I’m not a fan of applications that use sounds effects, one of the first things I do when configuring a new PC is to set the Windows Sound scheme to ‘No Sounds’. IE7 has the hugely annoying feature where a click sound is made when you click a link with the middle mouse button (this opens the link in a new tab).

My preferred browser of choice is Firefox but working in Web Development I often need to test website across a range of different browser, hence the need to use IE7. So far I have found no way of disabling this infuriating sound! Tortoise SVN is another offending program, there’s nothing worst than having listening to some music interrupted with the ‘Conflicting Files’ sound!

If anyone finds any way of disabling the IE7 noise let me know and you will be my Hero for a whole day!

# Pete Graham

Last weekend I wrote about how to run IE6 and IE7 on the same computer. Now this technique was working very well until I needed to test some CSS modifications that I had made on the phuser interface in IE6. It was then I discovered the standalone version of IE6 has a problem with storing cookies, which (if you excuse the pun) renders it pretty useless for testing sites that require a login.

Thankfully I discovered that tredosoft.com have fixed this cookie problem, they offer a handy windows installer that will install IE3, IE4.01, IE5, IE5.5 and IE6. Wow image the hours and hours of fun you can have with all those different versions of Internet Explorer! Also it’s bound to really impress chicks that you’re running so many versions of IE on one PC, we all know chicks dig website development. So what are you waiting for download it now!

Click the image above to see it in its full resolution glory!

# Pete Graham

I’m back home at my parents house this weekend. I had a bit of spare time of my hands this afternoon so decided I was going to fix the IE6 rendering bug I found yesterday. My parents laptop is fairly new so has IE7 installed, however I’ve discovered a stand-alone version of IE6 on evolt.org. The site also has versions of IE3, 4, and 5 available click here for the download archive. Since the programs are stand-alone they can be run at the same time, which is great if your a developing or testing websites.

# Pete Graham