charlie Chaplin sketches will be part of the offering. Felix the Cat also makes an appearance.

A Google spokesman said: "We are always looking for ways to show targeted and engaging advertising to users and we think that Google Video is a natural extension of this ongoing effort."
Currently, it is still a matter of debate whether internet users are willing to pay for download-to-own videos or one-time streaming. Could an advertisement-funded model work out? Many parties are very interested in offering such a service, not just Google, including Disney-owned ABC, maker of Desperate Housewives and Lost, who experimented with free online streaming of some shows.

KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth

Someone just discovered this satellite photo of a KC-135 refueling a C-5 in flight. The plane can be seen on both Google Earth and Google Maps. I can't believe that there are people out there who actually spend time hunting down planes on Google Earth.

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New cell phone to prevent drunk dialing

There just might be no other gadget that has transformed the party scene quite as much as the cell phone. Address books and text-messaging can beef up the attendance of a slow night within minutes. Camera and video features have proven to quite a few of us that no one is safe from having their embarrassing acts--from women dancing on tables to men being caught with cosmopolitans or Smirnoff Ices in hand--captured on digital video.

But the Korean cell phone manufacturer LG Electronics, according to ABC News, has gone a step further with the party gimmicks. LG's LP4100 brand, to be released in the U.S. later this year, not only takes pictures of your friends' bar tricks, it can also ward off two of a wild Saturday night's most undesirable consequences--drunk dialing and DUIs.

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Availabot

The Availabot stand ups when someone comes online and lays back down when they go offline. [via]

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

The top 10 ways to destroy the Earth. Each way is a possibility but most are extremely unlikely to happen. The most likely way the Earth will be destroyed is to just sit back and wait an unimaginable amount of time for it to decay.

[Thanks Steven]

tips...

Interviewer said, "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!"

The candidate thought for a while and said, My choice is one really difficult question"
Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice?" said the interviewer.

Here is your question: " What comes first, Day or Night?"

The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depended on the correctness of the answer to that one question. He thought for a while and said, " target="_blank">It's DAY sir !"

" How?" the interviewer asked.


"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!"


Moral : Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the mastery of simplicity.

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right click > new > text document & call the file as in dos. (type name_of_shortcut_file)
file menu > save as > with .bat extension
for eg:
u hav the shortcut file "rapid.url" in a direcory so save the *.txt file in that direcory with "rapid.bat" & content of file rapid.bat should be "rapid.url"

3. Add this batch file to scheduled task & under the advanced settings choose repeat task every 3-5mins
start > programs > accessories > system tools > schedule tasks.
click "Add Scheduled Task".
click "next" & click "browse".
choose the batch file u just created.
choose "when i log on".
enter "password" if u hv set any
check "open advanced settings when i click finish" & click "finish"
under the schedule tab,
click "show multiple schedules" & then click on "new"
change the start time as u like.
click "advanced" > click repeat task, every 3-5mins & until > duration set 24hrs


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Childless Couple

There once was a husband and wife who were unable to have children. After consulting everyone who would listen to their problem, they were still unsatisfied. Finally, they consulted their family priest. "My children," the priest began, "The Lord will listen to your prayers, and I am sure that you will be blessed with children shortly. In fact, I am planning an extended stay in Rome, and while I'm visiting the Vatican, I will light a candle for you." "Thank you, Father, thank you!" said the couple. Before leaving, the priest turned and said, "I am sure everything will work out just fine for you. My stay in Rome will be for quite some time--15 years. But when I return, I will be sure to pay you a visit." And so, 15 years came and went, and the priest returned to the States. While resting on his porch one mid-summer morning, he remembered the promise of paying a visit that he had made 15 years ago. So he made his way to their home, and upon arriving at the residence of the couple who'd sought his council years earlier, he rang the doorbell. Sounds of crying and screaming children filled the air! Overjoyed by the thought that their prayers had been answered, he entered the house. More than a DOZEN children filled the house from top to bottom! In the midst of all the chaos, stood the wife. "My dear," the priest said, "your prayers have been answered! And where is your husband? I wish to congratulate him too on your miracle!" "He just left for Rome," she said in a very desperate tone. "Rome? Why did he go to Rome?" asked the priest. "To blow out that candle you lit!"

Nehru against Reservation

Look what Nehru said against Reservation....and Now Congress doesn't care about their own principles, just for the sake of Votes...

Golfing Preist

A fellow is getting ready to tee-off on the first hole when a second fellow approaches and asks if he can join him. The first says that he usually plays alone but agrees to let the second guy join him. Both are even after the first couple of holes.

The second guy says, "Say, we're about evenly matched, how about we play for five bucks a hole?"

The first fellow says that he usually plays alone and doesn't like to bet, but agrees to the terms. Well, the second guy wins the rest of the holes and as they're walking off of the eighteenth hole, and while counting his $80.00, he confesses that he's the pro at a neighboring course and likes to pick on suckers.

The first fellow reveals that he's the Parish Priest at the local Catholic Church to which the second fellow gets all flustered and apologetic and offers to give the Priest back his money.

The Priest says, "No, no. You won fair and square and I was foolish to bet with you. You keep your winnings."

The pro says, "Well, is there anything I can do to make it up to you?"

The Priest says, "Well, you could come to Mass on Sunday and make a donation. Then, if you bring your mother and father by after Mass, I'll marry them for you."

FANAA and Narmada

Well, there is now one more illustration now which says how corupt our democracy is.. how crippled it has become. Perhaps, the title is suggestive enough of what I am going to write about. I am of course, talking of the BJPs denial of allowing Aamir-Kajol starrer “FANAA” to release in Gujarat.
I, ofcourse, am not equipped enough to comment on what is right and what is not. And I even confess I am not much aware of what exactly is happening in Narmada Bachao Andolan. But, I am writing what I have seen in the course of events. What I infer from media reports is that excess water from the Narmada Dam is flowing through villages and some 30,000-36,000 villagers have lost their houses, their fields and their livelihood.
Of course, crores of people are profiting from the Narmada dam, but at the cost of the lives of those villagers. And this is definitely not right. Their rehabilitation is a must and about a month back, the Hon’ble Supreme Court issued orders for rehabilitation to be completed in 3 months.
Now, I come to Aamir Khan. He is famous star with the air of a perfectionist acting. He has raised the issue that they should be rehabilitated and it should be seen that all the villagers get their rights. His stand is pretty clear. Its not against anybody or any party. Its against injustice meted out on those innocent denizens of the village.
Now, BJP has found a new way of shutting his mouth. By disallowing FANAA to release in Gujarat. And they will allow it only when Khan apologizes. I wonder what they see wrong in his stand. I mean I don’t know Indian politics but am aware that injustice is rampant and something should be done wherever it is meted out. Already, we see our WONDERFUL government (the UPA - Congress) are already with a bill to implement 27 per cent reservations for OBC and reduce the standards of education and now this.
How corrupt the system has become.. I know it is easy to sit and comment rather we must do something.. But, if the constitution itself binds citizens in such a way, perhaps, its dictatorship. I know my words could portray my amateurish thinking, but well, that is what I feel about it.

Wife & Mistress

A man wanted to determine if both his wife and mistress were faithful to him. So he decided to send them on the same cruise, then later question each one on the other's behavior. When his wife returned, he asked her about the people on the trip in general, then casually asked her about the specific behavior of the passenger he knew to be his mistress. "She flirt with nearly every man on the ship," his wife reported. The disheartened man then rendezvoused with his cheating mistress to ask her the same questions about his wife. "She was a real lady," his mistress said. "How so?" the encouraged man asked. "She came on board with her husband and never left his side."

Spelling!

Agatha's 5-year-old developed a strong interest in spelling once she learned to spell STOP. After that, she tried to figure out her own words.

From the back seat of the car she'd ask, "Mom, what does fgrpl spell?"

"Nothing," Agatha said.

Sitting at breakfast she'd suddenly ask, "Mom, what does doeb spell?"

"Nothing," Agatha answered.

This went on for several weeks.

Then one afternoon as they sat coloring in her room she asked, "Mom, what does lmdz spell?"

Agatha smiled at her and said, "Nothing, sweetheart."

The 5-year-old carefully set down her crayon, sighed and said, "Boy, there sure are a lot of ways to spell 'Nothing'!"