Microsoft made their next browser version, Internet Explorer 8, available for download on Wednesday. It’s still an early beta release but could prove useful for designers and developers as they now have some time to adapt their websites to yet another IE browser.

According to recent MS blogs IE8 will be more focused on staying with the web standards. However, you can also make it render pages like IE7 and also like it did in older versions. Hopefully most people will stick with the forward compatible mode so that designers for once can have only one stylesheet for media/screen and one for print (wishful thinking ).

On a side note, even though IE8 passed the Acid2 test, they still struggle with the new Acid3 test recently made available by WaSP. Let’s hope Microsoft manages to improve the code before releasing their first RC.

Whether you’re an organizational pro or can’t spell GTD, with EverNote you can capture what you like and find it any time. Our intuitive UI and advanced recognition allow you to capture and search through notes, mobile phone snapshots, web page clips, images of printed and handwritten text, emails, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents, and much, much more.

Features

• Create notes with text, snapshots, web clips, handwriting, and digital ink
• Sync snapshots from your mobile phone or PDA
• Search through text, images, notes, and more
• Share your notes with friends via email and IM
• Use Google Desktop Search® to quickly find notes
• Organize and categorize notes manually or automatically

For more information and to download your free copy visit Evernote.com.

Subbmitt is a social news site for those addicted to news. It is a great place to read and share articles, photos or videos. If you see an article that you want to share with your friends, why not share it with the world?

You can submit articles to 26 categories containing photos, videos or new stories from any site you want. You can even submit articles without signing up. Articles are sent to the queue where Subbmitt quickly approve or disapprove within 30 seconds. They only disapprove SPAM or anything deemed illegal.

On the internet, democracy is overrated. On many sites, you rate, or rank stories based on user votes. This approach fails to account for the douche bag factor of those who band together and vote for the same article just to move it to the front page (e.g. Digg, Reddit). At Subbmitt, everyone gets their fair webtime instead. This means that you won’t waste your time posting articles that no one will ever see.

All articles will make it to the front page. They rotate articles from the queue to the front page every minute. This approach keeps the website from becoming a stale and boring one like many other ones.

So to get your story on the front page (for a change)  just subbmitt it…

Bubbles is a desktop application that allows you to work with your web resources in the way you want to work with them.

Features

• Keep your favourite websites like Flickr and Google Calendar a click away, on the system-tray.
• Enjoy new features in existing web-sites with Smart-Bubbles.
• Enhance your browsing experience with notifications, drag & drop and shortcut-menus.
• Avoid the clutter of the browser, focus on your web-sites.

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For more information and to download the latest version visit 3d3r.

A while back I wrote a post about the 20 worst Engrish ever. Today I discovered that Engrish.com has created a new section called Chinglish, which is well worth your time this Sunday if you’re not planning on going outside for a while…

China is apparently trying to clean up their Engrish before the Beijing Olympics this year, but this section has enough Chinglish to last way past the Olympics. Enjoy!