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Web Slices
E-mail, weather, sports scores, stock
quotes, or auction item status—there are
Web sites we visit multiple times during
the day to get updates. Web Slices in
Internet Explorer 8 make it simple to
access this information without having to
navigate to the Web site again and again.
Web site owners can now mark parts of
their pages as Web Slices. See something
you want to track? Just click on the Web
Slice icon that appears next a block of
content when you pause on it, and you’ll
get the option to add it to your Favorites
Bar. Alternatively, you can click Get More
Add-ons to add Web Slices.
Accelerators
Do you spend a lot of time copying information from one Web page, pasting it into another,
viewing the results—and then returning to the original page to pick up where you left off? With
Internet Explorer 8, you won’t have to do this any longer; Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 make
the process of accessing online services easy. Just select some text and right-click to select an
Accelerator and get the results instantly.
For example, let’s say you’ve just read a review of a great new restaurant and want to see its loca-
tion. In the past, you would have had to copy the address, navigate to a mapping service, and
paste the address into the address eld. With the Accelerator called Map with Bing, you can high-
light the address and then see your map overlaid on the page you’re currently on.
Internet Explorer 8 includes a number
of useful Accelerators from Microsoft
that cover search, mapping, word
de nitions, translation, blogging and
e-mail. But you can easily nd and
use Accelerators from other providers
too using the Find More Accelerators
option on the Accelerators menu. For
example, eBay, Yahoo!, Facebook,
ESPN, Photobucket, and TinyPic all
offer Accelerators that make it easier
for you to interact with their Web sites
and services.
Web Slice showing traf c.
Map with Bing Accelerator overlays a
map based on the highlighted address.
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