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: Fly The Earth On The Internet!
TRICK#2: This Will Put Words In Your Mouth!
GREAT PLACE #1: Twenty Five Top Real Estate Cybertools!
GREAT PLACE #2: Here's An Economic Free Lunch!

TRICK#1: Fly The Earth On The Internet!
http://earth.google.com/
Now you can have the world built right into your computer! Those folks from Google have done it again with an exciting "fly over" program that allows you to point and zoom to anyplace on earth that you want to travel to. Your rocket ship takes off and at a dizzying speed flies you there while you watch the terrain whiz by below.

Once you arrive at your destination, satellite images and local facts zoom into view. You can use Google search from your destination image to show a myriad of points of interest including hotels, restaurants, hospitals, shopping and airports.

There is no registration or cost involved. Just get your engines revved and take off!

TRICK#2: This Will Put Words In Your Mouth!
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Looking for the right word but it won't come quickly to mind? Written communication can be very influential in both your business and personal life. This great place provides a new, unique and intuitive alternative to the old fashioned thesaurus. You can visualize the relationship between words and initiate an Internet search from any word leading to either web pages or images.

The interesting presentation at this site will help you to understand the relationships between words and meanings. In addition to synonyms, you can view 16 kinds of semantic relationships. For example, you can see that a nose is part of a face-- and many even more exotic word relationships.

On top of being useful this place is fun!

While there make maps, check recent sales prices, check mortgage rates in your area, see your house from space and get your techie questions answered -- just to name a few of the 25 tools. (Actually there are 30 but they keep adding and 25 has a nice ring to it!)

There is no cost to use this valuable tool center!

GREAT PLACE #2: Here's An Economic Free Lunch!
http://www.economy.com/freelunch/
How would you free access to over 100,000 economic, financial, and demographic data sources -- all arranged so you can use this data for business intelligence -- or even to help your child get a big A+ on a school paper?

Rather than wander aimlessly in the desert of economic information looking for just the right facts, just pop over to this great place where you will find 14 categories of statistics including Real Estate, Demographics, and Consumer Spending to name a few. Need information on housing starts, sales, or the housing price index -- you got it!

You can get to the data you need with a direct internal search tool and you won't go broke getting all this great information -- it's yours without any cost!

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