Internet Explorer 8 only: Internet Explorer may be the least popular browser among our readers, but weblog IEBlog demonstrates how to determine which add-ons are slowing down your IE page loads with a tool we wish other browsers would pick up on.
Though still very much in experimental mode, a YouTube developer has built a stereoscopic player—a fancy way of saying you can already view some YouTube videos in 3D. The project is open for testing now.
Mac OS X only: Back in January Skype released a beta version of the popular VoIP application that added screen sharing tools, integration with Wi-Fi access service Boingo, better audio and video, and several other improvements. Today Skype 2.8 was released, officially rolling these improvements into the stable release of Skype. If you’d been waiting to enjoy the new features until they left beta, now’s the time. Skype 2.8 is freeware, Mac OS X only. [Skype 2.8 via ReadWriteWeb]
Have you ever wanted to save a segment of video from your favourite DVD for watching later without fast-forwarding all the way through the movie? VLC 1.0 adds a new “Record” feature to help you.
If you were given fifteen seconds to make a successful elevator pitch about yourself, could you? Harvard Business Blog says it’s time to learn how.
Linux only: Video downloading utility UTube Ripper saves a copy of your favourite YouTube videos for your offline viewing pleasure, even converting them into a non-flash format.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing today with the addition of the Moon to their popular 3D map tool, Google Earth.
Windows only: TextDiff is a simple and portable tool for quickly comparing and merging changes in documents and files.
Windows only: Previously mentioned proxy application Hotspot Shield used to be the go-to option for accessing US-only content from outside the US, but now that popular sites like Hulu are wise to Hotspot Shield, give proxy application IP Hider a try.
Reader Alex writes in with his ubergeeky solution for sending a quick email from his Gmail account—a tiny AutoHotkey application assigned to a hotkey.
