Uninstall IE8 and Rollback to IE7

I recently installed the new Internet Explorer 8 to try some of its new features but was soon disappointed. There were many bugs causing many sites to not work and some sites were not being displayed properly. The browser would just crash at times, so I decided to go back to Internet Explorer 7.

I uninstalled IE8 from Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs>Add/Remove Windows components. After that when I tried to install IE7 I was faced with the following message
"Setup cannot continue because a more recent version of Internet Explorer has been detected on this computer".

It turns out IE8 does not get completely unistalled and to completely remove it you need to run the spuninst.exe found at this location: "C:\WINDOWS\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe". Once complete it will ask to restart and after that you can install IE7 once again.

Measure your net speed online

The internet speed is not always same and changes very often throughout the day. Often times we would like to measure our internet speed and see how fast it is.

Speedtest.net is a nice site made in flash which allows internet users to measure their download and upload speed from their computer to anywhere in the world.


Since different parts of the world have varying network speed at a given time we need to measure our speed to a particular location. Select the city to which you would like to measure your speed. The tool then starts by measuring the latency (round-trip time) and then continues to measure the download and upload speeds.

After the tests complete, results are displayed as shown below with links that can also be shared with others.


I currently use 1 Mbps broadband connection and my speed of 831 kbps measured to Singapore seems good as I am getting 83% of my download bandwidth. And about 80% of upload bandwidth.

Google finds 1 trillion URLs on the internet

I read an interesting post in Google's Official Blog, Google has found 1 trillion (thats one followed by 12 zeros) unique URLs on the internet. This number has grown from 1 billion in the year 2000.
It was just yesterday that I could finally Google my blog and around the same time Google finds 1 trillion sites on the web, maybe it could just be that my site is the 1 trillionth site in this world to get indexed [:P].

Google finds and index pages by following through links to reach other sites. It says that there are actually more than 1 trillion sites it has found but they are not unique and contain copies and so it cannot say the exact number of unique URLs out there. And not every 1 trillion pages get indexed, since many of the sites are similar to each other and represent auto generated content.