Microsoft is “locking down” Internet Explorer 7 for shipping, and Markus Mielke, Program Manager for Internet Explorer, has posted some good information on IE7 CSS changes at the Microsoft Developer’s Network.

 If you’re a blogger (and,hopefully, more serious about it than I am), you should check out the free Beta of Windows Live Writer.  What, you ask, is Windows Live Writer?  Writer is a desktop blogging client with features that some bloggers will love.  It can be used to write to a number of blogs, including those created with Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, WordPress, Movable Type, and others. It lets you save blog entries as drafts, write them in a WYSIWYG environment, and upload pictures to your blog (depending on your blog settings).

You can read more about Windows Live Writer and download a free copy here.

If you’re a Dreamweaver user, MM-Exporter is an essential utility, and a bug-fix version has just been released. You can download the latest version (it’s free) from:

http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/