Site pinning and jumplists
Once a site is opened, content from that page can be ‘pinned’ to the Windows 7 Taskbar. You can drag the whole tab down to the Taskbar or just the site’s favicon. Once a site is pinned to the Taskbar, each icon creates a ‘jumplist’ – a menu relevant to that site. Hovering over an icon will bring up a menu with tasks, tools and options relevant to that site. For example, if you pin Hotmail, the jumplist will bring up individual links to each of your mail folders.
Some sites have partnered with IE9 so that notifications appear on the Taskbar. For example, if you have Facebook open and someone writes on your wall, a notification message will show up on that icon on the Taskbar. Similarly, on compatible sites, these icon thumbnails can have preview controls making it possible to play, rewind and pause entertainment from the Taskbar rather than having to view the content in a tab.
Speed
Microsoft claims that because IE9 links to both Windows 7 and the hardware of the PC, the browser – and surfing in general – becomes faster. Accessing sites from the Windows 7 Taskbar automatically cuts down the time it takes to get online when compared to opening the browser, waiting for it to load, searching for a site and surfing. Jumplists make this faster still by sending you to specific pages within sites and bypassing homepages and navigation bars.
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When you are going to marry, chance is that you will want everybody around the world knows that you are going to marry, with someone, at a specific date, at a certain place. Invitations indeed had been made but you feel the necessity to announce to wider public your last day as a bachelor or maiden so that you want to spread your wedding posters all over the neighborhood. If you think that the designers in the agencies will consider you as a too enthusiastic person, you can design the posters yourself.
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For the first time in history, an IBM computer will be taking center stage on the well-known game show, Jeopardy. Playing against two other phenomenal Jeopardy players, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, this supercomputer named Watson, will have to defeat the running champion to claim its title. To be taped and aired in mid February, trivia watchers from around the globe will be glued to their televisions, to see if a computer can truly act human enough to compete, and be knowledgeable enough to win.
A computer with a personality? This lifelike computer screen changes color to depict different emotions. In altering its colors, it also expresses to the audience its certainty in answering questions. It has to work as fast as the other contestants, in clicking its game show buzzer. Within three seconds the computer has to check its systems to see if it has a possible answer, and click the buzzer immediately thereafter. In person, audience members are saying it’s “unbelievable to watch”. With a computer voice that answers questions, this computer is projecting a different type of personality than that of Jeopardy competitors that fans are immune to.
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