Computer Info – August 25, 2004

 

This Week’s Meeting

            John Watkins will be the host for this week’s meeting.  His subject will be SILLY QUESTIONS.  So bring your questions to share.

            Hope everyone survived the hurricane and didn’t sustain too much damage.  We were lucky ones – we lost our electricity and only had minor branches down to clean up.  The hurricane hit on Friday the 13th  and we left early on Sunday the 15th to take our trip to Seattle.  That meant that we did not have to struggle with out air conditioning.  John and Terry were not so lucky.  They had damage to their home and therefore did not make the trip to Seattle with us.

 

 

Google Help

Calculator

            Google can be your calculator.  Just place a standard mathematical expression in the search field and press Enter.

            Examples ----   720/56 <enter>

                                    1200 * 56  <enter>

                                    1234 + 120 – 240  <enter>

Convert Measurements

            Google also lets you convert measurements.  Type in something like this ----

                        100 meters in feet  <enter>

                        2345 acres in square feet  <enter>

                        45 yards in inches  <enter>

 

Search only one type of domain extension

            Let Google narrow your field of search by only searching certain types of domains.

                        Taxes: .gov  <enter>  (This is taxes followed by a colon – then a space – then a period

                                                             followed by the extension for the type of websites that you

                                                             would like to search)

Search for items by zipcode

            Google lets you search for something by entering the zipcode and then the type of item that you are searching for.

                        32713 +boats