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Internet Explorer 8 Accelerator: Preview and Launch URL

This Internet Explorer 8 accelerator allows you to select a text URL on a web page (or mouse over a hyperlink), and it will generate a website thumbnail for the selected URL (using the free websnapr service).

This accelerator supports URLs which either have no prefix or is prefixed with either http:// or https://.

For the selected URL, the user has the option of launching the URL immediately without needing to copy and paste the selected URL text string into the Internet Explorer address bar.

Click here to install the “Preview and Launch URL” accelerator

(You will need to be using Internet Explorer 8 in order to install this).

Source files can be found here.

You can test the accelerator by using the following text links and hyperlinks:

armchairtheorist.com
facebook.com
www.elipva.com
http://espn.go.com
https://www.vpost.com.sg/login.html
Try this link!
Try this relative link!

Visit the Internet Explorer Gallery for more accelerators and Internet Explorer 8 goodness!

Simple Pingback Tool

It can be incredibly frustrating at times when Wordpress acts up and doesn’t send out pingbacks properly.

This is a simple Windows batch file which uses cURL to manually send a pingback.

Usage:

pingback <Source URL> <Target URL> <Pingback URL>

The Source URL is the absolute URI of the post on the source page containing the link to the target site.

The Target URL is the absolute URI of the target of the link, as given on the source page.

The Pingback URL is the absolute URI of the pingback XML-RPC server.

Example:

pingback http://armchairtheorist.com/some-blog-post/ http://someotherblog.com/some-other-blog-post/ http://someotherblog.com/xmlrpc.php

The tool will then output the XML-RPC response as per specified in the Pingback specifications so you will know whether your pingback attempt was successful or not.

Download the Simple Pingback Tool here.

This package includes the Windows version of cURL 7.18.0 with SSL support.