I searched for the word "hungry" and was offered "Hungry like the wolf' and "So hungry I could eat a horse". Not bad. Except I'll be hummin' that Duran Duran song all day now!

It works by overwriting the data with "carefully selected patterns". Eraser has had over 4 million downloads on Sourceforge, which is nothing to sneeze at, and reassuring when you're dealing with data removal. A handy utility for many reasons, but most widely, as a way to wipe a computer before selling, I think.

View and download link: Retro Toast Lives!

Create your own Simpson's trailer.

tehBubbleGenerator - upload the picture of your choice, add a speech bubble, add your custom text, save to use as you like or email to a friend through BubbleGenerator.

Top 5 Mythbusters Segments.

History of Computers as seen in computer ads.

Top 10 Blue Screen's of Death.

IEBlog : Must Have Add-Ons for IE7 - from the IE Blog, a look at some of the new Add-Ons available for IE for web development, security, sharing etc.

Note that MS is planning to send the IE7 update out as a high-priority update. I guess that's a matter of opinion ;)

On a related note, AVG released v7.5 yesterday, which offers some more functionality, better detection algorithms, smaller installation/update files, Vista readiness and a refined interface (the icons are much improved and definitely nicer looking!0.

Delicious Link Checker is a similar (Perl) tool.

IE7 final is available for download now on the Microsoft site and according to the IEBlog, will be pushed to users through Automatic Updates a couple of weeks after it is available for download. The IEBlog also helpfully outlines the changes in IE7.

To install IE7 for testing and retaining IE6 for testing, there is are some IE7 standalone solutions here and here.

Of course, once installed, the time comes for addressing rendering issues in IE7, while keeping the site in one piece in IE6 and earlier versions, as well as all the other browsers out there.

The consensus seems to be that Conditional Comments are the way to go. The always useful Position is Everything takes a look at CSS Hacks and IE7 and offers solutions for 'going legit'. If you've been a heavy user of the Star * Hack (guilty!), Wither the Star-HTML hack? is a useful read. And also at PIE, PNG Drop Shadows is a good read for taking advantage of IE7's PNG support.

Some more good reading for IE7 preparedness training ...

CSS Hacks
Easy CSS Hacks for IE7
Solving the IE7 CSS Problem
Stop Hacking, or be stopped
IE7 Resources and Information at css-discuss
Clearing floats without structural markup

Finally, I stumbled across this IE7 Quick Reference cheat sheet, which might be useful for some.

That's it for now. I have proclaimed this my personal "check my sites in IE7" day. Taking deep breath ...

In addition, DuggTrends will highlight stories that just missed the front page and those that were buried.

The mirror tab, lists Digg entries that can be filtered by category and number of diggs and offer a duggmirror link as well.

Not only is the new Pageflakes look great, but the 'feel' is just as good. Solid and quick. I'm particularly impressed with the way RSS Feeds are handled. By default, clicking on a item in a displayed feed, opens up the Pageflakes RSS Reader, which offers either a 3-panel Outlook style feed view or a Newspaper view. Each feed can also be set individually to open the original page in your browser or in Pageflakes internal browser.

Other added features include the ability to share pages with the public or with only certain users and 'templates', which are pre-configured pages with items of different themes (entertainment, sports, digg etc).

If you haven't checked out Pageflakes lately, it's worth another look.