IE8 beta team wants to know why you would be a great beta tester for their upcoming IE Beta 2 release. Are they serious? Though widely used stats still shows that IE has the largest browser share, the gap between IE and Firefox is too close for comfort. I won’t be surprised if FF takes the browser share lead by the next major release. Yet IE team has the audacity to cherry pick beta testers for a free product, that is going to be released soon.

When pressed about it on comments and asked why they don’t follow examples set by success full projects (read FF) and have a publicly accessible bug tracking tool; they argued that the IE users are hundreds and millions in numbers and they would easily litter bug tracking database with “stupid” bug reports. They insists that there is a problem with mozilla bug database is that it is way too easy to file a bug report. This is too funny, you have to read their reply to comments to understand how close-minded their product development process is. Sometimes I wonder how many software developers actually work on IE.

Is this going to be the last year for IE with majority of the browser market share? They should enjoy it while it lasts.

On a separate note, here is a list of top 3 browsers (different versions) comparison on standards support.

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For a command-line junkie like me, this is a geeky fun way to scan your system with spybot with CMD, with few easy parameters. For a spyware only version of the scan I used this parameters:
“C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search &
Destroy\SpybotSD.exe” /taskbarhide /autoclose /autocheck /autofix /onlyspyware

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If you have been using windows long enough, you should know by now that windows disk defragmenter shipped with the OS is less than optimum solution for your disk defragmentation problem. Disk fragmentation, existing in all modern OS, does not effect system the way NTFS based windows system gets effected. Although with each iteration of windows OS fragmentation of system file has been minimized, it still possess a problem big enough for commercial Disk Defragmenter program to do a profitable business.

Diskeeper, which sells a dumbed down version of it’s program which gets shipped with Microsoft OS, along with PerfectDisk are the leading commercial defragmenter out there. While there has been many free alternative, nothing was good enough to rival their performance, until now. Defraggler is a free disk defragmenter, which is not only a free alternative to commercial counterparts but also very good at it’s job. Defraggler is brought to you by the same guys who made CCleaner, a useful file and registry cleaning software.

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