Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

We just installed a nice tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, and more.
Now, when you look at this blog, you'll notice a small dialog box on the right side of every hot link. As you mouse over this box and pause, you'll see a larger box pop up with a preview of the site. As visual thinkers, we think this makes the links far more valuable to our readers than they were before we installed this great tool. It gives the reader more choices in the navigation of this blog's content.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

If you want to install this tool on your blog, the link is here. A few pointers on installing this tool

1)The default install is for both the icon and the link to show the pop up. That turned out to be too distracting, We went back to install and chose option two: only mousing over the icon gives the pop-up box.
2)Don't worry if you didn't get it right the first time; the Snap site sends a confirming email that has a customization link in it. It took me five minutes to change my settings.
3)When the Snap site changes your settings. all it really does is place a new widget on your blog You should remove the first widget you installed before you install the second time to avoid confusion.