Downloaded it Installed it Love it! www.microsoft.com/ie8 Unlike beta 1, I am gladly surprised by this version! IE8 really improve the way you browse the web. The IE team seems to have listened to users more than usual, did a strong research on how people browse the web, and as a result worked a lot...

The CTP of this wonderful blogging tool is now available! Here is a list of new features: Video and Image Publishing Enhancements Upload videos to Soapbox Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles (reflection!) Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox...

Microsoft has just released a new website for .NET developers : the Visual Studio Gallery. http://visualstudiogallery.com You can browse and download existing products & extensions for Visual Studio (any version). In the web category you will find some useful tools and controls: DotNetNuke ReSharper...

A new Live Service is available since September: Live Translator. http://translator.live.com The first thing I noticed is the translation is far from perfect (Okay it is beta...). I like the web page translator : you can change the layout (side by side, top/bottom, hover), when you select some text,...

Expression Studio is available for Premium subscribers to MSDN Visual Studio Team Suite! This is really exciting news !! I already feel more creative... Morover because my Expression Design and Expression Web evaluations has just expired. Expression Studio is a package which includes the following products...

Good news, Enterprise Library 3.0 has just shipped! This new release of Enterprise Library includes (bold = new): Caching Application Block Cryptography Application Block Data Access Application Block Exception Handling Application Block Logging Application Block Policy Injection Application Block Security...

A user at Flickr has posted a full album of Windows Home Server : http://www.flickr.com/photos/65213971@N00/sets/72157594554051272/detail/ Windows Home Server is an upcoming operating system from Microsoft. This solution out of the box is a really easy way to backup and restore your home computers, share...

I've just noticed that a new beta version of the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is available! Not yet final but I like this Web Developer tool. No more toolbar menu in IE but a shortcut button instead, which open the bottom panel, the menu is inside this one now (but I think toolbar will be back...

I saw that DotNetKicks was using the WebSnapr service to embed thumbnails of its Url's and I really liked it. So, last night I created a quick and dirty WebSnapr plugin for Windows Live Writer (beta) that wraps up the WebSnapr service in a simple addin. Here is an example of the thumbnail output...

ZoomIt is a must have free tool for speakers and presenters! Introduction “ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen,...