— Google Docs now has a “research” tool that lets you search the web without leaving the program. And you can add footnotes. To try it out, click “tools” in Google and
choose “research.”
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Google Maps now come indoor as well as outdoor. You can get a map that’s the floor plan for an airport, a mall, or retail store. The maps come in on any Android phone or tablet. Just keep zooming till you get there.
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Google “Latitude” and Apple’s “Find My Friends” are two free apps that help you, well, find your friends. “Find My Friends” works only with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, but Google’s “Latitude” works with anything. Still, if you really want to know what’s going on, you might want a tracking device, like “PocketFinder.”
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One of our favorite Windows commands is “Cntrl-C,” the “copy” command. This allows you to copy any text or pictures you highlighted with the mouse. A new program called “ClickTo” makes this even more powerful — and it’s free. Using the copy command, either from the keyboard or a menu selection, will give you a whole lot of choices of where to paste what you copied. Choose the “Google” icon, and the info goes into the search box at Google.com. Choose Facebook or Twitter and your item automatically becomes a post. You can also choose to move the copied item to Microsoft Word, Excel, Gmail, Evernote, Google Translate and a dozen others.
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Running out of things to worry about? Hisz.rsoe.hu is a Hungarian site that maps a lot of things going on in the world, disaster-wise. If there’s trouble, they want you to know about it. A world map has lots of points you can check. (They don’t do political problems.)
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This month we’re going to a horse farm somewhere in Maryland. Google Maps listed the location only as coordinates, with no other details. But soon we will be able to clarify its location by adding new information through “Google Map Maker.” Map Maker lets you suggest changes at maps.google.com. A review committee looks over the suggestions, and if they accept them, the changes go in for all to see. Some examples suggested by people at Google: You might know a short cut on a college campus, a good bike trail, a good place for wild flowers, a camping site and so on. The rest of the world had this feature before the U.S. because there were so many unmapped areas. […]
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There’s a new gold rush. But it’s not for gold, it’s for data. Get your hands on the right data and you can build an important new website. Recently- available U.S. government data has resulted in these sites and apps…
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Put your own business on a Google map. To do this, go to google.com/local/add.
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