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Taking a break from taking a break

It's midsem time in Kharagpur. I have this kind of routine: (fasten your seatbelts) 2 exams the first day, 1 exam on monday evening and then 2 again the next day. (Well, the last exam may get postponed, heres to hoping it will). So what's new? Well, I got rid of AVG and installed Windows OneCare Live beta. I like the app. And the look and feel is gorgeous! Those who accuse Microsoft of having terrible sense about gradients take a look at this application! My internet explorer 7 beta 2 preview causes the uninstaller of Norton Antivirus 2005 to start every time it completes a download and before it copies it off to the destination location. This may be because it detects Norton is 'still installed' so it wants to virus check the file before copying it. However my Norton is cooked - a virus killed it off so completely,.. well that's a long story. Photon has blogged about good 3D artists . Nice post. Lots of videos on Channel 9 about Mix06. I made a wallpaper on Visual

The cute little border with drop shadow.

I just installed Internet Explorer 7. It rocks. Coming to the title of the post. If you open up ieframe.dll with Reshack, you can go to UIFILE group, resource 20485 (language: 1033: en-us) you get an xml file that looks like some file that controls layout of the IE controls. Haven't tried tweaking it yet, but that is high on my priority list. In that xml file, in a comment on line 58 is the following: This element hosts the cute little border w/drop shadow around the main layout Well, I guess that either some designer wrote this, or some coder has a crush on someone in the design team! Okay, fine, back to business. What I liked and hated in IE7, and what bugged me. What I liked Multiple tabs. Close Tabs with middle click / close button. HUGE new favourites pane which is FLOATING, not docked. Built in RSS, though the default refresh period is set to 1 day - duhh. Gone is the menubar. Quick Tabs. Too good. Killer app. New set of icons. The fact that none of my HTML 4.01 or my XHTML w