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It is only somewhat known that ad servers and aggregators track your visits through many different web pages with third-party cookies. But just getting rid of your cookies periodically is not enough to guarantee your surfing habits aren't known: Adobe's Flash player (also active on many web pages) can also be used to track one person's browsing behavior across many sites.

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Here's Tim Sneath's helpful list of some cool new features for Windows 7. Of course a number aren't really new, but those were generally little known!

Also, from TechNet, are these handy Win 7 multi-monitor hot keys:

Win+Home: Clear all but the active window Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window Win+Down arrow: Minimize the active window or restore the window if it's maximized Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the active window to each side of the monitor Win+Shift+Left/Right arrows: If you've got dual monitors, this will move the active window to the adjacent monitor Win+T: Shift focus to and scroll through items on the taskbar Win+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display Win+(+/-):...

It is always neat to learn about time savers and cool new utilities, but THERE ARE SO MANY! Fortunately, Scott Hanselman has compiled a useful list of the essential utilities to get some work done on a new computer and then also, for us developers, the cool dev tools of his choice, vetting them and listing just enough to decide if it is worth exploring.

Microsoft's Developer Site is experimenting with a new look:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbpreview/

What do you think? (My initial reaction is that it is too distracting, sacrificing readability for cute/distracting graphics.)