Posts tagged del.icio.us

Internet Explorer and del.icio.us bookmarks extension

May 19th

One week ago Del.Icio.Us released their new beta extension for Internet Explorer (6.0,7.0 and 8.0). I am using the IE extension button for a while at work & home to tag and group my Internet favorites. To me this is one of best tools you should have when using Internet. In the past I struggled many times with different kind of favorites folders and sync those with Firefox and vise-versa. The features and look and feel were already available for Firefox and now finally with IE.

Near instantaneous searching with very large accounts (over 10K bookmarks)

Full del.icio.us sidebar and toolbar implementation with bookmark sync and typedown search

Toolbar indicators for new network activity and links for you

Works on IE6, IE7, and IE8 beta on both XP and Vista

To download the plugin please go to http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/05/internet-explorer-and-delicious.html

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Internet Explorer 7 Search Providers howto and my favorite ones

Apr 5th

Posted by Ivan Versluis in IE

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Couple times I tried to get my IE Search box customized with my own search providers. I read the AddSearchProvider Method from MSDN website and than created couple of my favorite website to have them in my search box available.

One of my XML files I created for Networknet.nl Search Provider. Create your own xml file and store it on your webserver; create new button to add the Search Provider you specified in the XML file e.g. .

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
    <ShortName>Networknet.nl</ShortName>
    <Description>Networknet.nl Blog Search</Description>
    <Url type=”text/html” template=”http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/?s={searchTerms}&rls=com.microsoft:{language}&ie={inputEncoding}&oe={outputEncoding}&startIndex={startIndex?}&startPage={startPage}” />
</OpenSearchDescription>

<INPUT TYPE=”button” VALUE=”Del.Icio.Us by word” onClick=’window.external.AddSearchProvider(“http://www.networknet.nl/apps/content/searchproviders/del-icio-us.xml”);’>

Basically try to find the search string for the website your are trying to query and add the {searchTerms} in the XML file.