To sign up for the weekly emails about upcoming used book sales, go to the top of the page, and click on the link “sign up for our free sale mail.” One has to provide an email address, current city, current state, current zip code and indicate how many miles he or she is willing to travel to a book sale. Ongoing book sales are listed here too.
http://www.booksalefinder.com/
–Jack Batterson
I thought this website was just doing your own home repairs around home. But the website also provides information on buying/selling a house, doing your own automotive repairs and your own financial affairs. There are how-articles, videos, chat forms along with a section that helps one get a contractor within 24 hours. There is even a place where one can do online shopping.
–Jack Batterson
This is a great way to learn and keep up with new technology. It offers a daily email list that shares new cool websites with subscribers.
–Jack Batterson
Planning a road trip?
For national traffic and road closure information, go to http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/index.htm
For scenic byways throughout the nation, go to http://www.byways.org/explore/ For traffic and road closure information in Missouri, go to http://maps.modot.mo.gov/travelerinformation/
For local traffic and road closure information, go to the site for Missouri and click on the link for “Get local MoDOT Info” in the left column. Click on the central region of the map for Columbia and Jefferson City.
Have a safe and fun road trip.
–Jack Batterson
Livemocha is the world’s largest language learning community with over 5 million members!
It offers free online courses with courses in 36 different languages, with more than 160 hours of lessons for each language, with helpful tips from native speakers, and with a focus on conversational skills.
–Jack Batterson
Google Tip:
To see the time in many cities around the world, type in “time” and the name of the city.”
Example: Time London
–Jack Batterson
Google Tip
“To use our built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and we’ll provide your answer directly on the results page.
Google cannot guarantee the accuracy of the exchange rates used by the calculator. You should confirm current rates before making any transactions that could be affected by changes in the exchange rates. Foreign currency rates provided by Citibank N.A.”
Example: 300 euro in USD
–Jack Batterson
While searching online for a map that would show the boundaries of Columbia’s Wards, I was pleased to find what I needed on MU Libraries’ Government Documents Page. Check out the website http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/collections/documents/mo/col-boone.htm for links to lots of interesting information about Columbia and Boone County. The categories of links are: demographics, financial reports, elections & voter information, property information, maps and law enforcement.
Jack Batterson
Google is used so often to find information, so I thought it would be useful to share some Google tips over the next few weeks from the Google help page:
“To see flight status for arriving and departing U.S. flights, type in the name of the airline and the flight number into the search box. You can also see delays at a specific airport by typing in the name of the city or three-letter airport code followed by the word “airport”.
Example: Type “stl airport” to see if arrivals and departures are on time.
–Jack Batterson
I learned about a useful website for weather information from reading the Feb. 17, 2010, issue of “American Libraries Direct.” The site is located at http://www.wunderground.com/auto/wxmap/.
As stated in the “American Libraries Direct” issue, the “site gives you a full screen Google Maps display and overlays it with current weather reports from the over 16,000 personal weather stations that report data to the service.”
After you type in your location, there are links to the “Detailed Forecast” and the “Weather Underground” on the lower left side. Click on those links to find a wealth of weather-related information for your location. For example, there are 161 NOAA weather radios available.
Jack Batterson