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It was being estimated that this build would actually be released late this summer around August. It looks like the speculators were wrong. It was released today, June 29th, 2006. There are significant changes. One being that you can now move tabs from one place to another. This is one thing that the IE team stated over and over again via their chats as well as the Connect website that they would not be implementing into IE7. It looks like the feedback was overwhelming. They took the advice and suggestions of us, the users and implemented it into a working build of IE7. Now my only gripe here is that I would love it if IE would have the option to middle click on a folder which is located inside the Favorites/Links/Sub-Folder. With FireFox you can easily middle click on a folder located on the Links toolbar and it will open up all of the favorites inside that folder in new tabs. With IE, if you attempt to do this, you are greeted with an explorer pop up with your links in there, no tabs whatsoever.
I’ve already brought this up via Connect and the chats. The IE team again has shot it down and said it will not make it into IE7 but perhaps in future builds. Perhaps if we can garner enough support and votes or something, we can get IE to actually implement this into the next beta. I guess some of you may be thinking, what the hell is the use of that anyway? And that is what I think of when I step out of the box to look at it from the devs point of view. Obviously it isn’t as badly requested as the movable tabs but it is requested. It’s all about ease of use. If you actually started using your Link toolbar, you’d be amazed at how much time you could cut back. I put all of my favorite sites that I visit daily or hourly and also other sites that I often frequent such as finance sites i.e. banking, credit cards, etc. It’s so much easier than going to the favorites, trying to find where you have your folder, and then clicking on the link itself. You just click once right on the link itself, or if you have implemented folders into your Link toolbar then you click the folder, a list of sites drop down, then click on the site you wish to go to. Done, simple as 1-2-3.
Also, there is a bug in that when you have a folder inside the Link toolbar such as: C:\Documents and Settings\User\Favorites\Links\Sub-Folder, any links within that folder you can re-order them via the favorites center however, the re-ordering is not imlemented or changed once you try to view the folder by clicking on it via the Link toolbar.
I have finally brought it up to Max a head dev for the IE team. He is now aware of it and has inputted it into their database. The only thing is, I honestly don’t know if it’s a fixable thing. This bug has actually been around since IE6. That means nobody really uses folders on their link toolbar and or they don’t give a care if the links can be re-arranged or not. Well I do. I truly hope this makes it into future revisions of IE. That’s all for today, my rant is done. Back to work I go.
Watch a quick video tour of Google Checkout
I honestly don’t know what to make of this. Google for one is not actually trying to directly compete with Paypal yet they are, sorta. They are trying to gain market share for shopping carts and payment services but when it comes to p2p payments, like Paypal’s niche market which nobody has a hand in at this moment, Google isn’t going there, yet. That is why they’re coming out saying that they’re not competing against Paypal, which in a sense is true. I would have really liked it if they had came out with their own p2p payment services just as Paypal is doing. Reason being, although I honestly have not have had a bad time with Paypal, yet, there are many people out there who have. I also would love it if there was more options for us consumers as opposed to having only one option. Competition is always better than no competition, if you know what I mean.
According to CNN Money. There are a few problems with the new iPod’s development.
Narrowly rejects strict Net neutrality rules, dealing setback to companies that had made enacting them top political priority.
Can 51 million people be a fad? The executives at News Corp. and MySpace certainly hope not. The article has some interesting statistics of social websites. Unfortunately Digg is not on the list.
Samsung and Toshiba have joined forces to end the format wars for good. They are releasing a hybrid player that plays both Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. But that
â??s not all! Sony and NEC are also releasing a dual-format player of Blu-ray and HD-DVD. This is back-up for Sony, since they did loose miserably with Beta.
Looks like Dell will start selling AMD based machines. This could get interesting.
Many companies today are deciding some of their customers simply aren’t worth the trouble. Thaat’s why many corporations, aided by massive computer databases of customers’ shopping habits, try to separate their profitable from their unprofitable customers. here are some examples of how they treat bad customers differently.
I have to just say that I agree wholeheartedly with this article. Sometimes, you just have to cut your losses. I am not saying to cut the guy off who just ONCE may have gotten upset at his own fault but rather the chronic customers who are always trying to scam you for little things or perhaps even big things.
A list of games available for $8.96 during circuit city’s 4th of july sale.
Here is a list of Nintendo DS games, I’ll certainly be picking up a few.
Nintendo DS
Advance Wars
Asphault GT (DS) – $5.96
ATV Quad Frenzy
Burnout Legends
Dig Dug: Digging Strike
Dragonball Z Supersonic Warriors 2
FIFA Soccer 2006
Finding Nemo
Goldeneye Rouge Agent
Great Juju Challenge
Gulty Gears Dust Strike
Incredibles Rise Of The Underminer
King Kong
Lunar Dragon Song
Madden 2005
Madden 2006
Meteos
Metroid Prime Pinball
Monster Truck
Need For Speed Underground 2
Pac N Roll
Pac Pix
Pokemon Dash
Polarium
Scooby Doo Unmasked
Spongebob Yellow Avenger
Spyro Shadow Legacy
Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge Of The Sith
Texas Hold Em
Tiger Woods 2005
Trace Memory
Ultimate Spiderman
Urbz: Sims In The City