Snap has just launched a new service that allows webmasters to use their image preview technology. This new service, known as Snap Preview Anywhere allows visitors to get an image preview of the web site a link goes to when they hover their mouse over the link. The service is completely free and Snap has over 300 million stored web site images, so unless the page is brand new, they will have an image preview of it. These previews only appear for links that direct to other web sites, and webmasters can choose if they want the preview to appear for any external links.

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FireFox 2 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. This is not intended for widepsread distribution, but rather it is targeted to developers, testers, and those who’d like a sneak peak at the upcoming full Firefox 2.0 release. RC 1 is much more polished than the last beta release, and is nearly ready for general use. However, if you do use customizations and extensions, it’s quite likely that a good number of them won’t yet be compatible.

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