Quite often a service on the Internet comes along that provides highly useful, even potentially life-saving information. The good folks at The Emergency E-mail Network have a mission to: "Provide notification to citizens of local, regional, national and international emergencies utilizing the Internet and electronic mail (email) in a secure and expedient manner".
To get this free service started, you do a quick one time custom setup choosing from a variety of areas of concern such as utility outages, severe weather, changes in daily weather and other menu categories. Then these folks will notify by E-mail, pager or cell phone (whatever manner you select).
How Fast Is Your Connection?
Ever wonder how well your Internet connection is doing at any particular time? Did school let out and slow your cable modem connection to a crawl? Getting cranky because you can't figure out what's going on?
With one click to the handy Computing Central, you will get an instant reading showing the on-line speed at which you are really operating at any given moment. In addition to the speed measurement, this site provides you with lots of additional information regarding your connection, including a gauge that helps you compare your current connectivity performance with all the various methods of connecting to the web
Put a shortcut on your desktop and you are never more that a click away from seeing how you are doing in Cyberspace!
Share Your Huge Files Easily
Got a whale of a file? Want to share it with someone but can't get it out by e-mail because of a providers limitation of file size transfer? Here's a way to get your file through.
Whalemail.com allows you to upload up to a 75 MB file, or several files totaling that size. You then send the folks you want to receive the file a pre-prepared message (allowing for your customization). When your intended recipients receive your message, they simply click a link in the message and the file downloads to them.
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Published: October 5, 2000
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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. |
