Jul 21

This article describes how to install explorer on . Explorer is necessary for certain class of users, especially web developers and designer. For these users, they need to test their web pages on explorer, since majority of the users still use IE. So people who use still log in to windows machine for IE. Here is an oppurtunity to move those kind of user completely to .

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Jul 21

you can make a reader out of or any other text editor (like notepad) - just follow these steps:

Step 1: Change the file extension of your file to .zip (hello. -> hello.zip)

Step 2: Extract the contents of this zip file locally using Winzip or any other unzip utility.

Step 3: Open the “word” folder in the extracted files and you should see a file called document.xml.

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Jul 14

Microsoft has revealed the Features List and Download page for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.

This release contains some great advances in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layout, programming model, performance, reliability, usability and service integration. We are eager to ensure that the transition to Internet Explorer 8 is seamless for you and your audience, and to give you a head start on using many of the new features with your sites and services. We encourage you to test your sites and services, and our platform implementation, and give us feedback.

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Jul 14

IEs4Linux provides a convenient package of 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and (partially supported) 7.0 for .

It installed and runs fine under Debian Etch:


IE6 under Linux screenshot

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Jul 14

Internet Explorer users are a bit at the bottom when it comes to useful add-ons for their browser. Sure, there is IE7 Pro which is a fantastic add-on but can you name other ones? I’m not using Internet Explorer regularly and one factor that is playing a role is the lack of add-ons that add features to the browser. In addition I think that the Windows Marketplace, that is the website that stores add-ons for Internet Explorer, is rather complex. There is no way to display only free add-ons for Microsoft Internet Explorer for example.

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Jul 14

This is interesting - a software letting you run IE 5, 5.5., 6 and 7 (beta) on your Mac without needing parallels. This could be great for testing.

Its called ies4osx and requires OSX tiger or leopard, and an Intel machine. On tiger you need have to installed X11.

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