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Irving (of Irving’s Info Page) sent me these links: These three links may be of interest…..for U and family and/or your readers: www.citytowninfo.com www.city-data.com www.zillow.com Here’s a bit about each one… CityTownInfo.com CityTownInfo.com is the easy way to find info on thousands of US cities and towns. Want to know the population of a town? …
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to get in touch and build lasting connections with helpful neighbors, both in your locale or across the …
I heard about this at RedFlagDeals.com. They link to 1Up.com: You don’t care how you get your fix. You just want to play a new game right now and you don’t want to pay a lot for the privilege. Thank God for the Internet, where everything (and its mom) is available for free. So, taking …
An interesting use of Google Maps… From Reality Blurred: Two sites offer ways to track the race using Google Maps’ technology, which allows you to zoom in to the street level (depending upon the location). Jaunted and JoeMap.com have both created maps that pinpoint all of The Amazing Race 9’s stop so far, complete with …
The latest LangaList newsletter talks about caring for laptop batteries: Your best bet is to start with the laptop vendor’s site to see what the official recommendations are: Check their web site for detailed care-and-feeding info. But then cross-reference that info with an objective, third-party source who’s not trying to sell you anything. A general …
A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. My favourite section of the site are the photos, especially the old ones. People who creating fake photos long before photoshop. Check out the Museum of Hoaxes…
Subscriber Irving Stein emailed me about his web site. U might be interested in sharing my web-site (my hobby….wanting to help people) with your readers. The site has the following description: This site was started by Irving Stein in July 2000. The reason for creating and maintaining this site is to help computer users (“newbies” …
The United States National Library of Medicine has an excellent service called DocMorph where you can convert 50+ different document formats to PDF. You have to register (which is free), and then you find a file on your computer, and it converts it. It does a good job of optimizing the output. I tried it …
From PC Magazine: Need to put a PC in a public place? A free Microsoft tool makes it easy to lock down. Schools, libraries, and other organizations often want to make computers available in public places. These can become tempting targets for hackers. Even well-intentioned users can wreak havoc by deleting important files or accidentally …
The latest issue of Scot’s Newsletter tells of his new FIOS broadband connection (15mbps!). Near the end of the article he mentions optimizing his network settings for his connection. I haven’t done anything like that since I was on dial-up. I went to the Speakeasy Speed Test (which Scot recommends in his article) and found …