Browster
May 27th, 2006
I read about Browster on Cnet and was intrigued. One minute later and I was thrilled! You see, most of my reading work is done via Aggie (my lovely and overworked aggregator) and if I read a summary post and click through, that takes time. Remember that I now have over 700 feeds in Aggie (I told you, she works hard)
My informercial presentation on “Keeping Current in 40 minutes or less, Guaranteed!”, may actually become “Keeping Current in 30 minutes or less, Guaranteed!” because of Browster. It saves loads of click time. Here’s how.
When reading my aggregator, I hate to move away from it, unless I really have to. With Browster, I “mouse over” a link, find a little box right above the mouse arrow and a new “browser” opens with the full text of the post (in fact, it’s the actual site). No clicking! I can then read the story and, if I’m interested, I can make this “browser” into a real browser and move on. If I’m not interested, I just move it off that new window and it disappears. This is truly an amazing little tool and very free!
My one complaint is that it doesn’t work for Maxthon. It should because Maxthon is just an IE skin. But sadly, it doesn’t. Still, this is one of my favorite downloads and tools for this year. Go go gadget Browster!