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Microsoft Outlook is one of the top email software programs in the world, but there’s no email program out there that can protect you from the information overload of a busy inbox. Although Outlook has several great built-in features for managing your messages, appointments, contacts and tasks,…

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, online auction site eBay has announced they’re partnering with Microsoft to launch a special Internet Explorer web slice for finding the best daily deals. Web slices, features unique to the IE8 browser, allow sites to create special buttons that display…

Perhaps a little overshadowed by the much bigger news (Bing!), there was another announcement of interest made yesterday: Microsoft is launching a customized version of the IE8 web browser which integrates real-time features provided by the social search engine OneRiot. This specialized version of…

Iterasi has now updated their browser add-on to support the latest version of Internet Explorer – IE 8.0. With this add-on installed, you can bookmark web pages for later viewing. But Iterasi is no ordinary social bookmarking service – it lets you dynamically bookmark the sorts of pages that can…

Soocial is a address book synchronization service that keeps addresses between computers, the web, and your phone updated. Although the scope of its offerings is still somewhat limited (for example – no Blackberry support, no Hotmail support!), they’ve just introduced an Outlook plugin that may…

Foxmarks, a well-known and much beloved bookmark synchronization add-on for Firefox is now branching out to (finally!) support other browsers, including both Internet Explorer and Safari. What’s really great about the new tools from Foxmarks is that you’re able to sync your bookmarks between…

There are only a few things that get me downright giddy when it comes to technology, but shiny new objects having to do with FriendFeed certainly make the list. That’s why I was excited to come across Adam Kinney’s new IE8 Accelerator for FriendFeed, Based on the IE Accelerator for Twitter, his…

If you haven’t yet tried out PicLens, then you’re missing out on one of the hottest web add-ons I’ve seen in a long time. This web browser add-on (available for IE here), literally transforms the web in an immersive experience, allowing you to browse through images and videos in a full-screen 3D…

In May, Yahoo released a beta version of their Del.icio.us plugin for Internet Explorer which provided toolbar buttons for saving and tagging links, searching del.icio.us, and even syncing links from your browser’s favorites to the del.icio.us bookmarking service. Recently, Yahoo released the…

I just saw that PayPal has an IE plugin that lets you pay for anything on the web with your PayPal account – even on sites that don’t take PayPal! I immediately thought “wow, this is cool!”  - but I then realized that this could also lead to some dangerous impulse shopping. Sometimes the only…