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Optool, a smart browser switcher - Today's Browser Tip
by Jason Clarke Apr 7th 2006 at 10:00AM
In today's day and age of multiple viable browsers, it
can be a minor annoyance to have to copy and paste URLs from one browser window to another to move a page from, say,
Opera to Firefox. Or IE to Netcaptor. Or Maxthon to Firefox. You get the picture.
For many, simply having the option of rendering a page with the IE engine as an alternative to Firefox is all you need; in that case give the IE Tab Firefox extension a whirl. It can render a page using IE right in a tab in Firefox. Very cool.
But for those with more challenging multiple browser scenarios, Optool is the solution. With the tap of a hot-key, or an ingenious long right-click, a page can be moved from one browser to another with no fuss, no muss. Out of the box, Optool supports and can automatically detect Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer (multiple installations), Netcaptor, and Netscape. And if that's not quite enough for you (hey, where's Maxthon?!) you can manually configure additional browsers.
Optool is not quite free, although it's close. If you find you use it regularly, the author of Optool requests that you send him a postcard from your location. Hey, that's not too much to ask, right?
[via Chris Pirillo]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mouser said 1:16AM on 4-08-2006
another system-tray based browser switcher:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/browsertray/index.html
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