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The new site has been “five years in the making” and offers a cleaner interface, more personalisation options, one-click news submission, and an improved “leader board” for the most active Digg users.

The redesign is suppose to be “drastic” and could “shock” some users and will focus more so on real-time news and recommended content. Stories will also be able to be dugg anonymously too which is expected to increase the amount of stories submitted from 20,000 a day to “millions”.

Digg fans can preview the new site by signing up here.

This update will appear on Windows XP, Vista and 7 computers which have Internet Explorer as the default browser. After running the tool, users will see a screen where they’ll have to pick from a collection of five popular browsers: IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. These will be listed in a randomized order and are all accompanied by buttons allowing users to gain more information. Another seven different browsers are also available if the user doesn’t so wish to use any of these 5.

Microsoft VP Dave Heiner explained that the roll-out of the browse choice tool will begin 1 March as an automatic update. It will run automatically if WIndows Update is set to install updates without confirmation.

Estate Agent’s aren’t taking humorously to the app though as it may put people off buying in areas where the app thinks are troublesome.

Technology writer Drew Cullen told The Sun: “It’s the quickest way to find out how chavvy your town is.”

The app is free to download on iPhone and Google’s Android system and uses postcodes to provide information.

Ranked highest is South Korea, which has a recorded average of 14.6 Mbps. In second place is Japan with a reported average of 7.9 Mbps. Taking the top spot for Europe is Sweden with a respectable score of 5.7 Mbps average, with Ireland’s 5.3 Mbps closely behind.

Other reports such as the ones done by Broadband.co.uk have reported the UK to having speeds closer to 4.478 Mbps. However, this still would of not placed the UK in the top 10 fastest countries.

You can check your broadband speed by running the test by clicking here.

As long as you have a college or university e-mail address will be able to buy Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional for the discounted price £30/$30.

The offer will be available until 3rd of January 2010 whereas Canada, France, Germany, Korea and Mexico have also been reported to of received the same offer but with different pricing and will be released at a later date. 

If you’re interested in the offer and are based in the UK you can find out more here and if you live in the US here.

According to Yusu Mehdi who is a senior vice president at Microsoft, what Visual Search offers over normal search methods are rows of images that can be scrolled through using a well implemented interface. After doing a search the user will be presented with the traditional results, but located on the left hand side an option to "Visualize" the search will be given.

By clicking the link you’ll be taken to the new Visual Search page, which will present you with images. You will also be allowed to customize your search by adding criteria such as price movie theater and other various preferences.

According to Microsoft, some customers will be able to access Visual Search before others. However it’s estimated that by the end of September the feature will be available to everyone. 

Mozilla reckon that given enough effort, some of the bugs that have been patched could be exploited to run arbitary code. The update for Firefox 3.5x aims to fix the crashes users have been experiencing and so far the most likely canditate for the crashes it memory corruption.

Among the bugs that have been fixed was the fact that the default Windows font which is used to rended the location-bar and various other text fields had been displaying certain Unicode characters incorrectly. The fear was that an attacker could use this to hide the URL of a malicious site from the user.

Firefox 3.0.14 and Firefox 3.5.3 can be downloaded here.

The update to Spotify’s Terms and Conditions of the new mobile app was spotted by an eagle-eyed twitter user, the update states that up to 3 computers will be able to store the cached songs.

This comes handy to any users who don’t have a constant internet connection, such as laptop users who will be able to store their playlists and listen to them on the move.

"As a subscriber to the Premium Service, you are permitted to store such cashed content on up to three PCs. If you are a subscriber to the Mobile Premium service, you are permitted to store cached content on up to three PCs and three mobile handsets," 

"You may not transfer copies of cached content to any other device via any other means."

This goes someway to making Spotify’s premium accounts more appealing, which the current lack of ads not enticing that many people.

The driver fixes a couple of bugs as well as adding some minor optimizations for Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darkest of Days. Support for Microsoft’s new DirectX GPU Computing API: DirectCompute, which has WHQL certification has also been added.

The PhysX system software has also been upgraded to version 9.09.0184 WHQL.

The updated driver is available for download here.