(1) IE7Pro (only IE 7) – little overwhelming and takes some time to get used to, but totally worth it. Includes powerful tab manager, AD or Flash blocking utility, Crash recovery, Proxy switcher, Web accelerator, User Agent switcher, Webpage capturer, Greasemonkey scripts support, Firefox style inline search, spell checker and some more.

(2) LeechVideo – handy IE addon that lets you download favorite videos from popular video sharing websites (i.e. Youtube, Google Video, DailyMotion, etc.). Other alternatives: Viloader | Video Downloader

(3) Inline Search – integrates an in-page search feature to Internet Explorer. Use ‘CTR+F’ to launch it in the left-bottom corner of your browser window.

(4) ShareThis – lets you quickly (1) email webpages (or embedded pictures or videos) to friends or contacts (gmail, myspace, facebook…) and (2) post notes to your Facebook/Myspace profiles.

(5) Convert with Zamzar – browser addon from a comprehensive, web-based file conversion service, Zamzar. Lets you convert and download desired files from your favorite websites at the click of a button on your browser toolbar. It can be a Youtube video that you want to play in Windows Media Player, a Flickr image that you need in JPEG format, or a word file that you need in PDF.

(6) Browster – integrates link preview capabilities into your browser. For instance, each time you search on Google, Yahoo, MSN or visit some popular website Browster places a special icon next to each link, hovering your mouse cursor over it triggers a pop-up window displaying the contents of the destination page. Other alternative: Cooliris

(7) FeedsPlus (only IE 7) – in case you’re using your browser to follow-up on feeds, then this is for you. It adds couple of handy features, i.e. ability to read feeds in a combined view and receive pop-up notifications when there are new items to read.

(8) ieSpell – allows you to spell check text input boxes on any webpage (i.e. web mails, forum posts, blog comments, etc.)

(9) McAfee Site Advisor (only IE 5.5 – 6.0) – slim and easy-to-use security addon, features include:

• protects you from adware, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams
• advises you about the safety of websites using a colored button in your browser
• places website safety ratings next to each search result

(10) IeSessions – lets you save the current state of all open windows/tabs, store it to a file and restore it anytime afterwards. Especially useful if you have to switch between multiple computers (i.e. office, home) during the day.

(11) Videoronk (only IE 7) – add ‘Videoronk’ to your search toolbar and you’ll be able to search on top 8 video sharing websites simultaneously (Youtube, Google Video, Vimeo, Metacafe, iFilm, Blip.tv, Revver, DailyMotion and Myspace Video).

 (12) Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (only IE 7) – The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.

Recently our team came across a situation where our job was to retrieve ArrayList in a page requested by flex application using HttpService.Which are accessed using Request[keyName]

Request objects always returns data in string format, so there was no point in trying that solution, so we were looking for some reliable and optimal solution. Googling around I came across JSON (Javascript Object Notation).JSON can be used in various languages, you can find the list of langauges and the resources requied to use JSON over here.

JSON allows us to serialize a object and send across a page in string format.All we need to do is to perform Deserialization on the requested page.

This is the sample code which demonstrates the use of JSON to send arraylist to another page.

The code below contains 2 arraylist which need to be send on another page.The arraylist are serialized and sent to different page with the help of querystring.

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
ArrayList list1 = new ArrayList();
list1.Add("one-one");
list1.Add("one-two");
list1.Add("one-three");
list1.Add("one-four");
list.Add(list1);
list.Add("two");
list.Add("three");
string arrayList = JavaScriptConvert.SerializeObject(list);
Response.Redirect("Process.aspx?list="+arrayList);

The code below Deserialize and typecast the object to JavaScriptArray.

string arrayList = Request["list"];
JavaScriptArray list = (JavaScriptArray)JavaScriptConvert.DeserializeObject(arrayList);

You can download sample code from here.

Enjoy Coding