Friday, September 09, 2005

I highly recommend this....

I highly recommend everyone download and install the Google Toolbar. First of all, it does a great job of blocking popups and is much less intrusive than MSN toolbar or Yahoo or any of the other toolbars out there. Secondly, you can search using Google right from the toolbar, which I find extremely handy. Thirdly, you can put in your name, address, even credit card info (password protected), and have it auto-fill forms and stuff like that in web pages, another very handy feature. Finally, the latest version has this auto-translator feature that is really cool. You enable it, select the language you want to translate into, and every time your mouse hovers over a word on a web page, it shows you the translated version of that word. Now how cool is that?! I have mine set to Italian, of course. It’s very cool to see how to say “language”, for example, in Italian just by hovering my mouse over the word. There are other nifty features as well. Just go to Google, click on “more” on the top of the page, then scroll down under tools to find the Google toolbar. I think it’s pretty darned cool!

Edit: I created and posted the above entry using the new Blogger for Word add-on. WAY COOL! It makes posting to your blog so much easier and faster! You just install it, enter your Blogger logon info, type your little heart out, and then click Publish. Voila! It's posted! The best thing Blogger has invented yet!