More Cool Sites Everyone Should BookmarkWritten by Jim Edwards
Despite all hype over search engines, personal recommendation still serves as one of best ways people find and use websites on Internet. In that spirit of person-to-person sharing, we again tour web to find best, most helpful, unusual, or just plain cool websites every surfer should bookmark. ** JunkBusters.com Is your email in-box swamped with junk emails? Telemarketers interrupting dinner every night? Website advertisers invading your privacy? Who you gonna call - JunkBusters! Log on to www.junkbusters.com and find a large resource of how and where to get help in cutting down on "junk" advertising that threatens to engulf us all! Learn exactly what to do to shut down everything from junk faxes to people who trade your personal data. ** Blog, Blog, Blog Web logs, commonly referred to as "blogs," represent all rage right now in online publishing. Not really a newsletter or traditional publishing, blogs resemble more of a web-based diary where creator records their thoughts, posts links, or responds to questions. If you want to find one of thousands of blogs online about everything from cooking to puppy potty training, log onto www.daypop.com to search through a rapidly expanding database. ** Who's on line? Anyone with caller ID asks same question when an unfamiliar number pops up on screen. "Who is that?" Even with enhanced caller ID you can't always figure out who called.
| | Save Time & Sanity With Virtual AssistantsWritten by Jim Edwards
One of great things about online world involves fact that you can find software to help you accomplish virtually any small job you can imagine, especially repetitive, mundane or boring tasks. Since Internet makes it possible for software developers to easily avoid astronomical costs of traditional distribution through stores and catalogs, an explosion of highly specialized, time-saving software applications has occurred online. The bottom line: if you can think of and perform a repetitive job or task on your computer, a real possibility exists that a small software application can help you do job better, faster and cheaper. ** Automate Repetitive Tasks Qualifying as a virtual "Swiss Army Knife" application, QuickKeys.com offers a very versatile program enabling you to automate various tasks, such as: repeatedly typing same "boilerplate" text in emails and documents; formatting text with certain font sizes and page breaks; opening various files when you first turn on your computer; applying a complex set of filters to a set of graphics in PhotoShop; much more. Commonly referred to as a "macro," QuickKeys.com takes a type of software application previously reserved for "computer nerds only" and puts it in hands of everyday users, allowing them to automated tasks that used to eat up valuable time. Though it takes a bit of time to train program to follow your directions, end result seems well worth effort. As soon as you get hang of it, you'll find your self automating job after job and wondering how you got along before without this handy little utility.
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