You can double-click panes to change frame heights.
This is useful to concentrate on either the accepted or rejected
URLs.;
Clicking the "pencil and keypad" icon gives you access
to many more customization options.;
You can double-click folders, titles, dates and file sizes to change sort order.
Click again to reverse the sort from ascending to descending.;
You can use 'and' && 'or' in searches. InfoJukebox will split the searches,
duplicating the necessary terms as it calls the various engines. For example,
if your search is: -- cat or dog -- then each engine will be searched twice, once for cat and once
for dog. Of course, since InfoJukebox is best at showing close proximity of two search terms,
this example doesn't show off its true power. But try this:
(Kennedy or Clinton) and (sex or scandal).;
InfoJukebox scans for combinations of terms within a
logical thought. So, unlike other search engines, starting a search term with a + or -
doesn't mean 'must have term on page' or 'can't have term on page'. Instead it means
'must have term in thought' or 'can't have term in thought'. You can ALSO require or exclude
terms on a page -- for this, use * and /. As an example, the search string:
(wonder or miracle or marvel) science /religion -- will yield only citations including the word 'science'
plus one of the 3 terms wonder, miracle, or marvel -- but not from any page that refers to religion.;
If you're having trouble accessing any particular search engine, you can remove it from
the list of engines, even while a search is running. Just click the "pencil and keypad"
icon to get to the Search Strategy control, then highlight the engine you want to exclude.
This can speed up "All" searches when one or two busy search engines are delaying progress.;
You can use the Filter feature to help narrow down the list of citations to
those you want to investigate further. For instance, filter on some word which
appears frequently (perhaps unexpectedly) but which doesn't apply to your interest.
Then click the 'Check all' icon, then the 'Delete checked items' icon. Now click the
Unfilter icon to recover the remaining citations.;
To increase the speed with which you scan through search engines, you can
choose the 'Faster' option (instead of the default, 'More Context' option).
This speeds things up by moving on to the next page when a reasonable sized
citation is found, instead of continuing to read the page looking for a more
inclusive thought. To get to the 'Faster' selector, click the "pencil and keypad"
icon to get to the Search Strategy control.;
It's easy to move a URL from one panel to another. Just hold the left mouse button down while
you drag it from the accepted to the rejected frame, or vice versa. For instance, you may decide
that a URL that IJ has rejected is actually interesting, and you want to include it along with the
others for exporting to Excel or emailing. Just drag it into the Accepted frame!;
That little round "radio button" to the right of the search terms box can be very handy? It lets you pick which panel you're working with, for check/uncheck and delete operations. Choose either
panel, or both.;
The Play List pop-up window and the Play List "punch-up" tab look like they do the same thing, but there's one difference. Punching-up a selection clears the current list and loads the saved
list. Using the Play List pop-up window loads the selected Play List on top of whatever's already
listed. This way you can combine two saved Play Lists, then save the combined list under a new name.;
It's fun to watch InfoJukebox scroll automatically to each new hit as it finds them, but when you're reading through the list this can be an annoyance. To shut this feature off, just double click the search terms box to get to the Customization panel, and uncheck the
"Auto-scroll to new hits" checkbox.;
If the "Detect Compounds" checkbox is checked, InfoJukebox will do some amateur sleuthing before it starts its search. It will try to determine whether two successive words should be enclosed in quote marks (treating them as a phrase). For instance, if you enter -- dog photo album -- into the search box, InfoJukebox decides that "photo album" is best treated as a phrase. It does this by comparing the ratio of hits as a phrase to hits as individual words. If you use quote marks yourself (or any other advanced features, like + or -), InfoJukebox skips this step, whether or not the Detect Compounds box is checked.;