I know people around the world, but I also need to know when they're awake or when their markets open and so on. There are a thousand uses for Google -- and I'm sure LifeHacker has listed all of these at some point -- but here are few you may have forgotten.
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1. As a currency converter
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2. As a dictionary
(This one also works with foreign phrases.)
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3. As an image search, or face identifier
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4. As a world clock, to find local time anywhere
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5. As a weather forecaster
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6. As a measure converter
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7. As a calculator
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More helpful google 'assist' sites:
Simply Google - lets you do anything from one page.
Google Basics - the simplest starting point.
Google Guide - an interactive guide to Google's capabilties, features, and services.
Google Maps Mania - a blog that covers all the cool new Google Maps mashups, tools and applications being created by people all over the world.
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Thanks for the Dana Blankenhorn link. I was unaware he had a site, and that piece is particularly informative. Dissecting how Madoff made off with everyone's cash will be the subject of many documentaries. And yet the SEC was told on several occassions that Madoff's numbers were obviously fixed (he was reporting more profit from trades on any given day than the entire volume in the market for that same day!). His won't be the last Ponzi scheme we see, but maybe it's time to start handing out life sentences to these Wall Street crooks just to send a message that wiping out people's, endowments, charities, and others' wealth is lower than my shoe.