These days the big boys of software, e.g. Microsoft or Google keep releasing small application in a silent mode. Some of these are very useful, but unfortunately because they are so small and get released here and there, you don’t always hear about them. Today I came across Windows Live Toolbar and so far I have discovered a couple of really useful features with it. To demo something I have been wishing for a long time is highlighting an address and getting a map rather than cut and pasting it into one of the map sites. Here is an example:

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There are other useful things you can do but I will leave that for your own exploring. You would need Internet Explorer 6 or higher.