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Softomate Toolbar Studio v4.1.0.19
Fize Size:9201KB Language:English OS:Win2000/XP/2003 Date added:July 23,2008
License:Shareware WEB:http://www.besttoolbars.net/
Last Search:
This button takes you back to the last search you performed, displaying the last result page you generated. You can turn this feature on or off.
Combined Search:
The Combined Search is a great way to save place on your Toolbar while still retaining access to all the different ways to search. Simply enter search terms in the search box and click on the main part of the button to search, or click the little triangle on the right-hand end of the button to bring down a menu of different search types. Pick one of the items from the list and it will become default. Combined Search - Combines many search options into one.
Clear Search History:
The Toolbar remembers a user's recent search history. The recent searches can be accessed by clicking the down arrow to the right of the search box. A "Clear Search History" option allows your customers to clear the history on the search box.
Cursor / Context Search:
With the cursor search feature users can quickly conduct a search on a word or phrase within any Web page by simply highlighting it and right-clicking their mouse selecting appropriate "Search" from the pop-up menu.
Word Find Feature:
Your customers can locate search terms on a page and navigate to them. When they enter search terms in the search box, extra buttons containing these terms will appear on the right end of the Toolbar. By clicking on these buttons your customers can jump to the next occurrence of that word on the page. Each word has its own button.
Search Word Highlighting:
The highlight feature allows your users to locate their search terms on the search results page(s). Clicking the "Highlight" button will highlight all their search terms in different colors on the search results page. The highlight feature is a toggle switch that may be turned on or off simply by clicking on it.
Catch Searches on Different Engines:
You can catch the searches that the user makes on different search engines so that the keywords they were searching for (e.g. on Google or Yahoo) will automatically be substituted into the search box of your toolbar. It will take a single click on the toolbar to search using your toolbar for the same keywords.
Rival Search:
The rival search plug-in provides additional left-aligned IE panel when the user does a search in the web. This panel can display alternative search result¡¯s (for example produced by your search engine) search engine.
Tabbed Search:
The plug-in inserts search box and button to launch the tabbed search. If user starts searching a row of tabs will be opened: each tab is different search option, e.g. search for music, search for images, search for video and etc. So you can specify as many tabs as you want and each one will execute its own specific search using keywords from only search box.
Dynamic Configuration Files:
You can put the configuration .XML file within the toolbar distribution, or you can also put it on your web sever achieving truly dynamic toolbar behavior. By editing a single text (XML) file on your web server, you can completely change the look and operation of the toolbar without the need for your customers to upgrade the toolbar.
External Toolbar Javascript Interface:
The Toolbar has an external program interface. You can access toolbar properties (to read or write) via JavaScript and also pass this information to the server in response to the user clicking a button or menu item in the toolbar. Properties available from JavaScript include current version of the toolbar, Unique Toolbar ID, User ID that you can set/read, user name and user password primary aimed to implement authentication through the toolbar, toolbar settings and configuration. The current URL and current domain that the user has open in their browser are also accessible.
View Toolbar JS Interface & Samples
Toolbar Scripting:
It opens a window into a world of new opportunities. In our recent version you can script the toolbar using JavaScript. You can also access the HTML currently being viewed from the toolbar via JavaScript. This way you can implement keyword matching, content analysis or ranking mechanisms into your toolbar. Your customers will be amazed by new features that you can make available to them.
Ping Plug-In:
This plug-in is similar to New! all-nettools Ping Plug-In:, but now you are pinging the host from the local machine using the standard Windows ¡®ping.exe¡¯.
Checkboxes and Radio Button:
You can add checkboxes and radio buttons on your toolbar if you want to enable your users to toggle some options.
Mini Web Page:
You can put a mini web page on your toolbar. This opens the door to unlimited toolbar content. Using this you can put notifications, banners, animations and sounds into your toolbar. You can put a page directly on a toolbar (BANNER feature) or as a minipage that opens up when the user clicks a button in a toolbar (BUBBLE feature).
Zoom In / Out feature:
By making this feature a part of the toolbar your users will be able to adjust the size of the pages they are browsing using the buttons on the toolbar.
Launch External Applications:
It is possible to run an external application from a button or menu item in the toolbar. You can run system commands, open Notepad to edit a file. You can even distribute .EXE applications with the toolbar and launch them, passing the keywords or URLs into command line.
Edit and password boxes:
You can put edit and password boxes on your toolbar.
Clear Cookies / Clear History:
The Toolbar can clear cookies and cache of the browser thus allowing your users to maintain their privacy. You can associate this feature to any menu item or button in your toolbar.
Accessibility of Site:
Using this feature you can easily check availability of specified domain name.
Screenshot of current page - Web Save plugin:
Save Internet pages as an image in .jpg graphic format or as a Web-archive.
Empty Browser Autocomplete:
Clears browser Autofill information for HTML forms and all passwords.
URL Shortcuts:
You can create shortcuts to favorite sites so instead of typing the complete website url just create small easy shortcut which you can type in the address bar and hit enter to quickly open the site. Will definitely be used by your customers.
WHOIS Service:
This useful plug-in adds the button or submenu to the toolbar which provides all the available information about an IP address, hostname or domain, including country, state or province, city, name of the network provider, administrator and technical support contact information by just one-mouse clicking. This plug-in is based on the www.all-nettools.com service.
Autofill Plug-In:
AutoFill is one-click web form filler. After easy Autofill plug-in configuration it implements the Autofill button to the toolbar using which you can automatically fill out any web forms. Enter your information and it¡¯s stored securely on your own computer. Clicking the AutoFill button will automatically complete a form.
Plug-in Interface:
The major distinction of ToolbarStudio v.2.17 is specially developed Plug-in interface. Toolbar plug-ins is a pack of additional services which will enlarge toolbar functionality. Now you need not to do programming or scripting to implement popular advanced features, just choose plug-in in the menu of the ToolbarStudio and configure it!
Custom Ping:
This feature allows ping any host, that specified in searchbox or current domain.
Clock Plug-In:
This plug-in adds nice clock showing the time at the specified place in the toolbar.
W3C CSS / Markup Validation:
This one will add a service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards for currently visited site..
W3C CSS Validation plug-in checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations for currently visited site.
Up One Level:
When your mouse cursor hovers over an English word on a web page, Word Translator shows you that word's translation in your preferred language. You can enable WordTranslator and set your language in Toolbar Options.
Mp3 Player Plug-In:
Add real MP3 player to your toolbar. When you insert the plug-in via ToolbarStudio you can
specify playlist with remote or local songs:
•local mp3 files will be packed into the CAB directly and distributed with it;
•remote mp3 files will be downloaded from your website just when playing.
Login Manager Plug-In:
Save your login accounts (e-mails, sites,forums,etc.) in one list and enter your sites automatically by one click.
E-mail Checker:
Check and access all of your email accounts automatically. Notifies you when you have new mail.
Tell a Friend:
Using command "mailto" create a mail with predefined caption and text with some substitutions.
Automatic Toolbar Upgrade:
For convenience, Advanced package Toolbar is automatically upgradeable! This means that all installed versions of your toolbar will be updated automatically from your site when a new version appears.
Automatic Installation:
Once downloaded the toolbar gets installed automatically and is integrated into the user's browser.
Uninstall feature:
The advanced package has an "Uninstall" feature included that allows your users to uninstall the toolbar simply by clicking an "Uninstall " link in the menu.
Distribute Additional Files with Your Toolbar:
You can distribute static HTML pages, Music, Flash and even executable programs (.EXE) with your toolbar. Integrate your .EXE with the toolbar and provide extensive functionality to toolbar users.
Don't Limit your creativity:
Do you need SMS, quotes, currency converter or a translation feature in your toolbar? We have scripts which can do all of the above.
If you are unsure how to achieve something please contact us at support@besttoolbars.net
No Limits at all:
If you are unsure whether the feature you are looking for is supported. Please ask our sales@besttoolbars.net. Get a Source Code for our toolbar and implement this yourself. What if you need specific feature? Please ask our development department to implement it for you. Based on your specifications we will provide a free estimation for the development. Our rate for custom software development is $20USD per hour.
News Ticker Integration:
If you want to keep your users informed and achieve higher interaction level you can put a scrolling news ticker or flashing news notifications on the toolbar. You can implement server side scripts to feed news to customers of your toolbar.
Dynamic Menu Content:
Menus and submenus can be created from the output of server side scripts (like PHP, Perl CGI or ASP). This could be your "Top 10 items", "hot list", "more search results" and so on.
You can specify what buttons the toolbar will have and what menu contents to show based on either the current URL opened in the browser or unique TOOLBAR ID.
TOOLBAR ID can be used to individualize appearance and features to your toolbar customers. You can also have multiple toolbar configurations for a single toolbar, one for logged in users and another for those who is not logged in.
Alerts:
Plugin "Alert" allows you to send instant messages to all users of your toolbar at once.
To make it work all you need is:
•put an HTML file on your server where you will keep current alert message. The file should be accessable via HTTP.
E.g. URL to it may be: http://yoursite.com/tbalert/alert.html.
•insert plugin "Alert" via ToolbarStudio into your toolbar and in plugin's wizard point the Source URL to the HTML alert page.
That's all! The plugin starts to work after you finish the plugin's wizard. Toolbar periodically reads the alert page from your server and shows it only if changed. So if you want to show some alert to the users -- just edit the alert page and toolbar will do all left work for you.
Weather On-Line:
Shows local weather as an image and temperature in F or C in real-time mode.
RSS Reader Plug-In:
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. RSS Reader plug-in allows easy implement RSS formatted news line to the toolbar. Don¡¯t leave your customers without latest news in the world!
Catcher for Explorer Address Bar:
With our ToolbarStudio you can use the advantages of built-in address bar and DNS catcher. You can configure that if the user of the toolbar mistypes an URL he will be redirected to YOUR page instead of standard explorer DNS error and Error 404 pages. You can also configure the toolbar so that whenever the user enters a word into Explorer address bar he gets redirected to your page.
Search Feed Integrator:
Use this plug-in in your toolbar to show feeds when user searches something using search or edit box in the toolbar. The plug-in allows you to insert feeds of one of existent well known search engines (allfeeds, loore, etc.).
Earn Money Feature:
When you sign up to Google's AdSense service, select AdSense for Search as type of the AdSense account. In the HTML code which Google will give you there is a code like this "AWFID:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" and here XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the desired ID.
Branding:
Brand your custom toolbar with your own logo. Let your customers know that you are just one click away!
Buttons, Images and Banners:
You can have unlimited number of buttons/banners on your toolbar. Each button can have a menu that pop-ups when the button is clicked. Alternatively clicking on a button can take your users to a predefined web page.
Easy Customization:
All customization is made from a simple XML file. You can add your logo, custom links, your search, buttons, banners, scrolling text, live news feeds, etc. See our download section for a handy XML customization tool (free).
Menu Add/Remove Button:
A special menu item that enables button showing or hiding.
XP Look and Feel:
Our toolbar now supports XP themes, so when installed on an XP machine it has a complete XP look and feel.
My Favorite Links:
The menu for each button can be customized by the user on the server.
Custom Toolbar Skin:
You can set a custom skin (background) for your toolbar. You can also set Internet Explorer's skin too! It works as simple as: installing the toolbar (automatically), then Internet Explorer's skin automatically changes to your corporate background. You can choose any picture for your toolbar's skin.
Multilingual Support:
You can easily manage different languages from the configuration file. When you add a new language to the configuration file, users will be able to select it from the menu. This feature is provided by free services, such as: FreeTranslation.com & Babelfish.altavista.com
Multiple Configurations:
Several configuration files can be used for the toolbar. This allows you to create several different appearances for your users or have several versions of toolbar in different languages.
Client Side Toolbar Preferences:
Each user can set personal preferences for their own toolbar:
- Buttons they wish to have on the toolbar
- Auto Complete
- Keep a search history in a drop-down list under the search box
- Run search drag automatically
- Update toolbar automatically, etc.
Hot Icons / Rollover Effect:
You can add animated icons to menu items, menu groups and buttons. Make your toolbar look more fancy!
Additional Visual Elements for Your Toolbar:
With the ToolbarStudio you can add select-style combo boxes to your toolbar, add static texts and buttons with custom graphics. Menu elements can have custom styles including the color for menu background, color for menu texts you can also specify colors used for highlighting of menu items. In case the toolbar do not fit fully on the desktop your customer will still be able to access the functionality of buttons and menu items (clicking on a double arrow button and selecting the appropriate element from the pop-up menu).
Popup-blocker:
Destroys unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads. Add this feature to your toolbar and your users will never see annoying pop-ups while surfing the web. One more advantage for your toolbar users! Popup blocker can be configured to count the number of blocked popups and play a sound/change the cursor shape when popup window is blocked.
Web Filter:
Advanced filtering blocks sites that disguise their true identity. This allows to filter webpages and block adult content by setting/changing a password.
Panic Button:
Hide all IE windows in one-click or using hotkey. Hotkey can be configured.
Anti-Ads Plug-In:
Anti-Ads plug-in will block banners, ad-links, ad-images, etc. This plug-in adds nice clock showing the time at the specified place in the toolbar.
Popup-blocker Manager:
You can now decide from which sites you want pop-up ads to be presented to your users.
Watch URL:
Toolbar can trigger actions based on the current URL being visited using the Watch URL feature. The toolbar can prompt a messenger alert, open the left panel, or launch a pop-up window when a specific URL is visited.
Site Ranking:
Display the importance of the page you viewing.
Site Info:
Enables users to learn about Web sites, including traffic information, contact info, etc.
Related Links:
Helps your users surf more efficiently by providing related links for each page.
Catcher DNS Error:
With our toolbar builder you can use the advantages of a built-in address bar and DNS catcher. You can configure it so that if a user mistypes a URL they will be redirected to YOUR page instead of the standard Internet Explorer DNS error page.
Set User Homepage:
You may add the following line to the SETTINGS section of the basis.XML file and the default homepage of the user will be set to the one you had defined : <HOMEPAGE href="www.yoursite.com"/>
Site Activation:
The plug-in makes you sure that your toolbar will be shown always on some "special" sites. Even if a user has hidden it: as soon as he goes to some "special" URL (e.g. your site), the toolbar is automatically shown.
ToolbarStudio Visual Interface:
ToolbarStudio has simple and logical interface and have context help always visible in the bottom-right corner.
ToolbarStudio Wizard:
Use a wizard like interface to create a toolbar in six easy steps. Wizard includes the most popular controls available in ToolbarStudio. The wizard will guide you through the steps of choosing which options to add, provide captions and icons for them, and build a toolbar setup ready for installation.
Exe Installer:
Create .exe installer for your toolbar. ToolbarStudio removes all the installed files and the cached files and also cleans the registry.
Cab Web/ActiveX Installer:
Once you are ready to publish your created toolbar on the web, you can create .exe installer or web ActiveX installer for your toolbar. These two options are available in the Tools menu of the ToolbarStudio.
Automatic Updates Publishing:
There's no need to check for new versions of Toolbar. Updates are installed automatically, so you'll always have the latest and greatest version.
This button takes you back to the last search you performed, displaying the last result page you generated. You can turn this feature on or off.
Combined Search:
The Combined Search is a great way to save place on your Toolbar while still retaining access to all the different ways to search. Simply enter search terms in the search box and click on the main part of the button to search, or click the little triangle on the right-hand end of the button to bring down a menu of different search types. Pick one of the items from the list and it will become default. Combined Search - Combines many search options into one.
Clear Search History:
The Toolbar remembers a user's recent search history. The recent searches can be accessed by clicking the down arrow to the right of the search box. A "Clear Search History" option allows your customers to clear the history on the search box.
Cursor / Context Search:
With the cursor search feature users can quickly conduct a search on a word or phrase within any Web page by simply highlighting it and right-clicking their mouse selecting appropriate "Search" from the pop-up menu.
Word Find Feature:
Your customers can locate search terms on a page and navigate to them. When they enter search terms in the search box, extra buttons containing these terms will appear on the right end of the Toolbar. By clicking on these buttons your customers can jump to the next occurrence of that word on the page. Each word has its own button.
Search Word Highlighting:
The highlight feature allows your users to locate their search terms on the search results page(s). Clicking the "Highlight" button will highlight all their search terms in different colors on the search results page. The highlight feature is a toggle switch that may be turned on or off simply by clicking on it.
Catch Searches on Different Engines:
You can catch the searches that the user makes on different search engines so that the keywords they were searching for (e.g. on Google or Yahoo) will automatically be substituted into the search box of your toolbar. It will take a single click on the toolbar to search using your toolbar for the same keywords.
Rival Search:
The rival search plug-in provides additional left-aligned IE panel when the user does a search in the web. This panel can display alternative search result¡¯s (for example produced by your search engine) search engine.
Tabbed Search:
The plug-in inserts search box and button to launch the tabbed search. If user starts searching a row of tabs will be opened: each tab is different search option, e.g. search for music, search for images, search for video and etc. So you can specify as many tabs as you want and each one will execute its own specific search using keywords from only search box.
Dynamic Configuration Files:
You can put the configuration .XML file within the toolbar distribution, or you can also put it on your web sever achieving truly dynamic toolbar behavior. By editing a single text (XML) file on your web server, you can completely change the look and operation of the toolbar without the need for your customers to upgrade the toolbar.
External Toolbar Javascript Interface:
The Toolbar has an external program interface. You can access toolbar properties (to read or write) via JavaScript and also pass this information to the server in response to the user clicking a button or menu item in the toolbar. Properties available from JavaScript include current version of the toolbar, Unique Toolbar ID, User ID that you can set/read, user name and user password primary aimed to implement authentication through the toolbar, toolbar settings and configuration. The current URL and current domain that the user has open in their browser are also accessible.
View Toolbar JS Interface & Samples
Toolbar Scripting:
It opens a window into a world of new opportunities. In our recent version you can script the toolbar using JavaScript. You can also access the HTML currently being viewed from the toolbar via JavaScript. This way you can implement keyword matching, content analysis or ranking mechanisms into your toolbar. Your customers will be amazed by new features that you can make available to them.
Ping Plug-In:
This plug-in is similar to New! all-nettools Ping Plug-In:, but now you are pinging the host from the local machine using the standard Windows ¡®ping.exe¡¯.
Checkboxes and Radio Button:
You can add checkboxes and radio buttons on your toolbar if you want to enable your users to toggle some options.
Mini Web Page:
You can put a mini web page on your toolbar. This opens the door to unlimited toolbar content. Using this you can put notifications, banners, animations and sounds into your toolbar. You can put a page directly on a toolbar (BANNER feature) or as a minipage that opens up when the user clicks a button in a toolbar (BUBBLE feature).
Zoom In / Out feature:
By making this feature a part of the toolbar your users will be able to adjust the size of the pages they are browsing using the buttons on the toolbar.
Launch External Applications:
It is possible to run an external application from a button or menu item in the toolbar. You can run system commands, open Notepad to edit a file. You can even distribute .EXE applications with the toolbar and launch them, passing the keywords or URLs into command line.
Edit and password boxes:
You can put edit and password boxes on your toolbar.
Clear Cookies / Clear History:
The Toolbar can clear cookies and cache of the browser thus allowing your users to maintain their privacy. You can associate this feature to any menu item or button in your toolbar.
Accessibility of Site:
Using this feature you can easily check availability of specified domain name.
Screenshot of current page - Web Save plugin:
Save Internet pages as an image in .jpg graphic format or as a Web-archive.
Empty Browser Autocomplete:
Clears browser Autofill information for HTML forms and all passwords.
URL Shortcuts:
You can create shortcuts to favorite sites so instead of typing the complete website url just create small easy shortcut which you can type in the address bar and hit enter to quickly open the site. Will definitely be used by your customers.
WHOIS Service:
This useful plug-in adds the button or submenu to the toolbar which provides all the available information about an IP address, hostname or domain, including country, state or province, city, name of the network provider, administrator and technical support contact information by just one-mouse clicking. This plug-in is based on the www.all-nettools.com service.
Autofill Plug-In:
AutoFill is one-click web form filler. After easy Autofill plug-in configuration it implements the Autofill button to the toolbar using which you can automatically fill out any web forms. Enter your information and it¡¯s stored securely on your own computer. Clicking the AutoFill button will automatically complete a form.
Plug-in Interface:
The major distinction of ToolbarStudio v.2.17 is specially developed Plug-in interface. Toolbar plug-ins is a pack of additional services which will enlarge toolbar functionality. Now you need not to do programming or scripting to implement popular advanced features, just choose plug-in in the menu of the ToolbarStudio and configure it!
Custom Ping:
This feature allows ping any host, that specified in searchbox or current domain.
Clock Plug-In:
This plug-in adds nice clock showing the time at the specified place in the toolbar.
W3C CSS / Markup Validation:
This one will add a service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards for currently visited site..
W3C CSS Validation plug-in checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations for currently visited site.
Up One Level:
When your mouse cursor hovers over an English word on a web page, Word Translator shows you that word's translation in your preferred language. You can enable WordTranslator and set your language in Toolbar Options.
Mp3 Player Plug-In:
Add real MP3 player to your toolbar. When you insert the plug-in via ToolbarStudio you can
specify playlist with remote or local songs:
•local mp3 files will be packed into the CAB directly and distributed with it;
•remote mp3 files will be downloaded from your website just when playing.
Login Manager Plug-In:
Save your login accounts (e-mails, sites,forums,etc.) in one list and enter your sites automatically by one click.
E-mail Checker:
Check and access all of your email accounts automatically. Notifies you when you have new mail.
Tell a Friend:
Using command "mailto" create a mail with predefined caption and text with some substitutions.
Automatic Toolbar Upgrade:
For convenience, Advanced package Toolbar is automatically upgradeable! This means that all installed versions of your toolbar will be updated automatically from your site when a new version appears.
Automatic Installation:
Once downloaded the toolbar gets installed automatically and is integrated into the user's browser.
Uninstall feature:
The advanced package has an "Uninstall" feature included that allows your users to uninstall the toolbar simply by clicking an "Uninstall " link in the menu.
Distribute Additional Files with Your Toolbar:
You can distribute static HTML pages, Music, Flash and even executable programs (.EXE) with your toolbar. Integrate your .EXE with the toolbar and provide extensive functionality to toolbar users.
Don't Limit your creativity:
Do you need SMS, quotes, currency converter or a translation feature in your toolbar? We have scripts which can do all of the above.
If you are unsure how to achieve something please contact us at support@besttoolbars.net
No Limits at all:
If you are unsure whether the feature you are looking for is supported. Please ask our sales@besttoolbars.net. Get a Source Code for our toolbar and implement this yourself. What if you need specific feature? Please ask our development department to implement it for you. Based on your specifications we will provide a free estimation for the development. Our rate for custom software development is $20USD per hour.
News Ticker Integration:
If you want to keep your users informed and achieve higher interaction level you can put a scrolling news ticker or flashing news notifications on the toolbar. You can implement server side scripts to feed news to customers of your toolbar.
Dynamic Menu Content:
Menus and submenus can be created from the output of server side scripts (like PHP, Perl CGI or ASP). This could be your "Top 10 items", "hot list", "more search results" and so on.
You can specify what buttons the toolbar will have and what menu contents to show based on either the current URL opened in the browser or unique TOOLBAR ID.
TOOLBAR ID can be used to individualize appearance and features to your toolbar customers. You can also have multiple toolbar configurations for a single toolbar, one for logged in users and another for those who is not logged in.
Alerts:
Plugin "Alert" allows you to send instant messages to all users of your toolbar at once.
To make it work all you need is:
•put an HTML file on your server where you will keep current alert message. The file should be accessable via HTTP.
E.g. URL to it may be: http://yoursite.com/tbalert/alert.html.
•insert plugin "Alert" via ToolbarStudio into your toolbar and in plugin's wizard point the Source URL to the HTML alert page.
That's all! The plugin starts to work after you finish the plugin's wizard. Toolbar periodically reads the alert page from your server and shows it only if changed. So if you want to show some alert to the users -- just edit the alert page and toolbar will do all left work for you.
Weather On-Line:
Shows local weather as an image and temperature in F or C in real-time mode.
RSS Reader Plug-In:
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. RSS Reader plug-in allows easy implement RSS formatted news line to the toolbar. Don¡¯t leave your customers without latest news in the world!
Catcher for Explorer Address Bar:
With our ToolbarStudio you can use the advantages of built-in address bar and DNS catcher. You can configure that if the user of the toolbar mistypes an URL he will be redirected to YOUR page instead of standard explorer DNS error and Error 404 pages. You can also configure the toolbar so that whenever the user enters a word into Explorer address bar he gets redirected to your page.
Search Feed Integrator:
Use this plug-in in your toolbar to show feeds when user searches something using search or edit box in the toolbar. The plug-in allows you to insert feeds of one of existent well known search engines (allfeeds, loore, etc.).
Earn Money Feature:
When you sign up to Google's AdSense service, select AdSense for Search as type of the AdSense account. In the HTML code which Google will give you there is a code like this "AWFID:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" and here XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the desired ID.
Branding:
Brand your custom toolbar with your own logo. Let your customers know that you are just one click away!
Buttons, Images and Banners:
You can have unlimited number of buttons/banners on your toolbar. Each button can have a menu that pop-ups when the button is clicked. Alternatively clicking on a button can take your users to a predefined web page.
Easy Customization:
All customization is made from a simple XML file. You can add your logo, custom links, your search, buttons, banners, scrolling text, live news feeds, etc. See our download section for a handy XML customization tool (free).
Menu Add/Remove Button:
A special menu item that enables button showing or hiding.
XP Look and Feel:
Our toolbar now supports XP themes, so when installed on an XP machine it has a complete XP look and feel.
My Favorite Links:
The menu for each button can be customized by the user on the server.
Custom Toolbar Skin:
You can set a custom skin (background) for your toolbar. You can also set Internet Explorer's skin too! It works as simple as: installing the toolbar (automatically), then Internet Explorer's skin automatically changes to your corporate background. You can choose any picture for your toolbar's skin.
Multilingual Support:
You can easily manage different languages from the configuration file. When you add a new language to the configuration file, users will be able to select it from the menu. This feature is provided by free services, such as: FreeTranslation.com & Babelfish.altavista.com
Multiple Configurations:
Several configuration files can be used for the toolbar. This allows you to create several different appearances for your users or have several versions of toolbar in different languages.
Client Side Toolbar Preferences:
Each user can set personal preferences for their own toolbar:
- Buttons they wish to have on the toolbar
- Auto Complete
- Keep a search history in a drop-down list under the search box
- Run search drag automatically
- Update toolbar automatically, etc.
Hot Icons / Rollover Effect:
You can add animated icons to menu items, menu groups and buttons. Make your toolbar look more fancy!
Additional Visual Elements for Your Toolbar:
With the ToolbarStudio you can add select-style combo boxes to your toolbar, add static texts and buttons with custom graphics. Menu elements can have custom styles including the color for menu background, color for menu texts you can also specify colors used for highlighting of menu items. In case the toolbar do not fit fully on the desktop your customer will still be able to access the functionality of buttons and menu items (clicking on a double arrow button and selecting the appropriate element from the pop-up menu).
Popup-blocker:
Destroys unwanted pop-up and pop-under ads. Add this feature to your toolbar and your users will never see annoying pop-ups while surfing the web. One more advantage for your toolbar users! Popup blocker can be configured to count the number of blocked popups and play a sound/change the cursor shape when popup window is blocked.
Web Filter:
Advanced filtering blocks sites that disguise their true identity. This allows to filter webpages and block adult content by setting/changing a password.
Panic Button:
Hide all IE windows in one-click or using hotkey. Hotkey can be configured.
Anti-Ads Plug-In:
Anti-Ads plug-in will block banners, ad-links, ad-images, etc. This plug-in adds nice clock showing the time at the specified place in the toolbar.
Popup-blocker Manager:
You can now decide from which sites you want pop-up ads to be presented to your users.
Watch URL:
Toolbar can trigger actions based on the current URL being visited using the Watch URL feature. The toolbar can prompt a messenger alert, open the left panel, or launch a pop-up window when a specific URL is visited.
Site Ranking:
Display the importance of the page you viewing.
Site Info:
Enables users to learn about Web sites, including traffic information, contact info, etc.
Related Links:
Helps your users surf more efficiently by providing related links for each page.
Catcher DNS Error:
With our toolbar builder you can use the advantages of a built-in address bar and DNS catcher. You can configure it so that if a user mistypes a URL they will be redirected to YOUR page instead of the standard Internet Explorer DNS error page.
Set User Homepage:
You may add the following line to the SETTINGS section of the basis.XML file and the default homepage of the user will be set to the one you had defined : <HOMEPAGE href="www.yoursite.com"/>
Site Activation:
The plug-in makes you sure that your toolbar will be shown always on some "special" sites. Even if a user has hidden it: as soon as he goes to some "special" URL (e.g. your site), the toolbar is automatically shown.
ToolbarStudio Visual Interface:
ToolbarStudio has simple and logical interface and have context help always visible in the bottom-right corner.
ToolbarStudio Wizard:
Use a wizard like interface to create a toolbar in six easy steps. Wizard includes the most popular controls available in ToolbarStudio. The wizard will guide you through the steps of choosing which options to add, provide captions and icons for them, and build a toolbar setup ready for installation.
Exe Installer:
Create .exe installer for your toolbar. ToolbarStudio removes all the installed files and the cached files and also cleans the registry.
Cab Web/ActiveX Installer:
Once you are ready to publish your created toolbar on the web, you can create .exe installer or web ActiveX installer for your toolbar. These two options are available in the Tools menu of the ToolbarStudio.
Automatic Updates Publishing:
There's no need to check for new versions of Toolbar. Updates are installed automatically, so you'll always have the latest and greatest version.
