With so many powerful extensions to choose from for Internet Explorer 7, we recognize it can be difficult to decide which ones to install. To help you find what you need to enhance your Internet experience, I have compiled a list of some of my favorites.

Enhance IE7's Feature Set

1)Inline Search by Core Systems

Inline Search is an extremely useful free add-on for Internet Explorer that adds while-you-type searching within the current page, with the option to highlight all occurrences of your search term. It integrates flawlessly into IE7, giving it that little extra that makes you a lot more efficient when you are looking for a specific piece of information on a web page.

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2) IESpell by RedEgg Software

IESpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell-checks text-input boxes on a Web page. It will come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of Web-based text entry (Web mail, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your Web application already includes spell-checking functionality, this utility is faster than a server-side solution. Plus, you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications instead of having to maintain separate ones on each application.

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Discover New Sites and Share Your Favorites

1)StumbleUpon Toolbar by StumbleUpon

The StumbleUpon Toolbar for Internet Explorer allows you to 'channel surf' the Internet and discover great websites and web content according to your interests. Whether it's a website, video, picture, game, blog, or wiki, StumbleUpon helps you find interesting stuff recommended by like-minded people with just a single click of the Stumble! button. The more you use it, the better it gets. Join over 1.3 million users who have rated over 7 million websites.

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2)Del.icio.us Toolbar by Del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to: Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web, share favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community, and to discover new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone's favorite -- they've already done the work of finding it.

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3) Trailfire

Trailfire provides a unique new method of web navigation. By leaving "Trailmarks", which are essentially electronic notes, on individual web pages, users can lead their Trailfire contacts on an interpretive trail for the web. You can use the trailmarks to express your opinions on sites you visit, to plan a vacation, or for any number of clever uses not yet invented. This add-on for IE7 makes it possible to experience the web in a far more personal way than ever before.

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Develop High Performance Web Applications

1)Microsoft® Silverlight™

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Microsoft Silverlight, previously called Windows® Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E), integrates with existing Web technologies and assets to provide higher-quality experiences with lower costs for media delivery. Delivered to end users through a seamless, fast installation, Silverlight offers consistent experiences to both Macintosh and Windows users on a variety of browsers including Internet Explorer®, Firefox and Safari.

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2) Microsoft Fiddler by Microsoft Corporation

Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy, which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and fiddle with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem. Version 1.1.9 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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IE Developer Toolbar by Microsoft Corporation

1) The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. Features include: explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page; locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques; selectively disable Internet Explorer settings; view HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys; outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags; validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.

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Enjoy Games and Entertainment

1)Flash Player by Adobe Systems

Flash Player 9 is a lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices. Flash Player 9 builds on the advances in Flash Player 8 by focusing on three main areas: creating a more robust programming model, achieving standards compliance, and improving performance.

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2)Shockwave Player by Adobe Systems

A must-have for online gaming and entertainment, Shockwave Player is a browser plug-in that allows you to experience 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications.

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Quickly Access Your Information

1) 1-Click Answers by Answers

1-Click Answers provides instant access to almost four million topics from any program, without interrupting your work. Just alt-click on any word or phrase on your screen (e-mail, browser, any Office program) and get instant answers, facts and explanations in a concise AnswerTip information bubble. Click the more button and access Answers.com, a completely free online reference library, offering over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and other trusted sources. Topics include science, legal, business and health terms as well as bios, maps, news, weather and more. Alternatively, type a topic into the included IE Toolbar or AnswerBar, a convenient pop-out utility docked on the side of your screen.

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2) Windows Live Toolbar by Microsoft Corporation

Windows Live Toolbar helps you find information on the Internet faster and more securely. It lets you: search from any Web page; see a warning when a site may be trying to scam your personal info; cut down on unwanted pop-ups; scan your PC for viruses and improve your PCs performance; collect, organize, and share the info you find online; auto-detect a site's RSS feeds, and have them automatically sent to your personalized Live.com home page. In addition, you can effortlessly customize your toolbar with only the buttons you want, access your favorites from any PC , and fill in Web forms instantly.

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Keep Up to Date on News and Feeds

1) Newsgator Desktop Sync by Newsgator

In the 24x7 news world, RSS helps you stay on top of the surge of Internet news and information. The built-in support for RSS in IE7 enables web-based RSS-aggregators like Newsgator to synchronize directly with the RSS store on your computer. With the Newsgator add-on, the RSS feeds you subscribe to within IE7 will automatically be made available to your Newsgator site.

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2) Bloglines by Bloglines

This add-on lets users take advantage of the Bloglines RSS aggregator from within the browser to subscribe to RSS feeds with one click. The add-on is integrated using the RSS platform built into IE7. Now your Bloglines subscriptions are easily accessible and always available from within IE7.

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Share Your Story

Windows Live Writer (Beta) by Microsoft Corporation
Windows Live Writer is the one-stop shop for all your blogging needs. Compose, edit, save drafts, and publish all from a WYSIWYG interface customized to the stylesheet of your particular blog site. With support for any site which exposes Really Simple Discoverability, Metaweblog API, or MoveableType API, you will never need another blog editing tool.

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