Is your business name, domain name or product name really all yours? Have a trademark in mind? Here is the place to find out if others might take umbrage with your name!. Try out this free online trademark search at Nameprotect.com to uncover potential conflicts with U.S. and Canadian registered trademarks.

These folks help entrepreneurs, businesses and intellectual property professionals to establish, protect and monitor their business identity online. They go to the wall to give you the tools you need to be sure that your business name, domain names, product names and other valuable brands you develop will be unique and secure in the new online economy.

Just type in the words you want to check and get a quick free screening search report. If that report warrants further investigation. These folks will take care of that too for a modest fee.

Free world time checker

Used to be you had to cough up a pretty penny for software that would give you the kind of personalized time information you can find at Timeanddate.com! These nice folks provide this comprehensive world time information free!

The Personal World Clock allows you to select up to 16 cities or places of special interest, so you can have them all displayed on one page. Your selected cities pop up, next to your home city, with the current time in each of them every time you visit this neat site!

Just send a shortcut to your desktop and you can check your Personal World Clock with a mouse click!

There are lots of other neat time tools here at your beck and call. Time is usually money--but here its free!

Take your problem to the top

Got a gripe? Need some information? Trying to cut through a bunch of red tape? Planetfeedback.com is the place to get heard by the right person -- no matter how big the organization. These folks will take you right to the top where you will get attention!

Simply fill out a simple form and enter your problem or question. This great place has all the top contacts right in their system and will speed your message off to where you will get a response!

Decode those acronyms

ARM, FHLMC, REO, ISP, SMPT, POP, FDIC, UPS, OPEC. We live in a world of acronyms! If your head is a swirl of letters these days, help is on its way! The Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than 172,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, the military plus many other assorted abbreviations.

Just enter the jumble of letters, click and up pops the translation --PDQ. It's Q&D!

Published: November 28, 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.