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: READ ANY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD!
TRICK#2: SHERLOCK HOLMES YOUR E-MAIL!
GREAT PLACE #1: PSST - HERE'S A TIP!
GREAT PLACE #2: SPECIAL SEARCH HEAVEN

TRICK#1: READ ANY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD!
http://www.newspaperlinks.com/
Heading off to Toowoomba? Want to check the latest news before you fly out? Here's the place to get that done in a flash!

The Newspaper Association of America, a nonprofit organization representing nearly 90 percent of the daily circulation in the United States and a wide range of Canadian and International papers, has created the ultimate "newspaper portal," a comprehensive gateway to a very high percentage of newspaper web sites around the world. This neat place even provides links to college newspapers and newspaper archives!

Anytime you want information about a local community, this is a good place to start. You can do some fancy information gathering by bringing up only the newspaper section you want such as sports, business, classifieds, auctions or events. The worldwide coverage and ease of use make this a surefire "Favorites" candidate!

P.S. Toowoomba is known as the "Garden City". It is located in Queensland, Australia. They have a very informative newspaper there called "The Chronicle". (We knew you'd want to know that!)

TRICK#2: SHERLOCK HOLMES YOUR E-MAIL!
http://www.msgtag.com/
http://www.readnotify.com/
Sherlock Holmes couldn't do better detective work than this! Want to be alerted the moment an email you've sent is opened? With this interesting new software you'll get a report showing when your message was sent, when it was viewed, and the elapsed time in between. In addition there are no annoying pop-up windows asking the recipient to send a notification back to you - it all happens automatically! Interestingly, this is a simple program to use and you don't have to change anything about the way you write or send your email. In fact you'll hardly even know it's there.

About a year ago we reviewed a similar program that offers a slightly different approach and provides even more information. For example: How long your message was open and read; A map showing where the recipient is located; How many times it was re-opened and re-read; If it was forwarded -- where it was forwarded to, and sometimes who subsequently reads it, how many times and for how long!

Both of these Sherlock Holmes e-mail services offer a free trial version and, of course, an upgrade version for a mere pittance!

These folks operate this great place on the same philosophy as traditional tips that have been passed down from generation to generation. The site contains simple well organized access to tips in a wide variety of topics such as: Car care, Household, Getting organized, Garden, Kitchen, Cleaning, Health, Laundry, Pest, Pets, Sewing and Mending plus lots of other interesting and useful categories.

So here's the tip ---- check out this tip place!

GREAT PLACE #2: SPECIAL SEARCH HEAVEN
http://www.zip.langenberg.com/
This has to be the Swiss Army Knife of all search engine collections! Not that it will topple Google, but if you want super directed searches and lots of choices you should try this great place!

The range of specialized search categories is wide and useful. Among many others you will find: Phone (reverse, reverse address, etc), Reference (Translation, Encyclopedia, etc), Geographic (Zip codes, etc), Search (Every way of searching you can imagine, including News Groups).

While there enter your worst enemy's name or e-mail address in a News group search. The archive of these thousands of groups covers every topic known to man and goes back several years! You may find some weird messages there from your foe - or at least get some insight into why he is so nasty!

This great place is worth a visit! We'll bet you bookmark it!

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