Archive of Tricks & Places


John M Peckham III


Jack Peckham ( ) is the Executive Director of the Real Estate CyberSpace Society, based in Boston, MA.

TRICK#1: PERSONAL WORLD TIME CHECKER!
TRICK#2: PROTECT YOUR GOOD NAME!
GREAT PLACE #1: TAKE YOUR PROBLEM TO THE TOP!
GREAT PLACE #2: DECODE THOSE ACRONYMS!

TRICK#1: PERSONAL WORLD TIME CHECKER!
http://www.timeanddate.com/
Used to be you had to cough up a pretty penny for software that would give you this kind of personalized time information! These nice folks provide this comprehensive world time information free!

The Personal World Clock allows you to select up to 16 cities or places of special interest, so you can have them all displayed on one page. Your selected cities pop up, next to your home city, with the current time in each of them every time you visit this neat site!

Just send a shortcut to your desktop and you can check your Personal World Clock with a mouse click!

There are lots of other neat time tools here at your beck and call. Time is usually money--but here its free!

TRICK#2: PROTECT YOUR GOOD NAME!
http://www.nameprotect.com/
Is your business name, domain name or product name really all yours? Have a trademark in mind? Here is the place to find out if others might take umbrage with your name!. Try out this free online trademark search to uncover potential conflicts with US and Canadian registered trademarks.

These folks help entrepreneurs; businesses and intellectual property professionals establish, protect and monitor their business identity online. They go to the wall to give you the tools you need to be sure that your business name, domain names, product names and other valuable brands you develop will be unique and secure in the new online economy.

Just type in the words you want to check and get a quick free screening search report. If that report warrants further investigation. These folks will take care of that too for a modest fee.

Simply fill out a simple form and enter your problem or question. This great place has all the top contacts right in their system and will speed your message off to where you will get a response!

GREAT PLACE #2: DECODE THOSE ACRONYMS!
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
If your head is a swirl of letters these days, help is on its way! ARM, FHLMC, REO, ISP, SMPT, POP, FDIC, UPS, OPEC. We live in a world of acronyms! The Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than 172,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, the military plus many other assorted abbreviations.

These folks make it easy. Just enter the jumble of letters, click and up pops the translation --PDQ. It's Q&D!

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