Dogpile Toolbar 5

The main appeal of this toolbar is the ticker that it comes with. Whenever a page is loading (which can take absurdly long amounts of time with my poor internet connection), my eyes always drift to the ticker to catch up on the latest news. You can receive headlines from ABC.com, SearchSpy and Fox News. Each headline is a link that leads to the article, so if you see something that catches your attention you just click on it and read the full story. You can customize the ticker in several ways: the speed (slow, medium or fast), the direction (vertical or horizontal), and the size (small, medium or large). The toolbar also comes equipped with a pop-up blocker, which is the easiest blocker I've ever used. It blocks all sites, but if you want to open a link, you just click it and it will open, or open it while simultaneously pressing ctrl. The blocker automatically records the sites that you want to accept, so whenever you return you don't have to keep using ctrl. There is a wide selection of buttons to choose from to add to the toolbar, such as weather, horoscope, e-mail, dictionary, thesaurus, acronym finder, yellow pages, maps, stocks and a highlight button. It's very flexible and easy to adjust, which makes it a brilliant toolbar.