Jan 20 2009
Reference Links
Some good reference sources available online that the author uses.
- Wikipedia
- Dictionary.com
- Thesaurus.com
- AskAWord.com
- The World Factbook (CIA library)
- About.com
- Google Translate
- Jango.com
- FoxyTunes Planet
- WebMd
- Dimension Conversion
- Worldwide Weather (including historical trends)
- World Time
- Chemistry (especially MSDS sheets)
- Vehicle Information
- Investments
as well as Google Images and Google Maps.
The author recommends Google for email, documents, calendar and other features. Firefox seems to work best as a general use browser.
Google Notebook set as a full page within Firefox makes for a very flexible scratch pad.