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: YOUR EMERGENCY E-MAIL NETWORK
TRICK#2: HOW FAST IS MY CONNECTION?
GREAT PLACE #1: SHARE YOUR HUGE FILES EASILY!
GREAT PLACE #2: GREAT INSTANT TECH HELP-- FREE

TRICK#1: YOUR EMERGENCY E-MAIL NETWORK
http://www.emergencyemail.org/
Quite often a service on the Internet comes along that provides highly useful, even potentially life-saving information. These good folks have a mission (in their own words) to: "Provide notification to citizens of local, regional, national and international emergencies utilizing the Internet and electronic mail (email) in a secure and expedient manner".

To get this free service started, you do a quick one time custom setup choosing from a variety of areas of concern such as utility outages, severe weather, changes in daily weather and other menu categories. Then these folks will notify by E-mail, pager or cell phone (whatever manner you select).

Neat free service that could provide critical and timely information!

TRICK#2: HOW FAST IS MY CONNECTION?
http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/speedtest500.asp
Ever wonder how well your Internet connection is doing at any particular time? Did school let out and slow your cable modem connection to a crawl? Getting cranky because you can't figure out what's going on?

With one click to this handy spot you will get an instant reading showing the on-line speed at which you are really operating at any given moment. In addition to the speed measurement, this site provides you with lots of additional information regarding your connection, including a gauge that helps you compare your current connectivity performance with all the various methods of connecting to the web

Put a shortcut on your desktop and you are never more that a click away from seeing how you are doing in Cyberspace!

This handy site allows you to upload up to a 75 MB file, or several files totaling that size. You then send the folks you want to receive the file a pre-prepared message (allowing for your customization). When your intended recipients receive your message, they simply click a link in the message and the file downloads to them.

Neat little problem solver -- and it's free!

GREAT PLACE #2: GREAT INSTANT TECH HELP-- FREE
http://www.pcshowandtell.com/
These talented folks bring you thousands of show and tell slide shows that teach you in less than one minute how to maximize your favorite software and web sites! They have over 20,000 one-minute instant help shows, covering more than 100 software applications. Their mini shows walk you through how to perform hundreds of tasks in programs such as Internet Explorer, Outlook, Eudora, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ICQ, Quicken, Real Player and much more.

If you don't want to call tech support or bother your Techie friend, when you run into a problem at midnight, you can be sure they don't want to deal with it either! These folks welcome your visit any time, day or night.

You can find hundreds of helpful mini shows there free and for a minuscule annual charge you can access their entire cavalcade!

Real Estate CyberTips are provided with compliments of the Real Estate Cyberspace Society.