Entries tagged with ie - Channel 10

Convert Anything With Zamzar’s IE Plugin

sarahintampa — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:18:00 GMT

Zamzar, the home of the popular online file conversion service, also offers a browser plugin that’s a must-have for any Internet Explorer user. The Zamzar web browser button is a bookmarklet you can add to your bookmarks toolbar folder in your web browser. With the bookmarklet installed, you’re then able to convert any files you find on the web and download them to your computer. To use the web browser button, just click on it when you’re on any website that contains files. Zamzar will auto-detect all the files on the page that can be converted and will highlight them for you. You can then choose which ones you want to convert and what format you want them converted to. You can even use the button to convert online videos from sites like YouTube. (A full list of supported video sites is here). I love this plugin, but I’m not a fan of all the pop-up ads on Zamzar’s website – so be warned. However, I don’t get pop-ups when using the plugin – only when visiting the Zamzar homepage. Still, the plugin is worth the annoyance, I suppose, at least until something better comes along.

Are You Running The Latest Version of Delicious?

sarahintampa — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:00 GMT

According to a post on the Delicious blog, the company has been working on their Internet Explorer add-in quite a bit since its recent launch. The plugin works on IE versions 6 through 8 beta 2, although they point out that the plugin won’t be official on IE8 until the browser is out of beta itself. The blog post mentioned that many people submitted feedback about the plugin and they have been listening and responding. Last week, Delicious released a a major update that fixed a number of the reported bugs. If you have already installed the IE add-on, you may want to make sure that it’s up-to-date. If you haven’t yet installed it, you can do so from here, assuming you have a Delicious account. With the plugin installed, you can save and tag links, search delicious, and even sync your IE favorites to the Delicious service. As far as bookmarking services go, Delicious is one of the best and the site’s makeover only makes them that much better.

If you are using Delicious now, you can join the conversation on the forum where you can share your own thoughts and suggestions.

What’s New in IE8 Beta 2

sarahintampa — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:08:00 GMT

The IE team recently announced the availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest iteration of the upcoming browser which is now available for download from www.microsoft.com/ie8. This new version of IE features several new improvements and changes, but we decided to list our favorites below.

Smart Address Bar: Taking a note from Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar, the Smart Address Bar offers suggestions as you type based on website history, favorites, and RSS feed. There’s even an autocomplete feature that will suggest sites based on what you’re typing. Domain highlighting is also used to highlight the domain name. This feature allows for improved security and is especially useful in thwarting phishing attacks.

Colored Tab Groups: When you Ctrl+Click a link to open up a new tab, the new tab will have the same color as the original tab. New tabs that you launch on your own will be in a different color. This feature helps you easily visualize how tabs are related to each other.

Enhanced Find On Page Search: Ctrl+F launches a Find-on-Page Toolbar at the top of the page underneath the tabs. Search terms on the page are highlighted and the number of times they appear are counted.

Switching Search Providers Easier: Now when you enter in a search term in the search box, you’ll notice a row of icons that appear below the search suggestions that appear. These icons allow you to change your search provider on the fly from Live Search to Google to Wikipedia to Amazon, eBay, and more…all with the click of a button.

Visual Search: In addition to being able to change providers quickly, sites that support visual search (currently Amazon and Wikipedia) will display a small thumbnail image of the results which you can view without having to visit that page. What a timesaver!

Crash Recovery/Session Saving: You now have the option to reopen the last tab group when closing the browser. Also, if a tab crashes, crash recovery will restore the tab as well as any info you had filled in there such as in the case of writing an email or filing out a form.

InPrivate Browsing: This new technology lets you browse privately, making sure that history, temporary internet files, and cookies are not recorded on the PC

Other new features include an updated look for the IE chrome, improvements to both web slices and accelerators (formerly called “activities”), tools for IT professionals and developers, and a lot more. You can check out the full list of enhancements here as well as read reviews from both Ed Bott and Brandon LeBlanc, who both take a comprehensive look at the new browser.

Transform the Web With PicLens

sarahintampa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:02:00 GMT

If you haven’t yet tried out PicLens, then you’re missing out on one of the hottest web add-ons I’ve seen in a long time. This web browser add-on (available for IE here), literally transforms the web in an immersive experience, allowing you to browse through images and videos in a full-screen 3D view. When you’re on a page with videos or photos, you click on a little arrow that appears on your page thanks to the PicLens IE plugin and you’re zoomed into a full-screen, scrollable “wall” of media. In this “wall,” you can fly through photos or videos by scrolling with your mouse, and when you’re done “Esc” or “X” out and you’ll be back on the web page you started from.

The latest version of the PicLens plugin offers a “Discover” feature which lets you launch PicLens and use it as a media player of sorts. Here, you can watch movie trailers, get the latest news, view photos, and browse video feeds. Another newer addition is the “Shop Amazon” feature, which lets you virtually browse through products from Amazon.

Once you try PicLens, you’re going to love it, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, I suggest you download it now. This is rapidly becoming my absolute favorite plugin of all time.

Official Del.icio.us Plugin for IE Now Available

sarahintampa — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:07:00 GMT

In May, Yahoo released a beta version of their Del.icio.us plugin for Internet Explorer which provided toolbar buttons for saving and tagging links, searching del.icio.us, and even syncing links from your browser’s favorites to the del.icio.us bookmarking service. Recently, Yahoo released the official version of the plugin – version 1.0 – which is now available for download here. This version works on both XP and Vista for both IE6 and IE7. IE8 should also work too, but since that browser is still in beta, IE8 support isn’t final yet. If you’re interested in testing the plugin for IE8, there’s also an online group where you can discuss and give comments and feedback.

Use PayPal’s IE Plugin to Pay for All Your Online Shopping

sarahintampa — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:12:00 GMT

I just saw that PayPal has an IE plugin that lets you pay for anything on the web with your PayPal account – even on sites that don’t take PayPal! I immediately thought “wow, this is cool!” - but I then realized that this could also lead to some dangerous impulse shopping. Sometimes the only thing holding me back from a purchase is the fact that I would have to get up and dig through my purse for my credit card. No more! Assuming you have a PayPal account, you can install this plugin, which uses PayPal ‘single use’ credit card numbers to pay for your online purchases. You can also use the plugin to save and print receipts, enter addresses with 1 click, check your PayPal balance, and avoid fraudulent websites. To get access to the plugin, you have to first login to PayPal and go to your profile, where you’ll see a link to “PayPal plug-in” on the menu on the left.

IETester Helps You Test Your Site

sarahintampa — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:24:00 GMT

IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web sites in Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista. Like any web browser, IETester has the usual forward and back buttons, refresh, stop, home, and favorite buttons, but it also has a special feature that allows you to launch new tabs which render the web site in different versions of IE. With IE8's public beta just around the corner, web site owners need to verify that their sites are going to display properly in the new browser, which runs in standards-compliant mode by default. You can download IETester for free (donations accepted) from here. (via Ajaxian)

IE Gets More Del.icio.us

sarahintampa — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:36:00 GMT

New from Yahoo is a beta version available of their del.icio.us social bookmarking browser plugin for Internet Explorer. The plugin provides toolbar buttons for bookmarking links you find on the web, toolbar indicators for new network activity and links for you, and a search functionality for browsing your tags. Even if your del.icio.us account is huge, searching is still nearly instantaneous. Nice! You can also sync your local bookmarks to del.icio.us, too. The new plugin runs on both IE 6, 7, and even IE8 on both XP and Vista. Since this release is so new, they created a Yahoo! Group for downloading and discussing the Internet Explorer release. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delicious-ie-extension to sign up. In the group you can share your feedback and share the release notes for each version. (via Lifehacker)

Videos of the New Windows Mobile IE and Windows Mobile 6.1 in Action

sarahintampa — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:09:00 GMT

From the CTIA conference comes a preview of the Windows Mobile 6.1 IE6 Beta Demo. The new browser features zooming in and out, panning, and support for Flash - a first for phones. This video shows the new Internet Explorer being demo'ed at the conference while its new features are explained.

After watching that, I browsed through the related videos, and found this video - an extended hands-on demo of the new version of Windows Mobile, which shows the new "today" screen, the "getting started" wizards, the transfer music option, text messages, settings, and pretty much all the other features, too. Good stuff!

Learning IE8

sarahintampa — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:21:00 GMT

The guys over at the IE Blog just put up a great post with all kinds of tips and tricks for learning the new IE8 Favorites Bar. They teach you how to use WebSlices and how to add feeds to the Favorites Bar, plus they list a whole bunch of other little tips and keyboard shortcuts. I highly recommend checking out this post if you're new to IE8.

Here's a sampling of the tips:

To put focus on the first item on the Favorites bar, press ALT+B.
Ctrl+Click or Middle-click on an item (or a folder) on the Favorites bar and this item (or the contents of this folder) will open in a new tab (or tabs) in the background.
Ctrl+Shift+Click on an item on the Favorites bar will open up this item in a tab in the foreground.

They've actually been posting all kinds of stuff about IE8, so you can be an expert in no time!

Here are a few other great posts to check out on the IE Blog:

Address Bar Improvements (like domain highlighting)
Learn About Loosely Coupled IE
Improved Developer Tools
Activities and WebSlices

Quero Toolbar for IE

sarahintampa — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:21:00 GMT

The Quero Toolbar is a navigation bar replacement for Internet Explorer that offers a built in ad-blocker. With Quero, you can customize the UI of IE, allowing you to resize, move or shorten your address bar again. Then integrated ad blocker stops unwanted Flash, banner, layer, Google, IntelliTXT, and pop-up ads. Other features let you highlight search terms on your pages, begin finding as you type, search or highlight any word by selecting and right-clicking it, and jump to URLs that aren't highlighted.

The latest version supports Vista's Aero theme (for Vista users) and lets you just use Quero as a button, instead of an entire address bar replacement.

An IE8 version is in progress if you are beta-testing the the new browser.

Otherwise, you can download Quero from the Quero homepage.

"Find-As-You-Type" Add-On for IE

sarahintampa — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:25:00 GMT

Do you love the option to "find as you type" when surfing the web? You can bring this functionality into Internet Explorer via the Find as you type add-on. This IE add-on supports both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows and is available in German, English, Italian, and Dutch. To use the add-on, you will have to press "Ctrl +F" first, but this will bring up a small search box at the top of the page. When you begin typing, the text you type will automatically be found and highlighted on the page below. (via gHacks for this!)

IE7Pro 2 Lets You Pause and Resume Downloads

sarahintampa — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:28:00 GMT

The very popular Internet Explorer add-on, IE7Pro, has just released a big update. The new IE7Pro 2 offers many new features, most notably, a download manager! The download manager displays your downloads in a separate window, similar to Firefox, but the IE7Pro 2 download manager also offers a "Pause" option to start and stop your downloads. The download manager stays in the system tray, and by default, is always running (although you can change this setting). Even if your browser is closed, the download manager will continue to download the files you requested. You can even pause your downloads, shut down your computer, then resume them next time you boot up and go online!

Other new features in the update are increased stability, 64-bit support, and the addition of a hotkey (CTRL+M) to minimize IE windows to tray icon. Of course, all of IE7 Pro's great features remain, which include Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Auto Fill Form, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins, MiniDM, Google sponsored search and more.

A Facebook Toolbar for IE Users

sarahintampa — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:27:00 GMT

Although a Facebook toolbar for Firefox has been available for a while, there was not one for Internet Explorer until now. With My FB Toolbar, you can stay connected to your Facebook friends even as you surf the web. The toolbar offers instant access to essential Facebook bookmarks, like Facebook photos, groups, events, applications, and friends. With the FB Toolbar installed, you can also receive message alerts when new events occur about you or your friends on the service. When a new request or new Facebook mail message arrives, you will see this information displayed on the toolbar. Using the RSS News feature of the toolbar, you can keep track of your friends' status updates, new feeds, and other notifications like wall posts, messages, photo tags, etc. There are also some other non-Facebook features like Weather, Alexa Ranking, and integrated anti-spyware protection that round out this great download for those of you who are Facebook-obsessed!

Enhance Internet Explorer with Add-ons from IEAddons.com

Duncan — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:29:00 GMT

IE7 launched yesterday, so now is the time to go and grab those release bits!

I made the mistake of commenting that I consider myself a 'power user' but that I wasn't using a single add-on, toolbar or plug-in for Internet Explorer so someone needed to show me the error of my ways. Dean Hachamovitch and Mark Harris from the IE7 team came over and walked through a bunch of cool ways to enhance my IE experience, all pulled from the ieaddons.com website. For those of us that write code, Mark also filled us in on an upcoming contest to develop a great add-on for IE7.

Add-ons shown in this video included Inline Search, IE Spell, StumbleUpon, and Windows Live Writer.
Channel 9 launched several IE7 videos yesterday as well, if you are intersted in meeting the IE team.