Just recently I downloaded Windows Live Toolbar and I must say it is quite useful. First of all its got two really cool features called highlight and text search. With highlight, searched items will be highlighted allowing you to easily navigate to the point of search. I often used to find myself struggling with finding the correct content in large technical blogs. Search allows you to highlight text within a webpage and start a live search (OR find definitions with Encarta OR news article) with a click of a button. This saves so much time, as you no longer have to start a new tab, go to the search engine (live.com of course 
) and type the keyword.
Aside from the two in-built features, the toolbar really excels by being extensible. This allows you to create your own toolbar buttons or download them from sites like http://gallery.live.com/, some of the preloaded buttons include a wikipedia, news reader, rss feed reader.
One of the coolest things about the Windows Live Toolbar is the ability to keep your IE favourites in sync with favorites.live.com. In that way they’re always backed up and you can access them from any machine.
By: Kristian Kalsing on July 5, 2007
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