Not long ago you'd pay an arm and a leg for software that can save complete copies of your favorite business research or other helpful sites. Students can now afford to download a wide variety of useful information to their hard drive. Web gurus can download an entire site and study its structure and details! Just log on to Maximumsoft.com.

This free and easy to use software is a multifunctional off-line browser that copies entire Web sites (up to thousands of levels!) and stores them locally until you are ready to view them. It goes way beyond the built in capabilities of traditional web browsers and features precise link searching, rapid downloading and lots of other powerful features.

If you are house-hunting you can easily download all the information you need to review with your family -- and you can then do that review off line wherever and whenever you desire!

Monitor your Web site

Do you know if your web site is running smoothly all the time? Now you can monitor your site (small or large) to be sure that it is up and running without interruption!

InternetSeer.com offers a free monitoring service that sends you an e-mail alert if it detects that your site is down or if any error is encountered. They then send you a second e-mail if your site continues to show problems 30 minutes after the initial error was detected. Finally, when your site is back up you will receive a “recovery” e-mail.

Next time your provider tells you that all is running without a hitch be sure to send along a copy of your reports -- they will confirm what Aunt Agnes has been telling you all along “That site ain't always working!”

Send a greeting

Friend just bought a house? Neighbor has a wedding coming up? Congratulations in order? Here's a fresh new collection of e-greeting cards. Recyber.com is where real estate professionals go to help them keep in touch with their buyers and sellers. You can easily find what you need interspersed among the professional cards.

Just for fun

http://celebrityemail.hollywood.com/

Want to e-mail Tom Cruise? Or maybe Tiger Woods. How about Neil Diamond or George W. Bush? Celebrityemail.hollywood.com is a fun place that gives you an alphabetized directory allowing you to track down celebrity e-mail addresses.

This is a good site to try out the old Ctrl + F trick. Simply hold down your Ctrl and F keys simultaneously and enter a few search letters to find your celebrity. We tried “Boz” and guess what? Up came Bozo the Clown at: bozo@tribune.com !

Published: August 30, 2001

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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.