Posts Tagged web slices

Internet Explorer Goes Touchscreen

Jun 25

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This week we’ve looked at how interfaces will evolve, so no doubt in not too long you’ll be able to surf around IE without touching anything at all. Did you know, however, that it’s already possible to do away with the mouse and move over to a beautifully vibrant Touchscreen already?

I’m currently writing this post on an HP Touchsmart. This is really amazing technology when coupled with Windows 7, IE and surfing Bing & MSN. We built Windows 7 and IE8 & IE9 really thinking about touch as part of the heart of your browsing interface. From the Windows 7 dock you can fire up IE 8 and surf around, clicking hyperlinks to take you to wherever you want to go.

Take a look at our Microsoft Partner websites to learn more about the amazing PCs out there that run touchscreen IE.

http://www.hp.com/touchsmart

Dell also have a great touchscreen laptop – the Latitude XT2

http://www.dell.com/tablet?s=biz&cs=555

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The Future of Interfaces

Jun 21

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Whenever Microsoft launches something really cool it’s great for us here at Internet Explorer. We’ve been inundated with e-mails and buzz this past week following the spectacular launch of Xbox Kinect at E3 last week. No expense was spared – the show started with a 45 minute display from Cirque de Soleil to really communicate the freedom of movement you have with Kinect. Take a look below to see what everyone is getting so excited about.

Whenever a revolutionary new system comes into play – be it in consoles, mobile phones or even kitchen appliances the question is raised – when will I see this built into my computer? Kinect points to the future of interfaces and suggests that the vision in Minority Report is less far away than we ever imagined. Take a look at this fascinating presentation at TED from John Underkoffler (it really gets going about 7 mins in).

His prediction is that this style of interface will come as standard in your computer within 5 years. This week on the IE blog we’re going to do a bit more future gazing, showing Microsoft’s predictions for the future office and cool computers running IE that will amaze you even now.

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Working 9 to 5 with Web Slices

Jun 4

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With the emergency budget around the corner for June 22nd many businesses both large and small will be watching carefully to see what new ‘efficiency savings’ will be taken to reduce the countries £157 Billion deficit… and the effect it has on the FTSE and Dow Jones.

Continuing this week’s theme of working smarter with IE, we’ve highlighted a few more Web Slices you can use to make small efficiency savings at work.

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/finance/Finance_from_Bing/

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/news/CNN_Top_Stories/

If you’re a fan of The West Wing you’ll know that Pizza is the answer for a long night in the office.

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/shopping/Dominos_Pizza_Slice/

And if you’re really tired of working 9 to 5, then take a look at Dolly Partons’ own webslice. IE wonders if the song would have been as popular if she’d worked 8.30am – 4.15pm?

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/music/Dolly_Parton_News_and_Video_Diary/

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Bringing Home Practice into the Office

Jun 3

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We’ve had lots of people asking us for a bit more information on Web Slices and how they work. Take a look at the video below for a full tutorial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqXR79P_Uzo

Onto today’s post, then…  In today’s ever more connected world it’s easier than ever to work from home. But it’s a bit of a debate in the IE office as to whether it makes you more productive or not. Surely you’ll be distracted by the screaming kids or the washing machine??

Well the data’s in from RescueTime – working from home can boost productivity by as much as 22% with more time spent on the tasks that mattered for work. A full breakdown can be found below and on their blog at http://blog.rescuetime.com/2009/11/18/does-working-from-home-make-you-more-productive-yes-with-data/

A friend of ours pointed out that even though they’re at a FTSE 100 company (that we’ll keep nameless) their computers were so old “they literally have to crank them up in the morning, like a classic car.” This insight is telling – many companies do delay updating computers to a point that causes a worrying loss of productivity.

We’ve had a great response to IE 8 from the web community and reviewers have said “Upgrading to IE8 from IE7 is a no-brainer”. So this is another aspect where a homeworker can outperform an office worker – by have more up-to-date software at home.  If your office is a bit behind you might want to give your management a nudge… upgrading to IE8 and Windows 7 will boost productivity every minute you’re at your desk.

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Internet Explorer is a Piece of Cake

Jun 2

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Sometimes you don’t want to have your cake and eat it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK4iR_stpoo

The Internet is just the same, while society has moved forwards thanks to the sharing of knowledge (as we explored in last week’s post) you can also become overwhelmed and consumed by information, this posed a particular question to our Internet Explorer developers – wouldn’t it be great if you could ‘slice up’ the Web.

Think how much time you waste every day surfing backwards and forwards from page to page just to find tiny snippets of information – to check how your eBay auction is going, to look up the weather or find out film times.  You spend a great deal of time clicking from site to site. With IE Web Slices you can save your favourite pages onto your toolbar and a quick rollover the Web Slice brings up the information in seconds.

We’ve loads of Web Slices in our IE gallery – take a look here: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/webslices/

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15 new ways to surf the net

Apr 9

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Take the pain out of browsing with our collection of time-saving tips and awesome add-ons.

A surfer pictured at sunset. Image PA

Just like souping up a mobile phone with new apps – your already excellent browser can benefit from a bunch of cool add-ons.

Repeat visits to the same website takes up a large chunk of our time, so what if we told you there was an easy solution to save on this legwork…

We tracked down some of the best add-ons so you too can have yourself a little slice of web heaven. Take a look at what we have found.

Browse the gallery on MSN UK Tech & Gadgets

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Multimap launches custom IE8

Mar 3

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Multimap have released a new custom IE8 browser with some great mapping add-ons.

Keep up with what matters most, no matter where you are, with Web Slices.

The Multimap Web Slice puts Multimap’s Top 10 maps, breaking news and our latest tools right on your IE8 favourites bar.

With the Multimap Accelerator, you can get an in-place view of a map displayed directly on the page.

The Multimap Accelerator lets you map any address, postcode or location on a web page, just by highlighting the text.

Find out more and download here

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A slice of the web

Mar 1

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Web Slices give you easy access to relevant information.

Time is an important asset that constantly trickles through our fingers, and as we spend more of our time online, conducting our lives, we must do as much as possible to spend it more efficiently.

Web Slice markers on the MSN UK homepage

How many times a week do you log on to internet banking, look up an address if you’re going to a party later, bid on that commemorative issue of a Spiderman comic, or want to keep tabs on the current sports scores?

It is inconvenient to constantly check a website for changes and, to that end, what if there was a way to do it all from the same page? Well now there is, and I will show you how.

Find out more about Web Slices

Browse Web Slices in the Add-ons Gallery

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