The blinkx toolbar

When blinkx is running, the blinkx toolbar is displayed in the top right hand corner of your active window.

Whenever you open a new window, or scroll an open window, the toolbar automatically finds information that is relevant to the content of this active window. You can also highlight a section of text in your active window to search for results that are relevant to this bit of text.



If you don't highlight any text in the active window, the blinkx toolbar searches for results that are related to the entire content of your active window.

Click on:

To display:

the blinkx search box

related documents on your hard drive, for example:

 

a Word file

a PDF file

a PowerPoint file

an Excel file

a JPEG image

an email contact

an MP3 audio file

an email

an email attachment (indicated by a paperclip)

related news articles

related web pages

related products

related video clips

related web logs




Note that whenever you switch to a new window on your screen, the toolbar turns dark blue to indicate that it is searching. Once it finds results the the toolbar's icons on become colored. The toolbar only searches for web pages if you move your mouse towards it.