KallOut is a simple, and useful Windows program, that can help you do quick functions. It would highlight text in many programs (like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and Notepad) it puts a small icon next to the highlighted words, which looks like as shown in the image .

When you hover your mouse over that icon, it gives you a menu to look up the selected text in many popular services like Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, eBay and many more.

Amazingly it has a BestGuess feature, which empowers KallOut to even analyze the content you’ve selected and suggests the most relevant places to search for that phrase. So, if you’ve selected an address, it will suggest Google Maps, Google Street View, and Microsoft Visual Earth. If you selected the name of a famous person, it will suggest their Wikipedia entry. This way, you don’t have to browse through the whole menu of services to find the one you want.

Once you select which site to look up your phrase on, it opens up a floating information palette with your results adjacent to the original content, as shown.

This floating window stays on top of the original window so you can continue working on your original task while referring to the results that KallOut returned.

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