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What is that blue arrow in Internet Explorer 8?

by Adrienne McGee on August 25th, 2010

Using Accelerators in IE8.

For those of you that use Internet Explorer 8, you might have noticed the appearance of a blue arrow icon occasionally in web pages you visit. If you select any text in a web page, the blue arrow icon will appear.

This is a new feature in IE8. If you select any text in a web page, the blue arrow will appear, if you click on this arrow, you will be given a list of what are called "Accelerators". An example of an Accelerator would be to search the selected text on your favorite search engine, which saves you the trouble of copying the selected text, go to your search engine and paste in the text.

A variety of other Accelerators are available and are customizable. If you click the blue arrow icon you will see a menu item call All Accelerators, which will then let you go to options to either find more Accelerators or manage the ones you already use.

This feature is particularly useful for those who like to do lots of research and shopping on the Web. Enjoy!

Creating shorcuts in Windows 7 using the Pin feature.

by Adrienne McGee on August 17th, 2010

Creating shorcuts in Windows 7 using the Pin feature.

Windows 7 gives you a new way to add shortcuts to the Start Menu and the Taskbar.

Whenever you see a program in the program list and would like to create a shortcut, simply right-click on the item and in the shortcut menu you will see an option to either pin the program to  the Start Menu or the Taskbar.

If you pick Start Menu, you will later see the program as a shortcut in the top of the start menu. If you pick the taskbar, the program will appear as an icon in the Taskbar. This basically replaces the old Quick Launch toolbar.

Pinned programs will remain pinned until you right-click on the item (in either the Start Menu or the Taskbar) and choose an un-pin command.

So, save your desktop for cool wallpaper images and put all your shortcuts in the Start Menu or Taskbar!

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