Zeba is a young executive and a net savvy blogger. She uses multiple tabs and windows while browsing internet as she frequently needs to look for definitions, email useful parts of the content she is going through, look for information on Wikipedia, visit shopping portals and post text in blog entries. Zeba keeps copying and pasting text from one web page to another to access different web services and applications, which makes her online activities bulky and strenuous. One of Zeba’s fellow bloggers suggested Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 Accelerators to answer her online woes.
The latest build of Internet Explorer 8, beta 2 comes bundled with the Accelerator feature which allows you to quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without having to navigate to other websites. Eliminating the need to copy and paste content between web pages, Accelerators make it faster, easier and safer for Zeba to access web applications.
What Accelerators are good for?
Leveraging the benefits of Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators, Zeba now requires just a click of mouse for things she does every day online including emailing, searching, shopping or blogging. If she wants to find out where a restaurant is, she simply highlights the address and clicks on the accelerator icon, which instantly leads her to a preview map showing the restaurant’s location. She no longer needs to copy and paste the address into a mapping site. Besides gaining quick access to her favourite web services like Gmail, Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook, Zeba can even translate text in another language without leaving the web page.
How to use them?
Zeba simply highlights texts on a page, and then clicks on the blue accelerator icon appearing above the selection. This icon reveals a list of popular Accelerators allowing her to email the selected text to others, perform text translation, search the internet for the selected text, post it in a blog entry, define words, search for addresses and much more.
Like Zeba you can also gain quick access to as many web services as you wish, by adding accelerator providers to your Internet Explorer. You can set your default Accelerators, and add or delete them by choosing ‘More Accelerators’ and then selecting ‘Manage Accelerators’. Your Accelerators will always be available no matter on what web page you are on. Some computer may have Accelerators disabled but you can enable them through Internet options.
