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Alerts can be setup in Internet Explorer 8 which can play a sound when there is an update for a monitored webslice from a website or when a website is found for a webpage.

Webslices in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is a new feature similar to RSS which allows you to monitor and subscribe to a part of a website that supports the feature. I just wrote here with an example on eBay IE8 website

While we all know Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is still in early beta release and has much of feature enhancements. One of the new great features in Internet Explorer 8 is “WebSlices”.
As the name implies, “WebSlices” is a new feature for websites that enables users to subscribe to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave [...]

Internet Explorer 8 hosts a cheeky little security feature called Domain Highlighting. This is a simple feature which highlights the Top Level Domain of a website in black while greying out the rest of the website link.
A Top Level Domain is the primary domain name of any site which can have any number of Subdomains. [...]

Activities in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is a new feature which allow information on a website be looked up or sent to another application making websites more user controlled and interactive.
As you know, adding an activity is as simple as a click. Sometimes, you want to delete an activity that you added. Could be you [...]