anterloperless
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The Best Reasearch Tool
Mod's feel free to move, if not the right area for this.......
Ok FOXFIRE web browser has plug-in the will cut your research time on the net in half.
This plug-in (cooliris) allows you to highlight then right-click any word on any page giving you the choice of searching it on
Thefreedictionary, Google Images, Wikipedia, Google Search
Each one opens in a different window.
Check out this link for a 60 sec video.
Cooliris Preview
This keeps me from wasting my time....
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Well.. urm.. it isn't Foxfire, it's Firefox 
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First of all, it's 'research'. Not 'reasearch'.
Second of all, if you know any keyboard shortcuts whatsoever, it looks like it would save maybe a second or two. Know what a toolbar favorite is?
Third of all, Dashboard on Mac OSX can do the same thing and much much more as well. Word.
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Ozone
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SciFinder and Web of Knowledge coupled with endnote. Awesome combination. Too bad our University can only afford a 5 seat for SciFinder (it is
rediculously expensive); if 5 people are logged in (out of about 30,000) you are screwed.
my two cents,
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A quality software connversion tool is what I use most often.....
I love the Merck Index....I put it on every machine I work on or own. The nicest thing is that with a basic textbook and the MI - I can begin to
develop questions wherein the answers provide the hobby.
However another software tool that I am really finding fun is ChemOffice. THAT is a fine piece of work! I rip the formulas from merck and cut &
paste to ChemOffice to work out elementry stuff that I find interesting.
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olmpiad
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Sciencemadness itself has this nifty little thing people refer to as "the search engine", honestly, I find that quite useful! 
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Waffles
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| Quote: | Originally posted by olmpiad
Sciencemadness itself has this nifty little thing people refer to as "the search engine", honestly, I find that quite useful! |
I agree in theory. But SM will not find you the LD50, density, polarity, etc etc lots of the most basic information on a simple compound.
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Linux v. Mac v. MS
I like the options IBM style machines give me. The last decent OS for them was Win 3.x and have been exploring Linux. Just removed Linux and put XP
back on the experiment machine. Linux runs better than any MS OS but I couldn't get to where I felt like I was 'behind' it checking the system roots.
Still, I want to make the change soon. MS is so bloody inefficient and invasive. All the "do you realy want to do this?" stuff drives me batty.
Then there are the file systems '' when you set up your own file systems you still are stuck with theirs so all the information is duplicated all over
the place. Still, I'm headed to all Linux by 2008 provided the software I need is supported or reasonably copied. The Linux office stuff seems
pretty neat.
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chemrox
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Merck d/l (warez version)
I can't find a post I saw here with a warez d/l for the merck. Does anyone know the whereabouts of the post? Did I dream it?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ozone
SciFinder and Web of Knowledge coupled with endnote. Awesome combination. Too bad our University can only afford a 5 seat for SciFinder (it is
rediculously expensive); if 5 people are logged in (out of about 30,000) you are screwed.
my two cents,
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Bureaucrats cut us off from Beilstein, more often than not I prefer it over SciFinder for reaction search.
[Edited on 22-2-2007 by Sandmeyer]
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uncompromisedfreedom
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First of all, it's 'research'. Not 'reasearch'.
Second of all, if you know any keyboard shortcuts whatsoever, it looks like it would save maybe a second or two. Know what a toolbar favorite is?
Third of all, Dashboard on Mac OSX can do the same thing and much much more as well. Word.
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Wow, a helpful link and venom pours forth.
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