March 28, 2009
1:34 am
IE8 Accelerators
Accelerators are a robust and customizable way of bringing you closer to the services you use most in Internet Explorer 8 (download). So for the rest of this post, I’ll be throwing a few interesting Accelerators into the spotlight.
Shareaholic (link) is a good example of the kinds of aggregation possibilities that are possible with Accelerators.
Entertonement (link) takes the user selection and returns audio clips based on that selection.
Preview and Launch URL (link) fills one of the most-requested needs for Accelerators. It takes a user-selected URL and launches it.
Share with Facebook (link) enables you to send whatever page you’re viewing to Facebook as an item to share with your friends.
Shop and Save with Live Search Products (link)
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Dear DiTii, See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW
For readers who use Firefox and IE8, I wanted your readers to be aware that Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT - Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW
I believe KallOut -- Accelerators for Firefox is one-click compatible with IE8 accelerators too, like the ones you list above.
Selection-based search is really helpful. One GREAT feature of KallOut is BestGuess. The challenge with selection-based search is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s a little clunky once you get more than two or three. KallOut does a super job figuring out which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout — Accelerators for Firefox is actually kind of spooky when it works so well.
Check it out! I agree that it’s a big step forward for the user to have the selection-based search bundled into the browser by default, however.
“KALLOUT - Accelerators for Firefox” is available through Mozilla at http://bit.ly/vJKbW
-EL