The few attempts at interface customization, like the toolbar in MS Office, have failed miserably.
It's easy to add these in just by hitting the "new" button on the bottom toolbar.
In particular, it has added a Dell-branded Bing toolbar to the Internet Explorer browser.
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Li Chiway in the Philippines emailed in suggesting the Altavista toolbar as being worthy of review.
Just bubbling under in the toolbar comparisons is A9, which is a spin off of Amazon.com.
One interesting application the patent highlights is video annotation and editing via a gesture-based toolbar.
It also has a feature for searching the Web via Google.com integrated directly into the toolbar.
"Typically what Google shows in the toolbar is not what they use behind the scenes, " he says.
Opera claims its advertising chops can help the Skyfire Horizon mobile browser and toolbar applications as well.
We will say this: the addition of the large toolbar from the home screen is a nice touch.
Without it, accurately selecting toolbar buttons and controls was often difficult and precisely wielding photo-editing tools was impossible.
Amazon's borrowed the browser-like toolbar from the home screen, whose large icons push things down the page a bit.
In addition to this toolbar, another fixture of Tumblr are the tiny little hearts on each post that get published.
Drag it up to your browser's toolbar and it will search pages like Facebook for songs and videos to import.
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The toolbar would provide pre-set options for beginners, but would also allow more advanced users to customize their own gestures.
Drag the text to its final position in the document, then click the Format WordArt button on the WordArt toolbar.
Founded in 2005, Meebo started out as a browser-based instant messaging service and expanded into a social toolbar product for publishers.
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Obviously for an ARPG-aholic like myself, the lack of a 50-button toolbar and the focus on timing and skill all sounds great.
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Google actually had this idea first, but with Google it is still a separate application and not yet incorporated into the toolbar.
Google's engineers contribute code to Firefox and pay the foundation a share of advertising when people search Google in the browser's toolbar.
The 5-button toolbar is also very, very welcome, especially since there are no cool downs, only the use of magic points and stamina.
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The latest release of this free program has a Music button on the main toolbar that lets you find streaming media on the Web.
Stumbleupon was originally written as a Firefox extension, a toolbar you could put in your browser to help you find and share Web sites.
The default browser includes an interesting toolbar at the bottom with the usual navigation keys like Back and Forward along with a Zoom key.
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But there is one feature of note: it does provide a basic translation of a foreign webpage using Babelfish, from one button on the toolbar.
An Apixio search toolbar will be embedded in its NextGen records.
This means that some of the information that you search for the A9 toolbar, and the results that you get, can be linked to you personally.
The MSN toolbar also comes with a desktop search application which indexes the contents of your local computer so you can find files and messages quickly.
Axis will be included as part of current toolbar bundling deals with Firefox and Internet Explorer that last year resulted in Yahoo shipping over 80 million browsers.
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For example, you can use PageRank Checker to submit a URL, or you can install Google's Toolbar to view each site's PageRank as you browse.
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