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Chrome (beta)

Google has rethought the Internet browser — some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel — but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.

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Blogger beta

Blogger beta allows tagging, as well as drag-and-drop layout editing, and it lets you wall off your blog to strangers, but most current Blogger users will have to set up another blog from scratch to try the new features.

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Skype 2 (beta)

Though Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.

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Google Video (beta)

It turns out that an open, sprawling interface works better for a search engine than a video store. Google Video will have to take a few categorisation notes from Yahoo if it's ever going to challenge the iTunes Music Store.

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Adobe Photoshop Express Beta

Though there's a lot to like about Adobe's first stab at online photo editing and sharing, you probably want to wait until the company fixes a few problems with the beta — and defangs its terms of service — before uploading scads of photos to Adobe Photoshop Express.

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Yahoo Mail Beta

Yahoo brings the style and speed of desktop e-mail services to the Web.

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Norton Confidential beta

While Norton Confidential beta from Symantec aims to protect your online transactions, and its antisphishing toolbar compares favourably to Netcraft's own offering, we found the Norton package to be overly large, including many other Symantec applets that seem unnecessary.

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Google Calendar beta

Google Calendar beta is a flexible and easy-to-use online system that lets you juggle multiple events from multiple calendars.

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Google Talk beta

With an interface that lacks ads, the simple Google Talk beta dresses up its features by allowing you to leave and receive free voicemail messages, transfer files, and find out what music your buddies are tuning in to.

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Google Desktop 4 beta

Google Desktop 4 beta is less clunky than its predecessor and we love the zippy search and creative Sidebar Gadgets. Still, we're wary of handing over our computing habits to Google's servers.

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Adobe Lightroom Beta

Adobe answers the Apple Aperture challenge by releasing a public beta of its modest competing product, Lightroom.

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Google Reader Beta

Google's elegant newsfeed manager for Gmail users is friendly for newbies to RSS.

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MSN Kahuna Beta

Kahuna makes Hotmail look and behave more like Outlook.

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Yahoo 360 (beta)

Although blogging is a major part of this service, Yahoo 360 is more of a social networking tool that bundles, perhaps, too many services together.

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Microsoft Antispyware (beta)

Microsoft offers its first, free antispyware app, and so far it looks good.

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Google Desktop (Beta)

With Google Desktop, you can search for files on your hard drive just as easily as you can search the Internet.

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

Microsoft's release should retain its browser base but doesn't yet have enough to lure loyal Firefox users back to Internet Explorer.

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Windows 7 pre-beta (build 6801)

At first glance, Windows 7 appears to be an advanced iteration of Windows Vista, but more consumer-friendly, with many user interface enhancements.

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Mozilla Firefox 2 beta 1

Mozilla releases a Firefox 2 beta intended for the general public. New are antiphishing controls and an automatic session restore feature, plus some enhancements to features seen in the previous alpha builds.

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