Power Toys
for IE 5
and other IE 5 Web Accessories
Most are real gems, though
some are almost, but not quite, useless. The good ones are
the Open Frame in New Window (great on a framed site), Links
list (get all the links on a page in a popup window) and the
Image List (wonderful for the Web designer who wants to know
how big his page is and how long it'll take to load at
various speeds. It shows you all the images on a Web page
and the size of each file in kilobytes and in pixels). Quick
Search lets you access various search engines directly from
the Address box. Use "av" for altavista followed
by the keywords you're hunting for and presto -- Internet
Explorer 5 will query your favorite search engine
(see Google Toolbar below too)
and get
you the results without your having to load the search side
panel. The Image toggler lets you turn off bloated images in
a jiffy. With Web Search you can select words on a Web page
and with a right-click use them as keywords to query a
default search engine.
You can Zoom In and Out of
an image. The Text Highlighter lets you highlight text on a
page. This is similar to the highlight feature in Microsoft
Word.
The Web Accessories are
available as a 136 Kb download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/webaccess/ie5wa.exe
Also
get the Google toolbar for your IE
This is another way to have
Google on your browser.
http://www.google.com/options/winexplorer.html
NOTES: The Google Browser Buttons are tailored to the
browser you are using. They should work for recent versions,
but may not work for older browsers. • Try this Button
Google Search Use your mouse to highlight this phrase:
Stanford University. Click the Google Search button to do a
Google web search for the highlighted phrase.
Power Tweaks
The Internet Explorer 5
Power Tweaks aren't as useful as the Web Accessories set but
they are useful if you want to set Web sites as trusted or
restricted right from the Tools menu without having to
rummage through the Tools | Internet Options dialog. Other
tidbits include a toolbar button that lets you toggle
between Offline and Online -- nice if you're on a dialup
connection and aren't always connected.
The Power Tweaks are a 126
kb download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/webaccess/pwrtwks.exe
Toolbar Wallpaper
The Toolbar Wallpaper
utility lets you customize the background image of Internet
Explorer 5's toolbars. Ten images come with the tool, and if
that isn't enough you can use any bmp file on your PC
(mostly stored in C:\WINDOWS).
The Toolbar Wallpaper is a
170 Kb download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/webaccess/tbwlpapr.exe |
