How to Get That Internet Advantage
For the past couple of weeks, I have been using MyIE2 as my browser. It really is an add-on to Internet Explorer that allows you to open multiple web pages in the same Window. They show as tabs at the top.
Installation is trivial and you will find that all you Favorites have been imported from Internet Explorer.
If you have read any of my blogs, you know that I tend to quote a lot of internet sources. Having the pages all available in one Window is less memory intensive and having them as tabs makes it easier to find the one that I want. It also has ad blocking, is skinnable, lots more. There are also a lot of plug ins available that extend its functionality even more.
Two plugins that I use are the Google Toolbar and IESpell. The Google Toolbar is available from http://www.google.com (duh!) and IESpell from...you guessed it....http://www.iespell.com/ If you want to use these with MyIE2, then go to Options from within MyIE2, select MyIE2 options and at the bottom of the options list you will see IE plugins. Pick what you want. (MyIE2 also has a search bar built-in, if you want to use Google instead, deselect the other one.)
IESpell is a spell-checker for internet posts. Now where might one use THAT feature? With MyIE2, you select the text to check with your mouse and right click. You will see the option there.
A fourth tool that is useful, though not related to blogging necessarily, is RoboForm. It is a password manager, kind of like what Gator might have been if Gator wasn't Scumware............but that was an earlier post.
All these tools are free, but I do encourage you to donate to support the authors.