By following these simple steps you can get Yahoo! Mail beta.

1. Log in to Yahoo Mail
2. click Options
3. select Account information from the left panel
4. go to Member Information, General Preferences, Preferred Content
5. select, for example, Yahoo UK
6. click Finished
7. go to Yahoo Mail
8. you’ll see a page that says “It’s the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you’re invited.”
9. click on “Try Beta Now”.

via LifeHacker

FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic. It also offers many other services. Here I will discuss the top 12 services that FeedBurner offers.

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Update your Firefox with the latest release from Mozilla, version 1.5.0.3. Firefox might even download the update itself and prompt you to restart the browser. This version fixes the widely discussed vulnerability that allows malicious code to crash the browser.

Keotag is a handy little search engine that searches tags. Search for a term and it searches the tags of some major Web 2.0 services such as Technorati, Blinklist, Del.icio.us, Furl, Google, Digg, Yahoo, Tailrank, Newsvine and many more from one handy interface.

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A new blog search engine launched called Sphere. Sphere, which follows in the footsteps of previous blog search engines like Feedster, Technorati and IceRocket, as well as offerings from Google and Yahoo, is doing things quite a bit differently than its predecessors.

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People like me who use BSNL Broadband have to stay wake till 2 am to start our downloads (for unlimited bandwidth). Do you face a similar problem? Then read on…

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“Starting out with uTorrent, I quickly made connections to the seeders and peers and my download rate quickly rose to 3.5 to 3.7 mB/s stable, with spikes above 4mB/s. This speed lasted for the entire duration of the test and I completed my first download of 3GB in 22:03 minutes.”

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The third point on an article written by Tech-Recipes,Top 10 things you should know about the Digg Effect, says - Digg traffic does not generate new users, comments, or posts.

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My technology news blog- TechnoBytez got PR 4 yesterday. I also noticed that this site had a PR4 for some time.

Also, this time Google has changed the way they rank sites. Google no more gives much importance to backlinks

So what do you think? Is Google really updating PageRank?

Darren Rowse has listed some of the most useful blog tools on his recent post- Blog tools.

Here are some of my favorite tools.

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