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Filed under: Design, Internet, Web services

Browsershots: view a webpage in many browsers

Browsershots
Browsershots is a free web service for viewing a website in about 50 web browsers among 4 operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD). This is helpful for checking your web design on multiple configurations without having to use virtual machines or extra hardware and software.

You just enter your URL, check the browsers you want to see, choose extra output options like screen width, color depth, and Javascript version, and then click "Submit."

Your job will be added to a queue so that all of the browser screenshots can be generated, so waste some time for a few minutes. When the job is complete, you'll have a group of thumbnails (one for each browser screenshot).

Clicking a thumbnail will enlarge the screenshot and give you information on the computer and browser that rendered your site. Clicking the screenshot again will enlarge the picture to full size.

Browsershots supports Firefox 3 (on Linux and Windows) and IE 8, but not Safari 3.

[Thanks Jonathan!]

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Web services

Test Everything! - Test your website with over 100 tools

Serving as a webmaster's Swiss Army knife, Test Everything! allows you to run a bunch of different tests on your website and domain name, ranging from Alexa traffic details to CSS validation. To use, simply type in your website's URL, select a category, and check the boxes next to the tests you want to run. When you've selected all of your tests, click the "Test website!" button and wait for your test results to be generated. The Test Everything! site will then return a helpful aggregation of links to each of the specific tests you chose.

While some tests like the "Crapola Web Translator" aren't very useful, Test Everything! lets you run over 100 tests in one fell swoop. Our favorite tests (aside from standard HTML/CSS validation) include "Server Info" which displays info like your webserver's IP address and OS, "Website Speed Test" which shows how fast your specified URLs load, and the "Test your web design in different browsers" test which, well...you know.

[Via makeuseof.com]

Filed under: Microsoft, Browser Tips

Microsoft: download IE7 without WGA validation

IE7Microsoft has released an updated version of Internet Explorer with a few minor changes. For example the menu bar is now visible without any user interaction needed. Oh yeah, and you don't need Windows Genuine Advantage validation to download the software.

Wait, what? That's right, first Microsoft goes and starts selling songs without DRM, and now the company's giving away a flagship program without requiring proof that you paid for your copy of Windows. You'd think the company actually wants people to download stuff.

The move makes some sense. If Microsoft wants to maintain its market leader position, the company might have to reach out to people using unofficial copies of Windows. After all, by Microsoft's own estimates, that could be 35% of all Windows users.

Windows XP users will be able to download Internet Explorer 7 through Windows Update or from Microsoft's IE7 home page.

[via All about Microsoft]

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