Web Tools--Clocks and Calendars Cool Site of the Day: timeanddate.com
Many shareware clock programs allow you to easily check the time at various locations around the World. However, if for one or more reasons (don't like shareware, unable to download on your computer, bandwith, etc.) you cannot or do not want to use these programs timeanddate.com gives you access to a robust and completely "web-based" clock and calendar resource (free). Options Include:
*The World Clock. A single HTML page with the current time for hundreds of cities throughout the world. It can be sorted using several criteria.
*The "Personal" World Clock, also customizable (up to 16 locations). HTML and Java versions are available.
*A Meeting Planner.
*A "Fixed Time World Clock"
*Daylight Savings Time Info
*A Customizable Calendar.
Web Search--Google Google Gets "Tabbed"
Google has introduced a new interface with "tabs" to 4 of Google's databases (Web Search, Image Search, Google Groups, and Web Directory). They allow you to move from one database to another quickly and directly. For example, conduct a search in the Google Web database, then click the "Images" tab to run the same search strategy in Google's image database.
Web Search--Scirus Elsevier's Scirus Science Engine Adds U.S. Patent Office Content
Elsevier, the developer of the Scirus engine has enhanced the database with a few new tools. Let's hope for better results than earlier versions provided. Enhancements include a link to run the search in the US Patent Office database (1976-Present), the option to have results sorted by date, and four more subject areas to search for information on � psychology, language and linguistics, law and sociology. Scirus also provides options to search for science-related conferences and abstracts. Finally, the �more like this� tool has now been set up to provide narrower and more focused results. More on the "enhanced Scirus after we have some time to give it a workout. Direct to Scirus See Also: Peter Jacso's June, 2001 review of Scirus Remember: Searching the US patent database via its native interface directly from the USPTO site offers coverage back to 1790 and hundreds of searching options.
Intellectual Property--United States "Congress Likely To Defer Database Protection To 2002"
Source: Newsbytes
From the article, "The high-tech industry's denizens agree that intellectual property protection for databases is a must-have item, but Congress more than likely will file away the issue until early next year, according to House committee sources. Before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, staff had been in discussions to reconcile two visions of database protection legislation, but both sides on the issue agree that the waning weeks of the congressional session are unlikely to produce an accord."
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