Open IE7 with a list of URLs each in its own tab

Well I had spent some time when IE7 first came out, and then again maybe 6 months after, trying to find a solution for this. I want IE7 to open with multiple web sites already up, each in its own tab. IE7 does not support this via command line. I looked into scripting it, but didn't find anything really stable or usable.

However some more time has gone by, and somebody has figured it out:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2007/01/19/ie-automation-amp-tabs.aspx

I had to do some playing, adding try-catch blocks to each URL line, and then changing the order of the URLs around quite a bit. It seems that problems with the target site really affects this script. But I did get it to work reliably. Thanks Tony!

Internet Explorer for Mac and Linux

This for testing web development against IE, from Mac or Linux machines...

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

Seen here:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Webworkerdaily/~3/189386647/

Meebo opens up - adds applications and APIs

http://blog.meebo.com/?p=370

Meebo continues to amaze and delight. They had me at hello, which was web-based IM for multiple services, no downloads, no Java. Then they let me talk across multiple services. They added group chat. Logging. Millions of other enhancements like the sound alerts and visual cues (via the browser!) for new messages. A chat widget I can add to web pages for people to talk to me. Meebo rooms, which can include multimedia you can share with a group. They are super-responsive and sensitive to their customers, for instance speeding up shutdown times recently.

Now they have kicked it up another notch by opening up their platform ala Facebook for applications. For instance rather than writing video and audio chat, they just wrote an application for some of the other great services out there. And other developers can use it too! Awesome. These guys rock!