Enjoy
Google Secrets You Need To See (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTwUaLUH7s#ws)
There are some other rather more useful ones people often don't notice
"compare [food] [food]"
will do a calorie comparison
typing in maths will do the sums
typing "5 inches in mm" will do the conversion (and there are lots of others it handles)
Also ask google maps for Mordor and then "hit "more info"
Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 14, 2014, 12:24:31 PM
There are some other rather more useful ones people often don't notice
"compare [food] [food]"
will do a calorie comparison
typing in maths will do the sums
typing "5 inches in mm" will do the conversion (and there are lots of others it handles)
Also ask google maps for Mordor and then "hit "more info"
Agree that there are many useful ones especially math conversions and exchange rates. Bet most people have never looked ! Thought this light hearted approached one might draw peoples attention to the more useful.
There was a version of 'Word' which, if you typed in "I'd like to see Bill Gates Dead" and checked it in the Thesaurus, it would return: "I'll drink to that"
And an early version of Excel had a 'flight simulator' hidden, which you could access from a set of keystrokes
Just did the "barrel roll" thing -Very cool.
The Atari Game I grew up with was called "Arkanoid", never seen that other name for it before.
In 1998 there were better if not many equal search engines around. Google wants too much personal info off you these days. Shame they can't bring back Windows XP though.
...nonetheless, how many posts on any forum do you see asking about simple things. 90% of the time it takes less to open google and type in the basic words than it does to find and open a forum and ask the question.