BALANCING YOUR CHECKBOOK ON THE COMPUTER

A reader told us his disability is making it tough to balance his checkbook with pen and paper, and he is unhappy with software like Quicken. Here’s an easy way to do it using a free program.

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GEOGRAPHY QUIZZES

LizardPoint.com has free geography quizzes. For example it was easy to find continents on the map and we did well at state capitols, but finding the regions of the Ukraine was much tougher.

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FREE RICE

FreeRice.com donates rice while you play a vocabulary game. (There’s a bowl on the screen that fills up as you play.) The rice is paid for by the site’s advertisers and distributed by the United Nations Food Program. In its first ten months of operation, the site donated over 42 billion grains of rice.

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FACEBOOK TIP

Ever notice that the same Facebook friends are always at the top of your page? You can fix that.

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GET UP AND OUT THERE

If you want to get a website online fast, there are over a dozen services, that can do that, and many of them are free. We’ve used the free versions of “WordPress” and “Yola” to create web sites. Friends have raved about Weebly for producing new sites, so we tried it and must agree, it’s very nice; it’s also free.

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