An IE 7 tweak.
December 2nd 2006 05:42
Allrighty, so I kinda sorta figured I'd review IE yesterday and in my last post I ended up mentioned a few cool features with the new IE. But this morning I woke up and realised that I'd test this new feature onto - this struck me outta nowhere. And boy did it work!!
In my previous post I did mention the new IE feature wherein one can embed a search engine of their choice onto IE 7. This is probably because some users find it convinient to embed search engine toolbars onto their browsers which is kinda nice and all, but the more toolbars one installs, the more loading time. Loading times can be annoying ya know!
Now, I do a lot of online research about software usage mainly cos I am a newbie to all this (I think!) and sometimes I look up things which are related to my study or things which interest me from the science and technology domain. A lot of this information uses acronyms which I basically have no idea about and hence I use www.acronyfinder.com to look these up and research what their significance in all that information is...you know what I mean I guess.
This morning I figured I'd just test if the embed search engine onto IE option works with any website which basically has a query look-up box (much like acronym finder) and boy did it work. I have always wanted to embed the query look-up box from acronym finder onto my browser cos that would make it so much easier - looking up acronyms a click and a keyword away and what not! But there were no toolbars I could install. Oh well, I hate them anyway but here's how I tweaked my IE!
1) go to www.acronymfinder and in the search box type the word "TEST". Copy the URL it comes up with (should be http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=TEST&Find=find&string=exact )
2) Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx and paste the above URL onto the first box. In the second box enter "Acronym Finder" or any other such phrase which you can use to call the website you are querying from and click install.
3) Voila! it will appear in your IE7 window on the top right corner as a menu item. Select that to look up acronyms!
Thats it! no more toolbars! yay!
***all respective copywrighted material mentioned in the above post are a property of their respective owners. This article was just write for tutorial purposes.
In my previous post I did mention the new IE feature wherein one can embed a search engine of their choice onto IE 7. This is probably because some users find it convinient to embed search engine toolbars onto their browsers which is kinda nice and all, but the more toolbars one installs, the more loading time. Loading times can be annoying ya know!
Now, I do a lot of online research about software usage mainly cos I am a newbie to all this (I think!) and sometimes I look up things which are related to my study or things which interest me from the science and technology domain. A lot of this information uses acronyms which I basically have no idea about and hence I use www.acronyfinder.com to look these up and research what their significance in all that information is...you know what I mean I guess.
This morning I figured I'd just test if the embed search engine onto IE option works with any website which basically has a query look-up box (much like acronym finder) and boy did it work. I have always wanted to embed the query look-up box from acronym finder onto my browser cos that would make it so much easier - looking up acronyms a click and a keyword away and what not! But there were no toolbars I could install. Oh well, I hate them anyway but here's how I tweaked my IE!
1) go to www.acronymfinder and in the search box type the word "TEST". Copy the URL it comes up with (should be http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=TEST&Find=find&string=exact )
2) Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx and paste the above URL onto the first box. In the second box enter "Acronym Finder" or any other such phrase which you can use to call the website you are querying from and click install.
3) Voila! it will appear in your IE7 window on the top right corner as a menu item. Select that to look up acronyms!
Thats it! no more toolbars! yay!
***all respective copywrighted material mentioned in the above post are a property of their respective owners. This article was just write for tutorial purposes.
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