Cooliris Previews – The Best Browser Add-on? – Picture-in-a-Picture Web Surfing

Get Picture-in-a-Picture browsing with a cool free browser add-on that that gives you the power to preview links and rich media content without clicking the link, or leaving your current page.

With Cooliris, just place your mouse cursor over your link, or over the Cooliris icon, and a customizable preview window of the website that the link points to instantly appears with the content; page view, image view, or even video.

You can fully interact with the preview window; play the video, click on links, fill out forms, and more. In fact, you can interact with the preview just as if you had the full page open. Opening the full page is easy; just click the Cooliris full page icon and you’re there.

Using Cooliris is a great way to save time and reduce the drudgery involved in trying to determine which search results are worth investigating.  Cooliris lets you take a quick look at each link to see if it’s worthwhile investigating further.

I use this add-on frequently as I build a web page, or when writing a Blog posting, to ensure that all included links are working. Cooliris definitely increases my productivity; what a time saver!

It’s no wonder Mozilla lists this neat little tool as a recommended Firefox add-on, and also includes it in its most popular list of browser add-ons.

Quick facts: 

• Preview web links, images, and videos
• Stack previewed items into temporary bookmarks
• Instantly send links to friends and family with just a click.
• Automatically sub search Google, Wikipedia, or just about any searchable website by right-clicking on any phrase
• Customize Cooliris to control preview window activation

 

Supported Browsers: Firefox, Safari, IE, Flock

The Safari 2.0 version works only on Google, (Web, Images, News, Groups, Froogle), Yahoo!, AOL, Ask, Flickr, Newsvine, BBC News, CNN News, Craigslist, eBay, Del.icio.us and RSS feeds.

Safari 3.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0 are not yet supported.

For a Cooliris video preview checkout YouTube

Download at: Cooliris Previews

Students, Bloggers/Writers – Extend Your Clipboard Functions – Free Yankee Clipper 3

Ever wonder what utility you use the most on your computer? I started thinking about that question just last week, and I was surprised to find that the most used of all the utilities on my system is a clipboard extender; Yankee Clipper 3.

Writing a Blog article on a daily basis, which involves much editing, I need a Windows clipboard extender which gives me much more versatility than the standard Windows clipboard offers. This neat little application handles Text, Rich Text, Pictures, and of real importance to me URL’s. A great feature is the ability to launch copied URL’s directly from within the program.

I prefer simple programs that are functional, easy to understand and use, and that don’t involve extreme learning curves; Yankee Clipper 3 with its Windows Outlook interface qualifies in every way.

This is a worthwhile program for students, and Bloggers, or in fact anyone who needs or wants to save time by collecting, managing, and reusing everything that was copied to the Windows Clipboard.

Features:

• Saves 200 Text and RTF, 20 BMP and Metafiles, and 200 URL clipboard entries
• Has the ability to save and re-use “boilerplate” clippings
• Unlimited boilerplate collections can be created
• URL aware- links copied to clipboard can be instantly launched
• No size limits for clippings
• Prints any text clipboard entry
• Clippings can be dragged & dropped
• Strips unwanted “quote” characters (“<“,

 

 

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Languages: English; French; German; Italian

Download at: intelexual.com

So, What’s That Windows Key On My Keyboard For? – Windows Key Shortcuts

Pressing the Windows key, in combination with certain other keys, can save you time and mouse clicks, by launching many common Windows functions through the keyboard. You might want to print the following shortcuts and give them a try.

 

Windows Key

• Launches your Start Menu; saving you from having to click the lower left-hand corner on your Taskbar.

 

Windows Key + E

• Launches Windows Explorer; allowing you to view your computer’s drives, folders and files.

 

Windows Key + D

• If you need to get back to your Desktop, this key minimizes all open programs/windows.

 

Windows Key + D (repeated)

• Reverses the process, and back you go to your opened programs.

 

Windows Key + L

• A quick way to lock your machine in XP, or Vista. To unlock, click on your profile icon.

 

Windows Key + F

• This saves 2 mouse clicks in opening the Search application.
  

 

Windows Key + R

• This shortcut takes you to the Run command.

 

Windows Key + F1

• A quick way to get to Windows Help.

 

Windows Key + Tab

• Revolves through the open applications on your Taskbar.

 

Windows Key + Pause/Break

• Launches the System Information applet; you finally have a use for this orphaned key!