The puzzles can be emailed to friend or relative and played without additional software. The Look-Up Center has telephone numbers by name, by address and reverse. Weather, stock quotes, dictionaries, quotations, package tracking, calories, currency conversion, maps, metric conversions, books, music, and more. For street addresses in the U.S. and U.K., and for some overseas cities, GlobeXplorer provides MapQuest maps matched to aircraft and satellite images. Paying customers get fresh, high resolution images.
Visitors access an older database of lower resolution photos.
The match of map to image is excellent and you can customize your selection with either an HTML or fast JAVA viewer, both with zoom and pan controls. Most of us treat our computers like televisions. We buy them, use them constantly, and are outraged when then they finally break. That's OK for TVs, which have no user-serviceable parts anyway. But computers, like cars, need regular maintenance.