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John and all, I went to the address below http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/archive/ pac.html Clicked on one of the: "Webcasts for the Professional and Researcher" And was rewarded with .2 KB of an inaccessible download What kind of software is required to access these offerings - or are they not MAC compatible? On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:15 AM, John Cottingham wrote: > This version should be easier to read with wordwrap on. > > I have been extremely busy on the Parkinsn Online website adding > information > of interest to subscribers to Parkinsn and the general public at > large. We > are extremely sucessful since the rollout of the Parkinsn message > archives. > > Internationally, we have tripled the number of average visitors daily, > with > more than a 1/3 to the message archives, 1/3 to the medical articles > and > abstracts and information that is useful to the Parkinson's family, > young > and old. > > Our daily email messages would previously attract about 50 viewers a > day and > now that number is 300 and another 700 to the archive messages. > > The number of pages accessed by message archive viewers is about 2 > which is > amazing since they are coming as the result of searches from Google, > Yahoo > and MSN and AOLSearch. They are actually reading the rest of the > threads > from our postings. > > The ability of PIENO to index other sites puts power in the hands of > those > who use the PIENO search box on the over 100,000 pages of information > on PIENO. > > The PIENO search engine has fully indexed: > > PIENO of course > The Parkinson Alliance > DBS-STN Organization > The Unity Walk > Michael J Fox Foundation > APDA Partially > National Parkinson Foundation > Parkinson Disease Foundation > Northwest Parkinson's Foundation > WeMove > MD Virtual University > Essential Tremor Organization > Parkinsons Action Network > Parkinson Society (Canada) > Parkinson Disease Society (UK) > National Library of Medicine > Pfizer Family of Medicine Websites > GlaxoSmithKline Pharma > and several sites that contain PD abstracts > > When you enter a word or words in a PIENO search box, All of these > quality > site indexes are searched if you have All Parkinsons Organizations > selected. > Click on All Parkinsons Organizations and a drop down list will appear > to > select a particular target rather than all. > > The Google and PIENO boxes on the website work the same way. If you > see a > word or phrase (two or more words one after the other), highlight them > with > your mouse, holding the left mouse button down as you move the cursor > left > to right until all of the word or words is highlighted. Release the > mouse > button, put the cursor over the highlighted word or phrase and hold > the left > mouse button down while you drag it to the keywords box on the search > boxes. > When your cursor is over the keywords box, release the left mouse > button. > The word or words will appear just as if you had typed them. Click on > the > search key and voila! > > Search tips > > Every sentence must have a subject. Search engine search return the > most > relative choices if you use that truism. If you are searching on the > topic > of drooling, put parkinson as the first word and drooling as the > second word. > > The PIENO search box can match ALL which means both words have to be > on the > page or ANY which would give you pages that have either word. > > Phrases are words that have to come in the same order that you type > them. > Enclose a phrase in quotes like "essential tremor". If you don't > enclose the > terms in quotes, the search box action will be governed by whether ALL > or > ANY is selected before you click on the search key. > > "resting tremor" dyskinesia as keywords would find either "resting > tremor" > or dyskinesia on a page if ANY was the match selected. > > If you would like your search terms highlighted on the pages you look > at, > Click the link that is labeled View with Keywords Highlighted in text > instead of clicking on the title of the page on the search results > page. > > Conclusion > > Last but not least, Look again at the Parkinson Answer Page at: > > http://parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/archive/ > pac.html > or if this line wraps, http://tinyurl.com/46kfp > > In June of last year, the XVIth congress of the european society for > stereotactic neurosurgery was held in Vienna. The presentations > webcasts are > archived for the professional and researcher. You can see what > advances have > been made in treating conditions including but not limited to > Parkinson's. > Professor Benibid chaired the conference. For those on broadband the > high > quality version will do quite nicely but those on dialup connections, > select > the other option. The presentations require the Windows Media Player. > > Until next time, cheers. > > John Cottingham > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn