Internet Explorer 7 Beta

Has anyone installed and played with IE 7 Beta yet? After viewing some of its new features at the Microsoft CES Keynote, I’d thought I’d give it a chance.

“My first impression, the logo is uglier than before (see above image). Over all though, the interface is a little better than before. Atleast they FINALLY picked up tabbed browsing. As far as adhering to web standards, I haven’t noticed any major quirks, but I haven’t put it through the ringer yet.

One really cool feature that I just love is the Tab Preview Button. If you have multiple tabs open, you can look just to the left of the left-most tab and you’ll see and icon of 4 boxes. Clicking on that icon takes you to a page of preview shots of all the tabs you have open. I’m surprised I haven’t seen this implemented into Firefox as an extension yet. If you can’t seem to go on with life until you have Internet Explorer 7 Beta installed on your machine, you can download it here.

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Domain Names

As many of you know, I’m trying my hand at starting a design/hosting company with my good friend Jim. Pretty much everything is inline to get things moving except for one minute detail. We don’t have a domain name!!!!!!

We’ve been racking our collective brain to come up with something catchy for the last couple of weeks now. I have to be honest, if I have to check Register.com one more time to see if a domain name I like is available, I’m going to change my major to Social Work! Domain squatting is so annoying!

To remedy my recent frustration, I decided to dump my problem on friends, family and generally anyone who would listen long enough. Also, I decided to create a SitePoint contest to get some input from other web designers.

If you have any suggestions for a domain name, please DO NOT POST IT IN YOUR COMMENT. It will more than likely be snatched up before I have a chance to even look at it!!!!