IE8 Accelerators for MSDN and TechNet Social and Search
In the last of my series of cool new toys we're adding to extend the new MSDN, TechNet, and Expression social bookmarking sites, we've just posted a set of accelerators for IE8. Thanks to our own Tim Pearson and Husain Shambhoora for creating these! They'll be the first to say these were amazingly simple to create.
If you're not familiar with IE8 Accelerators, this page explains them very simply as quick shortcuts to services (like translation or search) that you use frequently.
We've just put a Social Bookmarking accelerator for each brand in the IE8 Add-ons Gallery:
We also added a TechNet Search accelerator to the existing MSDN Search one created by someone in the community (thanks!). Note that if you add TechNet Search or MSDN Search as a provider in IE8, it's automatically added as an accelerator as well.
To get any of these accelerators, install IE8 and go to the page for the accelerator you'd like to use, click on "install accelerator" and click "Add Provider". That's it! Then, whenever you're on a page you want to bookmark, just right-click on the page and click the accelerator on the menu:
Hint: these accelerators work with the text-selection trick we told you about before... select some text before right-clicking, and that text will be copied into the "description" for your bookmark. Nice time-saver.
One other tip: If you want to move one of the accelerators so that it’s at the top level of the popup menu, click on More Accelerators and then select Manage Accelerators. You can edit the category for any accelerator to make it appear at the top-level menu.
In case you missed them, here’s a list of the whole series of posts on extensions for social bookmarking:
You're now well-equipped to bookmark like crazy! Go, go, go!
