I saw and article recommending a couple information software programs.
My previous laptop crashed and I lost the program and can't remember
it's name.

It was sort of like an information provider. When you opened it, it
would show the top news for the day and important events that had
occurred that day in history.

Famous People's names were clickable as well as places and historical
information. You'd click these and it would take you to a definition
of the topic.

The other distiguinshing feature was that it had a retractable
floating tool bar that sat at the lower right of the screen and I
think it had an arrow on it  that you'd click and a search space would
open where you could type a topic name.

It was free to try but about $40 to buy. Anyone using it or remember
the name o f it?

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Clarification of Question by techzec-ga on 17 Jun 2004 04:53 PDT

It is a standalone program, I think it connects to the web without the
help of another browser so I guess it has some has some browser
capabilities but it's not solely a browser and it's not 'Copernicus'
the search engine program.

By the way, it wasn't websearch4u as noted in the comment.

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Clarification of Question by techzec-ga on 17 Jun 2004 11:28 PDT

A list of these type of programs would be helpful in my finnding it. I
guess it's a research or information tool. Thanks.

i think it is websearch4u

Your question just reminded of a little utility that I used to use
that sounds identical to what you're describing. I loved it, and
totally forgot about it until now. I had forgotten the name, but just
searching the web now I think I've found it. It's called "Gurunet".
See:

http://www.gurunet.com/what_tools.jsp

Don't know if this is the one that you are looking for or not.

Yes, I just installed this GuruNet utility, and it matches your
description *exactly* -- the retractable roolbar in the corner with
the arrow and everything. So I'm sure this must be it.

In case you're talking about a few years ago when you had this tool,
note that it used to be called "Atomica", which is what I knew it as.
[I knew GuruNet didn't sound familiar, and I only noticed this because
when it was installing, some of the files still have Atomica in their
names, which instantly jogged my memory when I saw this].

That's it!!!! Thank you!

How do I get you paid and close this question? I'll check the options
but if you know, post it as a comment.