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Clipart and vector graphics are required in everyday needs starting from attention garbing articles to charts. Microsoft Office offers both clipart and images

But as we all know Office suite comes at a cost. So your quest for economical or free clipart and vector images continues. Today I am going to share with you a site which offers you free high quality clipart and vector images. Just visit: http://www.openclipart.org/ and click on clipart you want to download and click on the download button and save your file on your computer.

One can even contribute to the library by signing up and uploading their work. I assume only original work is accepted. They have nice help section.

Microsoft is trying hard to get its Internet Explorer (IE) users to upgrade to IE8. Though the competition in the browser market has become fierce with Firefox and Google Chrome. Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned to retain the # 1 position in the browser market. Probably this is reason that they want IE9 out in market soon. Let me splash the story for you then. IE9 is in testing mode now. Even with IE9 Microsoft is trying to drive its new OS Windows 7. Because IE9 will not work with Windows XP which hold around 58% OS market share world wide now. IE9 is bringing many new path breaking features like Flying Images, Text Size Animated, Test Justification Animated, Map Zooming, Pulsating Bubbles etc.

IE9 will also bring in the new standard of HTML called HTML 5, CSS3, DOM events and DOM style, GPU power graphics offered by HTML 5.

System Requirements

Internet Explorer Platform Preview requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista SP2. That is IE9 will most probably run only from Windows Vista SP2 onwards.

- For Vista users, Windows Internet Explorer 8 and DirectX 2D (D2D) must be installed on your system. If you’re not already running Internet Explorer 8, download and install it first. Then install DirectX 2D by installing the Platform Update for Windows Vista, available on Windows Update.

To test and see first hand whats coming up in IE9, visit IE9 platform preview. Read more about the IE9 features. For more info you can also visit IE9 FAQ. To get a developer prospective on Internet Explorer, you can visit the MSDN IE blog.