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[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

Yeah, I've been using Google scholar for a while. I still have to
flip over to my university library connection to get full-text on
stuff, but the searching is terrific.
An unscientific sampling tells me that mapquest gives better
directions but google maps are prettier (and the satellite imagery is
fun). And news alerts can be very useful...


On Jul 28, at 2:08 PM, J R FOX wrote:


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From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 


And isn't there a routine in there for


customary-metric conversions...





I don't think so. We have one for
Fahrenheit-Celsius-Kelvin; easy enough to add
others.



Hi Carl,

I'm sure you New Yorkers would give me an argument on
this, but I'd guess a metrics converter has to be more
*regularly* useful than that X-Streets frame. (Though
it certainly made for a neat U2 demo.)



But, in terms of versatility and scope of
coverage, you can't beat the Google calculator.
Just plug your conversion query into any Google
search window, in the form
[number] [from_units] in [to_units]



Thanks for the tip. (And I'll return the favor,
below.) The only problem with that is what happens
when your 'Net connectivity goes out, and you'd like
to look something up . . . as it used to do here
fairly often prior to my service upgrade, and still
does occasionally on one box for unrelated reasons ?
One great and unexpected feature of CTRL-ALT-Delete
Commander, which I have in the OS/2 boot partitions on
the tower desktop, is that it has a really neat
converter module built in. Converts from just about
any measure you might care about to any other that may
be applicable. This is a semi-hidden feature I never
knew about for the first few years I had this program
installed. It left me wondering if there might be any
equivalent utilty for Win-32, preferably freeware, but
I haven't looked into this.

Google is amazingly inventive and far-reaching. It
runs a lot deeper and in many more directions than
most people realize. It has a number of specialized
pages and sub-services you wouldn't ordinarily get to
see, unless you knew of them.
These include strictly *local* pages for wherever you
are, the Froogle price-search engine, and others. A
majority of these are collectively accessible from a
beta-portal they are developing, which has a nifty
Mac-style interface. Check it out at

 http://hostingproject.info/Zilos/googlex/

(This tip is actually courtesy of a local radio show.)


Jordan