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Friday, February 20, 2009

Find Systematic reviews, Clinical Study Category & Medical Genetics Searching updated for Firefox & IE #PubMed Toolbar

Today I improved the Find Systematic reviews, Clinical Study Category & Medical Genetics Searching options in the PubMed toolbar. In some rare cases it turned back an error in Firefox. This is now solved.
Please have a look and let me know what you think.
http://pubmed.ourtoolbar.com
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

PubMed Toolbar Screencast: Part 1

This first part of the PubMed Toolbar Screencast by DIGICMB explains the many options users have to adjust the Toolbar Settings to their own liking.
Some options are:
  • shrink/unshrink toolbar. This leaves only the icons with mouse-over text and saves space
  • add gadgets (widgets): for business or pleasure
  • clear your search history
  • The Toolbar Options has 4 tabs with loads of settings:
  • Personal Components: email notifyer, privacy, weather, radio(podcasts)
  • Predefined Components: here you can choose which items of the toolbar you want to toggle on/off. If you do not like the News Ticker, just de-select it here.
  • Useful Components: Add your own apps buttons on the Toolbar for fast access: All Microsoft Office apps, Paint, MSN, Registry editor etc
  • Additional Settings: Very useful to set the functionality of the search box for search history, text selection, serch database preference etc.



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Thursday, February 5, 2009

One Overview, All NLM News

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Currently the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Toolbar contains 14 RSS feeds of NLM Services and/or Divisions.
They can be read in one overview from the drop-down News Button and scanned very easily.
Without having to click th button, you can see how many unread items there are. The Toolbar keeps up with your reading, offers a refresh and delete option as well.

Furthermore you can listen - via the Toolbar RADIO to the podcasts of the
Podcast MedlinePlus: NLM Director's Comments
and to the NIH Podcasts.
Please let me know if you think something is missing out there.


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Monday, February 2, 2009

PubMed Search & News Widget

OK, I think Toolbars are great for quick easy access to search databases, free or licensed databases. Users can use this jumpstart search to get to their preferred search engines direct from their browser window.

But not everybody is allowed to install browser plugins or add-ons.

To distribute the Toolbar functionality like the search & news options, I create derived widgets that can be used as a whole in many social networks, websites and intranet sites, everywhere where it is allowed to put up html.



The PubMed Search & News Widget is the latest one. I just got confirmation from Widgetbox that they approved it.
"Derived" in this case, means, the widget is using the PubMed Toolbar installed custom searches and the installed rss-feed of PubMed New & Noteworthy.
pubmed Search & News widget