Bing is well-known for it's beautiful backgrounds and Microsoft has even released an official RSS powered auto-updating Windows 7 theme catering to the niche, now the Bing Team is all set to take this to a whole new level by utilizing HTML 5, CSS 3 and Internet Explorer 9 hardware acceleration capabilities to offer animated videos and slideshows as search-engine background. This new incarnation of Bing is scheduled to be released by mid-October to public and will also offer the ability to smoothly zoom into details of those hi-def backgrounds. A video demonstration of the new animations and videos can be seen below.

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There are lots of free and paid online photo sharing services, and Yogile is one such service making it incredibly easy to share photos privately and among groups. What makes Yogile different is that it cuts out unnecessary registration pages, passwords, and menus and make it fast and straightforward to put images on the Web.

Apart from it's intuitive interface, Yogile's real strength lies in multi-user support. Once you create a photo album on the service, you get a custom URL that you can share with others you want to upload to your page. There's no need for them to register, and the process is simple, fast, and secure.

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.

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).

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.

If 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.

Since past few days my Windows 7 PC started freezing while using "Windows Photo Viewer" locking up the entire system, I was able to move my mouse and the audio-player continued playing music but Ctrl-Alt-Delete, launch of any application, or shutdown/restart the computer did not worked. The system just froze and the only solution was to do a restart/shutdown using physical power buttons, thankfully we can get rid of this bug using two methods as demonstrated ahead.

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.

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.

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.

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.