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Product/Link: Atomica

Synopsis: Search multiple information sources simultaneously by clicking on a word on your screen.

Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000. And like they all say..."Macintosh version coming soon."

Price: Free for individual users.

Rating: One of the few really useful free downloads.

Comment:

Downloading and installing the free 970KB Atomica software will cause an icon to be placed in your system tray. 

The icon: atomicicon.jpg - 697 Bytes

The icon in system tray: toolbaratomica.jpg - 4451 Bytes

With that accomplished you may now search multiple sources to find relevant information about any word on your computer screen. Perhaps you're using a word but you're not sure of the correct spelling. Hold down the "Alt" key on your keyboard and click on the word in question. Atomica will open a window confirming your spelling or displaying the correct spelling. (This is assuming your spelling is close to correct).

For example if I misspell "relevant" as "relavant" and then click on the misspelling I get the following window...

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How about this? Let's block out George W. Bush with our mouse and then click on it...

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Other possibilities include:

Clicking on a URL address and bringing up Google links.

Clicking on a stock symbol and bringing up quotes, charts, news & links.

Clicking on the name of a state and bringing up The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.


I suspect we've only scratched the surface of what Atomica can do. You might want to check it out for yourself.

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