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DevLink 2011– Remember What Forrest Would Say

Saturday evening I arrived back in Hattiesburg after spending a week in Chattanooga, TN and the DevLINK Technical Conference. I had a blast at DevLINK. Here’s a recap of the week’s activities. Live Radio Thursday evening John Kellar (DevLINK Chairman), Todd Anglin (Telerik) and myself were on the...

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IE8 Download Notification in Windows 7

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet, MVP10, Windows | Posted on 15-09-2009

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Ever started a download and then wondered how much time it had before it finished?  Me too.  I just noticed this feature in the new taskbar of Windows 7 on the Internet Explorer 8 icon. 

Zune 4.0 was just released so I kicked off a download.  A few minutes later I was wondering how far along it was. 

I happened to glance down at the task bar in Windows 7 and noticed this:

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The Internet Explorer 8 icon was filling up, moving to the right as the download progressed. Here is typical download window.  Very cool and something I hadn’t noticed before nor seen anyone mention on the Internets.

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Good to know and a nice use of the new task bar, I mean dock, I mean task bar in Windows 7.

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