Internet Explorer

For the past few weeks, I've been using AOL Explorer instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer to browse the web and it's opened my eyes to a new world of internet exploring.

I'm what you would think of as a power surfer. I like reading ten different web pages at a time and, much to the annoyance of Kristen (my wife), I click back and forth between web pages at frequent intervals. As you can imagine, anyone looking over my shoulder trying to read the news article, e-mail, or weather needs a quick eye to read it all... or fast reflexes like Kristen, who immediately smacks me on the shoulder and says "hey, I was reading that."

Well, now with AOL explorer (or Mozilla Firefox), I can have five or six pages open at a time and not five or six icons in my toolbar that all say "Internet Explorer". It's called tabbed browsing and instead of creating a new bar, it just creates a new tab (like a tab in Excel). Now, I can switch to a different page even faster and know exacly what page I'm going to. Cool!

Another great thing is a skinny little toolbar on the left with Mail, Favorites, Channels, Feeds (*cool) History, and others. The feeds button is great because I can look check on any new additions to news or blog feeds without having to browse to the web page. Which reminds me, any of you who have blogs should create a feed so I can add it to my new favorite button :)

Anyway, I'm still trying to keep up on posting to this blog frequently, so keep checking.