From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([70.84.142.212]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Fdr6c-000736-00 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 12:00:06 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k4AG01Ag012291 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 16:00:01 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4AG01Ga012290 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 10 May 2006 12:00:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:00:01 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: googling tips? Message-ID: <20060510160001.GA6166@rednote.net> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20060504084117.01a8d630@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20060504084117.01a8d630@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5spksmp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:00:06 -0000 My favorite is to use the Linux specific starting point for Google: http://www.google.com/linux That way all searches are LInux specific. Another tip is the Google book available on BookShare.Org. Lots of fun stuff in there. John Heim writes: > I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in sharing googling tips. For > instance, when I'm trying to use a tool I've never used before, I google > for "tutorial OR howto ". > > For example, this weekend, I was trying to figure out rsync, so I googled > for "tutorial OR howto rsync". Note that the "OR" is in capitals. That > tells google to use it as a logical operator rather than as a search term. > So google will look for documents with either 'tutorial' or 'howto' and the > word 'rsync'. > > But I'm thinking other people might have little tricks they use to find > stuff on google. > > Actually, another great tip is just to use google. I always google before > asking a question here. First of all, it saves time for the readers of this > list. But secondly, you often get more complete answers via google. People > have taken the time to document a lot of these things because of google. In > other words, people create docs so that other people can find them with > google. Naturally, those documents tend to be more complete than what > someone would type in in response to an email question. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org