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October 24th, 2006 at 03:48pm | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Carnivals, Community, Fun | 6 reader remarks | Print This Post

IE7 From a Layman’s Point of View

 

I have had IE7 for a whole 2 days now and have some mixed feelings on it.  Overall, it has it’s advantages over IE6 in usefulness for working online.

 

I have always worked from my Favorites in order to view different sites while researching a subject.  This worked fairly well, but I ended up looking at sites that haven’t updated for the day, sometimes up to a week.  I used different RSS readers for some of the more important sources, but only got headlines and possibly a teaser.  At least I knew they were updated, but had to go the the site to see the actual post.

Probably the biggest time saver for me is the Feeds link in the menu next to Favorites.  I have subscribed to most of the sites I use for business purposes and everything is right there for me.  If a site has updated recently, it will be in Bold and if there is nothing new, it will remain in lighter typeface.  That way, I am not wasting a lot of time looking at sites that have nothing new to offer that day.

 

The Second big time saver is the Tabbed Viewing.  I used to bring up different windows of IE6 in order to do quotes or get links, and the like.  That takes a lot of time and effort.  Once I got used to the Tabs, I can run multiple sites and reference back and forth without leaving the work page I am using.

 

The Popup Blocker is basically the same as the one on IE6 and can be turned on and off or change settings from Tools.  The Phishing Filter slows loading of pages down a bit and can be turned off in Tools if you are visiting sites you trust, but is useful if you are surfing on sites you haven’t been to before to make sure they are who they say they are.

If you’re like me and like the Old Menu to use in the transition, you can put it in the Toolbar through Tools. You can also Manage or get additional Add-ons to help in navigation and use of the functions you want through Tools.

 

This is just an overview of my first impressions in using IE7 for Business on the Internet and is by far not everything that it can be used for.  So far, I really like it and when I find new uses or Add-ons that are useful in Working at Home, I will be sure to let you know.

 

Have you tried IE7?  What is your impression of it?

October 24th, 2006 at 02:55pm | Posted by Joe | Reviews, Tools | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post