AUGMENTING THE SPACE PATROL POWER CONSOLE

The Space Patrol Power Console is a powerful tool, But, as I said elsewhere, It doesn't have it all; to put all that could be found in here would make it impractical. As it is, it's over 1MB. Therefore, think of it as a starting point rather than a self-contained item. If you notice, some of the keys lead to search pages to do some of the functions. This is for good reasons

  • The "Here Today; Gone Tommorrow" Rule: Any site can go out at any time. If these are calcuations sites then you would be out of luck if I linked to them exclusively. Therefore, if yuo have a search page of similar sites then you can find a replacement if such there is.
  • The "So Many Sites; So Littl Time" Rule: When I built this, I used search pages to find things I would need. well, sometimes a search page would have so much good stuff that if I tried to get it all this would be an impractical item so I just used the search page. Two examples of this are distribution tables for statistics and graphing programs.
  • The Schultz Rule: "I know nothing": Sometimes I just don't fully understand what I'm doing in a certain subject matter, like calculus. So I just put a reference term in the searchbar and see what comes up and use that. Why should someone who knows the territory be limited by someone who doesn't? Now this presents you with an opportunity. You can use outboard modules to strengthen the functionality of this console. You do this when you find a site you would like to have for your own
    1. Bookmark it
    2. When you save it, do either of the following
    3. Save it to a special folder in your "favorites" for these sites
    4. Save it to a Bookmarks toolbar (the FireFox Smart Bookmarks Bar is what you want for this)
    5. Over time you can build up quite a reservoir of these links
    In a way, since you might use some categories more than others and augment them more than the ones you don't use that much, you will customize this set of links to your needs and wants so that it will partially customize the power console. If you use the toolbar approach, you can have them at the same time ready or running while you have the console uo and running.

    Another source of outboard augmentation is the MORE Option.