Trick #1: Google Voice - The Ultimate in Phone Services

The world has been waiting for this! Google has stepped up to the plate with a mind boggling suite of telephone services! To begin with, they give you your own phone number that you can publish on your cards, letterheads, faxes and ads. Then when someone is trying to reach you the "follow me" technology will ring your office, home, mobile phone - in short any numbers you program in will ring simultaneously until you pick up the line that is most convenient for you.

In addition to the "find me" incoming call service that will locate you - no matter where you are, what makes this service extra special are the other bells and whistles including. voice-mail transcription so you can read your messages at your leisure, custom greetings you can program by caller, sharing voice mails, free SMS, call blocking, conference calls, call screening -- Plus plus plus!

This service has been in "invitation only" mode for a while - but they are speeding up their acceptance time frame which makes it worthwhile to jump in and apply. After all the price is right - it's on the house.

Trick #2: Send Your Name To Mars

Here's your chance to go to Mars! The good folks at NASA are putting together a list of followers who would like to get spaced out!

Just go to this interesting site and fill in the short form and your name will be included with others on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011!

Everybody on-board -- your 15 minutes of fame may last for an eternity!

Great Place #1: Have All Your Manuals At Your Fingertips

In addition to a lot of other features, this great place has more than 100,000 manuals on electronics products from more than 1000 manufacturers. And it's easy to use!

You can find the manuals to match all of your electronic products by searching direct, alphabetically or by hundreds of product types such as Calculators, Cell Phones, Digital Cameras, DVD Players, Laptops, Desktops, Multifunction Printers, Printers, Remote Controls, TVs, or Telephones. Then you can build your personal library on-line or by downloading the ones you want to a "My Manuals" folder so you can access your manuals whenever you need them.

And to make it even better -- there is no cost for all of this good stuff!

Great Place #2: Are Your Programs Up-to-date?

Many of us struggle to keep our computer programs up-to-date. And the.rest say "The heck with it!" and let sleeping dogs lie! The folks at this great place have come up with an easy solution for keeping up to the minute - with a minimum of effort.

You simply download their easy to use "Update Checker" and run it. In a flash, up comes a list of the programs on your computer for which there are updates. Then you can click on the download arrow - and Shazam -- your program is fresh as a daisy!

There are lots of other features but they don't get in the way of making updating your programs a quick and easy task. And like most of the gems we feature here - this service is on the house!

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Published: January 11, 2010

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John M. "Jack" Peckham is the Executive Director of REcyber.com (the Real Estate CyberSpace Society). In that capacity he oversees the development and delivery of the latest up to the minute Real Estate Cyberspace tools, strategies, networking structures and services that the Society provides its members to leverage their effectiveness, visibility, professionalism and earnings. As host of Real Estate CyberSpace Radio, he provides over 40 hours of programming to help listeners integrate the power of the Internet into their daily business lives. He is the author of several real estate books published by Prentice Hall and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich including his latest Master Guide to Income Property Brokerage from Wiley Publishing. A columnist for the Boston Herald for nine years, his syndicated columns have appeared in over 100 papers nationwide. Jack loves to sell real estate has been involved directly in the sale of over one billion dollars in Real Estate. Today he sells in his jeans and fuzzy slippers as a one-man shop and has closed over $40,000,000 in sales on the Internet recently in 20% of his working time. The balance he spends directing the affairs of the 10,000 member Real Estate CyberSpace Society. The Society awards the RECS (Real Estate CyberSpace Specialist) Designation to members based on the current criteria. He served as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), is a Past President of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and has been honored as the Massachusetts State Realtor of the Year. You can reach Jack at or by calling 617-523-4441.