My favorite is to use the Linux specific starting point for Google: http://www.google.com/linux That way all searches are LInux specific. Another tip is the Google book available on BookShare.Org. Lots of fun stuff in there. John Heim writes: > I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in sharing googling tips. For > instance, when I'm trying to use a tool I've never used before, I google > for "tutorial OR howto <whatever>". > > For example, this weekend, I was trying to figure out rsync, so I googled > for "tutorial OR howto rsync". Note that the "OR" is in capitals. That > tells google to use it as a logical operator rather than as a search term. > So google will look for documents with either 'tutorial' or 'howto' and the > word 'rsync'. > > But I'm thinking other people might have little tricks they use to find > stuff on google. > > Actually, another great tip is just to use google. I always google before > asking a question here. First of all, it saves time for the readers of this > list. But secondly, you often get more complete answers via google. People > have taken the time to document a lot of these things because of google. In > other words, people create docs so that other people can find them with > google. Naturally, those documents tend to be more complete than what > someone would type in in response to an email question. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
