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Google Toolbar and SmartTags
Google Toolbar 3 Released: The new version of the Google toolbar is out, and it has what could become a controversial feature.
With this feature enabled, certain unlinked web page information will turn to links automatically. The kind of text triggering this will be US addresses, Package Tracking Numbers, ISBNs, and Vehicle Identification Numbers. This is somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft’s Smart Tags, which they failed to introduce some years ago…
Web form spellcheck is nice too, but I have that with Spellbound.
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Greasemonkey
Firefox add-on lets surfers tweak sites, but is it safe?: This Greasemonkey extension is getting a lot of coverage these days. Essentially, it lets you write JavaScript that's applied to individual pages automatically. So if there's this one page that shows too many ads, you can write some…
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Spellbound
SpellBound - Spellchecker for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite: All those comments this morning about my spelling made me self-conscious. This works beautifully. SpellBound is a port of the spellchecker code and user interface from the Mozilla Suite's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms such as html textarea…
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"will turn to links automatically" where automatically is defined as "after the user decides she wants them to and clicks a button."
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