November 2003, Real Estate Cybertips

Archive of Tricks & Places

John M Peckham III

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

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Real Estate Cybertips:
November 2003

TRICK#1: Find Anyone's Birthday
TRICK#2: Sixteen Best-ever Freeware Utilities
GREAT PLACE #1: Ugly Stuff in Your Neighborhood
GREAT PLACE #2: How Many People Share Your Name?

CYBER MAGIC TRICKS

TRICK#1: Find Anyone's Birthday
http://www.anybirthday.com/
Want to surprise a long lost friend, business associate or distant relative with a birthday card -- or shock the old geezer who has been hiding his birth date for decades? This great trick will get you the information you want in a millisecond - complete with day, month and year.

Just enter the first and last name and zip code (partial zip code works fine). The zip code need not be where your suspect was born. It can be where he or she now lives. If you use an abbreviated zip code the on line birthday search will pick up all with in that area and provide you with birthdays and middle initials for all that match. For example: Donald Trump, zip 10xxx. Shazam: June 14, 1946. (Ivana is there too!)

You can be a hero too! If your spouse or friend wants to be removed from the database simply go to the privacy section which accommodates this. They will owe you big time.

TRICK#2: Sixteen Best-ever Freeware Utilities
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_16_free_utilities.htm
These smart folks have evaluated all the utility freeware (available without any cost or hitches) and published their "16 Best Ever" list. And it's a great list. Everything from an Anti Virus software to an Anonymous Surfing Service to a free Spam Filter. With a Pop Up stopper, Resource Meter, "Web Site Ripper" and lots more thrown in for good measure.

What's neat about these "one trick ponies" is that they often accomplish their task easier and quicker that the big well known programs.

And of course the price is right.

GREAT PLACES

GREAT PLACE #1: Ugly Stuff in Your Neighborhood
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/commsearch.htm
"Not in my neighborhood" you say. Pollution, hazardous waste sites and other ugly stuff may not be apparent as you drive through your neighborhood, but check this interesting site. Just toss in your zip code and up comes a list that would make Batman shiver in his cape.

Created and maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency, this warehouse of grungy information must be pretty authoritative! The reports come up with excruciatingly complete detail including the address of the miscreants.

Scary stuff.

GREAT PLACE #2: How Many People Share Your Name?
http://www.namestatistics.com/
Ever wonder how many people share your first or last name? This little site answers the question!

If you are female and your first name is Madison, for example, there are 3824 others who share your name. On the other hand if you are a male named John you share your name with 4,006,974 other Johns. On the other side of the coin if your last name is John you only share that moniker with 24,999 others.

Fun place.

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