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page at eBay, Amazon, or Yahoo and tell IE to track the auction. Doing so adds the auctionto the Auction Manager window, which is modeled after IE’s innovative download manager.In theory, IE can keep you up-to-date by telling you the high bidder and the time remainingfor each auction. But the Auction Manager turns out to be limited. It only shows the highbidderif it’s you, it doesn’t show the actual bid amount, and it doesn’t let you place bids. It’salso clumsy. You must re-enter your bidding ID and tracking options for each auction thatyou track, and you’ll often want to rename auctions in the Auction Manager because IEnames them with the title of the bidding page instead of the name of the item. IE’s AuctionManager is convenient because it’s built right into the browser, but at present it’s only a slightextension of the IE 4.5 Subscriptions feature, which few people found useful. If you’re seriousabout online auctions, you should instead check out a stand-alone utility such asA.I.D. 14 or Auction Action Tracker 15 .UsabilityJust as important as all the new features, Microsoft has improved the usability of IE. Version5 adds keyboard shortcuts for common actions, including enlarging and reducing text.(Although it unfortunately provides neither a button nor a shortcut for toggling the renderingresolution between 72 and 96 dpi.) My favorite keyboard shortcut is Command-~ whichcycles windows, just like in iCab. Other commands are easily accessible in contextualmenus, which now contain only the essentials.You can Command-click title bars to tunnel up the hierarchy of a Web page, just like in theFinder. And, like the Finder, you can hold down the Command key to drag-scroll using the14. http://www.atpm.com/6.02/aid.shtml15. http://www.atpm.com/5.11/aat.shtmlATPM 6.04 ← 103 →Stuff: Internet Explorer 5.0