WHAT COLOR IS YOUR KITE?
Posted on September 30th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
JobKite.com is a new resume service that creates colorful online resumes.
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A SECRET PHONE NUMBER
Posted on September 30th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
PrivatePhone.com provides free phone numbers you can give out in situations where you don’t want to give out your real number.
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IT’S PRETTY MUCH A SNAP
Posted on September 30th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Corel has a new $40 photo-editing program called “SnapFire Plus.” We tried it out, and it did a nice job of organizing our photos into one long scrolling view or into albums. In fact, it is the easiest photo organizer of any we’ve seen.
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A FONT OF UNUSUAL FONTS
Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
There are several Web sites that have type fonts you can download. A couple of them areFonts.com , which we’ve written about before, and TypeNow.net, which we went to just recently.
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BOOKS
Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
“Sandy Berger’s GreatAge Guide: Online Health and Wellness;” $14 from Que (www.quepublishing.com ).
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WHENCE GOES THE FRETFUL PORPENTINE?
Posted on September 28th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We went to http://shakespeare.clusty.com and found a new feature called “Search Shakespeare.”
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THE SECRET CODE
Posted on September 27th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
OpenDNS.com gives you a free alternative to your Internet service provider during a DNS outage.
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PRETTY CRAFTY
Posted on September 27th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
AmericanCraftExpo.org is the Web site for the prestigious American crafts show held each year on the campus of Northwestern University. All the craftiestÂ
people are there, and you can see pictures of their work and contact the artists through this site. We especially liked the miniature planets made by Josh Simpson. He also has his own Web [...]
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GAMES
Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Short games are best for us; the big adventure games can take months and even years to play. No time. We used to play “Connect Four” with our nephews, a game where you try to connect four checkers in a row before your opponent can block them. You can play a “Cities” version of the game and many others for one hour for free at PlayFirst.com.
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IS THIS THE END FOR LAPTOPS?
Posted on September 23rd, 2006 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
The next time we travel we’re going to leave our laptop at home. Why carry around $2,000 worth of theft appeal and have to deal with airport security on top of it? In fact, we’re thinking, why have a laptop at all?
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