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Archive for February, 2006

Google Toolbar Privacy Concerns

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Graywolf points out in his recent entry, that Google documented in their 2005 Patent filing a mechanism to use bookmark information to determine page relevancy.
This, in conjuction with the recent news about the government subpeona against Google to provide them information, demonstrates the sort of privacy concerns that exist in using browser toolbars that save […]

Google Toolbar Version 4 Beta

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Google has recently released version 4 of their toolbar.

There are a number of new features in this version (and thus the Beta designation):
Enhanced Search Box
As you type into the browser’s search box, matches to what you’ve typed in so far will appear in a drop-menu below the search box along with the number […]

Developer Toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Microsoft has a web developer toolbar available for IE, designed to help web professionals analyze, develop, and debug web pages.
According to the Microsoft Website, the toolbar has the following features:

Examine and modify the document object model of a Web page.
Locate and select specific elements on a Web page.
Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
View HTML object class […]