this is a model of the introduction page you get when you click on the Space Patrol logo on the real thing.
SPACE PATROL POWER CONSOLE for FIREFOX

Turn FIREFOX 2 into a killer cyberSpace Patrol cruiser

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In 1953 "Space Patrol" was the watchword for a poweful 30th Century police force in the scientific utopia that was the civilization of the United Plaets of the Solar System. They prowled the space-lanes in powerful rocketships equipped with the hottest tech in the known universe in this wildly popular, with both children and adults, television show of the same name. It was this program that made Ed Kemmer;1921-2004 (Buzz Corry) The Astounkding B Monster's #1 All Time Spaceman, ahead of Kirk, Picard and the rest.

In the Early 21st centruy, "Space Patrol" means a powerful resource that turns FIREFOX into a mighty cyberspace patrol cruiser that packs the wallop of Commander Buzz Corry's TERRA V Space Patrol flagship cruiser. Three major sections turn FIREFOX into a powerful general purpose console, math and science console and lookup console second to none. Just how good is it? Well, everything that was used to build it can be found with it - And much, much more. Whether it's languages, search, business, web resources or math and science, you have more power to get the job done than with any other single application. You can

  1. Use the Search Mill Task Console to run Full Bandwidth searches: Decide on the topic, call up an engine or a list of engines related to that topic, select the engine of your choice and run the search.
  2. Lookup resources for phone, mail and timezone as well as general lookup
  3. Use the calculator that is on the main console or select the very robust math and science console that offers you the number cruncing power of an array of applications. You get a choice of 6 calculators, one being augmented for mathematics and science, one being augmented for geomtric, trig, hyperbola, graphing and equations operation, the third just being good for every kind of calculation, the fourth is a windows caluclator-style calculator as part of a business calculations package, the fifth is a 3-calulatro screen with the calculator from the front console, the windows sytle calculator and the EniG basic unit, and #6 is a heavy duty online one. Calculate, compute, convert, solve equations, Look up Tables, graph and do functions. The Resources page features the best sites for additional material. Just as the "real" Space Patrol got kids interested in science, which brings with it engineering and math, and becuase these areas have many thing to do, we lean heavily there: Very heavily!
  4. Call up an Urban Legends console for matters of science, medicine, UFO's and all the rest. DON'T BE SUCKED IN.
  5. Get major world news, travel, weather, music, sports and TV info
  6. Do financial calculations with our business calculators section
  7. Web resources: Hosting, networks, javascript, free software, etc.
  8. A choice of language tools
  9. Explore an omniverse of worlds:
    • From next door to the farthest reaches of space.
    • From the very earliest civilizations to the stallar empires of the far future
    • From the mundanely common to the most wildly exotic
    • From the hardest fact to the furthest-out fantasy
      it's all there; whether you're an astronaut, cybernaut, chrononaut, infonaut or psychonaut.
  10. The space Patrol Power Console is expandable, augmentable, customizable and upgradable/updatable/debug-able and comes with the tools and supplies to do the job. and access to a service department.
This all started some 5 years ago because I was not happy with the standard Windows calculator. the keypad names were too poor in contrast for me to read. I am also not really happy with the FireFox calculator; it really does not look like a calculator. I was so very successful at finding replacements for that calc it wasn't funny; enough so to start me collectiong virtual calculators and other scripts, I even found virtual Texas Instrments calculators, including my long dead and beloved SR-50 and my next project is a virtual "fantasy" 1970's slide rule calulator dubbed the ZENTR-X 51HyperAdvanced.

Teamed up with GUtil and some of the other functional Add-ons and a properly stocked Bookmarks Toolbar, the Space Patrol Power Console turns FIREFOX into a powerful toolkit. It can replace the Calculator and brings added functionality in over a dozen categories and some 35 sub-categories with over 100 functions and activities. which is what makes it a "power console" and why the typical dropdown menu just won't do. Use a meta-search engine for the default search bar engine and you're unstoppable.

Who benefits from the Space Patrol Power Console? Count 'em

  1. anyone who uses a besic screen calculator; why not get one with a bit more going for it?
  2. Anyone who needs to use an online almanac or encyclopedia
  3. Anyone looking for a good sci-fi "trip"
  4. Anyoe planning a real trip
  5. Anyone wishing to stay in touch with:
    • Music
    • News
    • Weather
    • Sports
    • TV
    • Logins: Ebay, Yahoo! msn, Flickr, Amazon, Netflix, IMDb, YouTube and like that
  6. Anyone looking up a phone number or rates
  7. Anyone who could use three cualculators at once
  8. Anyone wishing to send a package
  9. Anyone who plans on building a website or using the internet in some way
  10. Chemists and Chemistry Students
  11. Engineers and Engineering Students
  12. Surveyors and Real Estate persons
  13. Anyone considering buying stocks, taking out a loane or other financial calculations
  14. Mathematicians and students
  15. Phyisicists and Physics students
  16. Those looking for
    • Games
    • Pinball
    • Hobbies
    • Crafts
    • Hardcore Retro
  17. Electronic Techs
  18. Anyone who needs a good calculator quickly or needs to do fractions, percentages and proportions, which is most everyone at one time or other; especially modelmakers
  19. Anyone who uses a slide rule for mathematics
  20. Educators and students of all kinds
  21. Writers and persons who need to translate things
  22. History buffs
  23. Anyone who needs to sort numerical, alphabetical or alphannumerical data
  24. Anyone who needs to find out what is an urban legend
  25. Anyone who wants to do a thorough search for which Google would only be a starting point and needs topic-defined search engines or references
  26. Anyone who sends Ecards, Enotes or the like
  27. Anyone who wants a homepage that is great right out of the box and can be enhanced, expanded and customized to one's liking: WITH the materials to do it. In short: YOU!
Perhaps the easier question would be "who wouldn't benefit form the Space Patrol Power Console?" AND it was designed for Real People. You don't need a 200+ IQ or a Ph D to use it, although being a little nuts helps a lot. In fact Brian the Brain wouldn't need all this math power as he'd know it all: On the other hand, dummies like you and I need all the math help we can get.

DESIGN PARADIGM: Part of what makes the power console easy to operate is the "design paradigm". It is derived from video game theory, the operational sections are mostly limited to one screen, or, with rare exceptions, if there is any scrolling, it is minimal. This makes sub-operations easy to locate and use. You go from the main console to the detail work in discrete steps, called "successive approximations", "binary search" or "whittling down"; each getting closer to the specific one you want or need, sometimes just one and sometimes 3 or 4. Instructional and infomrational, or other text material is kpet below the recommended maximum of 5 screensful on one page


HOW TO USE THIS CONSOLE

It is very simple:

  1. FIRST. this dispaly works best in a full screen mode. Stock FireFox does not have a real full screen mode and ome of the sub-sections do not support the F11 full screen key. so, go HERE. Get and install the FULL SCREEN, FULLER SCREEN enhancement and FULL SCREEN toolbar button and all will be well.
  2. After you decide on what you want. call up the main console
  3. Locate and "press" the Topic Button
  4. The Main Console will chage to either a sub-console or a Task Console.
  5. When you get to the Task Console just select the specific task that you want to do
  6. Follow the instructions, input the data or whatever is needed to get the result
That's it.

The Space Patrol Power Console is a derivative of one of the "webtoys" from my websites. While I did not write the specific tasks, I do have them to do with as I please as long as it is not a commercial ventrure. As a "free open source" project Firefox qualifies under thsoe licensing agreements and all copyright rules apply. I left each scrpt substantially intact as the author's request so they can be located and given due credit. By using this software, you implicitly agree to the licensing terms, mostly not making it part of a commercial enterprise since it is intended for private use only, not as part of a sold bundle.

SCREENSHOT OF MAIN CONSOLE

THE ONLY TIME THIS CONSOLE QUITS IS WHEN YOU DO!
In fact, does this do anything for your?
TRY IT; YOU'LL LIKE IT.

To Get and use it:

  1. Create a folder spconsole
  2. open the link below and save the zip file to that folder.
  3. Go in and unzip thefile
  4. Open the page 000starthere.html
  5. Make it your FireFox Home page
  6. You're DONE
  7. To get the "users' manual" click on the Space Patrol Logo at the top of the "console"

SPCONSOLE-HM.ZIP: GET IT NOW