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  Part Reference Search Services
 
I've made a handful of little services that help you look up information about a selected part by name or number from nearly any application. Bricklink, the LDraw parts tracker, Lugnet partsref, and Peeron part searches are supported. Each database (...) (17 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) Wow, that is some handy tool. Pitty I do not have a Mac. Wouldn't it be great if this feature would be available for Windows? (or Linux :-) (17 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) Does this also work on a Windows PC? mikeheide (17 years ago, 9-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) Is this also available for PC user? Sounds great, I want to give it a try. mikeheide (17 years ago, 12-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) Services are an integrated part of Mac OS X that aren't present on other OSes (except NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, which aren't available any more). They make it fairly easy to do what Jim did here. While similar functionality could probably be (...) (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) Sorry I didn't respond sooner, Mike. Anyway, Travis is right. It's especially easy to make services out of simple little scripts with a utility called ThiService ((URL) what it's worth, the scripts are extremely trivial - they simply open the (...) (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) search for sets instead of (or in addition to) parts. I had part identification in mind when I wrote the services, but I suppose similar set searches would be useful for collectors, too. Jim (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
 
  Re: Part Reference Search Services
 
(...) Thanks a lot for your answers. But you are right. In Windows System it is not easy to do something like this. But I will think of it. mikeheide (17 years ago, 14-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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