Tag: TOOLTIP

I'm not a big fan of status bars in browsers. Most of the time, they're just wasting 20 or so pixels of vertical display space. That doesn't mean I want to miss out on the functions the status bar provides - like displaying the destination of links I hover over. The URL Tooltip addon offers a simple remedy for that. Once installed, you'll see a tooltip balloon whenever you park your pointer ...

While we know a lot of folks like to pan Windows Vista's new graphics as useless eye candy, there are a few aspects of the Aero interface that are actually pretty useful. For example, in Windows Vista you can get a real-time thumbnail preview of running applications by scrolling over the Windows taskbar. But you can get this feature without switching operating systems, thanks to Visual ToolTip, ...