Toolbar Features

Search Box

The heart of the theopenworld.com Toolbar. Use it to do a Google search from anywhere on the web. Just enter your search terms in the text box, then hit Enter on your keyboard or click "Search". Recent searches appear in the drop-down menu below the search box.

Alternative Ways to Search

Amazon.co.uk: You can easily search Amazon.co.uk with the toolbar. As shown above, just enter your search terms in the text box, click on the arrow just to right of "Search" and drop-down list will appear. Choose Amazon UK and your search results will appear instantly.

News & Images: Takes you directly to Google News, which culls information from thousands of news sources worldwide and automatically presents the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously, so you see new stories each time you visit. This same concept applys to searching Google Images. As shown above, just enter your search terms in the text box, click on the arrow just to right of "Search" and drop-down list will appear. Choose Google News or Images, and your search results will appear instantly.

iTunes: Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you, you can search the iTunes Music Store directly from our toolbar. If you don't have iTunes installed, you will be redirected to the official iTunes download site. If you already have iTunes installed and you query it, using our toolbar, iTunes will automatically open for you and display your search results.

Kelkoo.co.uk: Kelkoo is a Yahoo! company that can quickly and easily find out what's hot and what's not in the world of shopping. It will tell you the price from masses of stores, whatever your searching for, you can always get the best price.

Search Site: Search for information just within the pages of the website you're visiting. Enter your search terms in the text box and click "Search Site" from the drop down menu. Google returns results just from that website (e.g., CNN.com) instead of the entire web.

Dictionary: Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition—America's best-selling desk dictionary—and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.

Wikipedia (Encyclopaedia): Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia written collaboratively by its readers. The site is a wiki, meaning that anyone, including you, can edit almost any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears at the top of the page.

Search Site: Search for information just within the pages of the website you're visiting. Enter your search terms in the text box and click "Search Site." Google returns results just from that website (e.g., CNN.com) instead of the entire web.

Stocks & Shares: Easily check on stocks and shares, just enter either the company name, or stock symbol and Yahoo! Finance will do the rest.

Weather: Just enter the place(s) you want to check the weather on, and Yahoo! Weather will present you with a weather forecast for the next five days.

Pop-up Blocker

The pop-up blocker prevents most pop-up ads from being displayed by your browser. The button icon changes to reflect whether the pop-up blocker is active or if a pop-up has been prevented from launching. To activate the pop-up blocker, click on where it says "Disabled" and click "Enable Pop-up Blocker". To allow pop-ups to launch on a one time basis without turning off the pop-up blocker, press where it say's "Blocked" and from the drop down menu choose either "Temporaily allow pop-ups from this site" or "Always allow pop-ups on this site". To turn off the pop-up blocker without removing it from the Toolbar, simply click on the icon in the Toolbar itself and click the option "Enable pop-up blocker". The pop-up blocker icon will then read "Disabled".

E-mail Notifier

Our toolbar can notify you on new e-mails on all Hotmail, Gmail, POP3 and Yahoo! accounts, and you can have more than one listed. Once set-up (easy we promise!) the software will display how many new messages are waiting to be read (as demonstrated above). It will even sign you into your e-mail account on either Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, or if your a POP3 user (Outlook / Outlook Express / Thunderbird etc.) it will open your default e-mail client so you can read them.

RSS Messages

You can easily be kept up-to-date with theopenworld.com thanks to RSS (Really Simple Syndication). The toolbar will download our RSS feed, so you can be informed of updates from us.

Your Local Weather

You can easily check the weather today, and for the next three with our simple weather updates feature. It will inform you of the outside temperature and weather conditions. Once the toolbar is installed, just click on "Weather", type in your local area and the weather information is set permanently, so every time you start you computer you know what to expect outside!

Pull Down Menu

Click the arrow just to the right of the "theopenworld.com" logo on the left side of the Toolbar to display a menu of handy links, including pointers to toolbar options, other services, and help. Check out the complete list for a description of all the items you can access from this menu.