In today's global society, we need tools to communicate with the rest of the world. In order to succeed, you need to learn about geography, history, culture and economy for the region you are interacting with.
PlexGlobe includes:
WORLD CLOCK PlexGlobe comes with world clock (with day light saving support) that allows you to view current time for any part of the world. User can select location either by geography or by time zone. User can set any number of cities or time zones for which PlexGlobe will show current time.
WORLD CALENDAR PlexGlobe supports a number of calendars such as Gregorian, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Islamic and Buddhist. These calendars also show local holidays.
STOP WATCH It allows users to time user's events.
METRIC CONVERSION This allows user to convert length, area, volume, mass and temperature from imperial and metric units.
DATE CALCULATER Date calculator provides a number of calendar and date conversion facilities such as conversion between Gregorian and Julian dates. It allows conversion of dates between Gregorian, Islamic, Hebrew, Japanese and Buddhist calendars. It allows date and time calculation by adding or subtracting days, weeks, months and years. In addition it calculates time differences between time zones.
NTP BASED ATOMIC CLOCK PlexGlobe allows users to connect to external NTP servers and retrieves correct time. User can then update local system time if needed.
APPOINTMENTS PlexGlobe allows users to specify appointments and reminds users ahead of time. User can also configure recurrent events.
STOCK PORTFOLIO AND TICKER PlexGlobe allows users to manage their stock portfolio and displays ticker containing current stock prices for user's stocks. In addition, it gathers basic information about stocks.
PEOPLE SEARCH PlexGlobe provides three different way to search people. First, it allows users to search people from private or public LDAP servers. Second, it allows users to search people in Yahoo's database. Third, it allows users to search people who have posted Usenet article in Usenet archives.
SUN/MOON POSITIONS PlexGlobe allows user to find sun or moon position for any day on any part of the world. Also, user can find direction between any two cities or calculate shadow at any time of the day.
PRAYERS FOR MUSLIMS For Muslim users, PlexGlobe allows user to calculate prayer timings and play adhan for every salaat. User can configure salaat timings based on a number of supported jurisdictions. In addition, users can find direction of Qibla or Kaaba from any part of the world. PlexGlobe provides direction based on North and Magnetic compass.
COUNTRY INFORMATION PlexGlobe allows users to lookup country information in Library of Congress or CIA Fact Book.
WEATHER INFORMATION PlexGlobe allows users to find weather information for most major cities of the world.
CURRENCY CONVERSION PlexGlobe allows users to find real-time currency conversion rates from the Internet.
FLIGHT TIME AND DISTANCE PlexGlobe allows users to find flight time and distance between any airports of the world.
TRANSLATION PlexGlobe supports a facility to translate text between following languages: English Chinese French German Italian Japanese Korean Spanish Portuguese Pig Latin ROT13
For more information visit http://www.plexobject.com/software/plexglobe