Just when we figured that all the good free stuff on the Internet was vanishing like a taxi in a rainstorm, along comes a personalization platform that organizes and allows you to access all of your financial and other personal records on line! From your desktop (or your Palm or Web phone) you can click to your records, your e-mail, your news or your shopping and travel sites on Yodlee.com.

About every major financial institution has partnered in this effort to help create a personalized information center that allows you to access these normally protected sites directly with just one master personal password.

This is a great peek at where things are headed!

Shopper's Heaven

Of course there’s a heaven! It’s at Google.com where these nice folks have collected just about every store catalog you can imagine. Mind you, these are not just links to store sites but the actual unabridged catalogs from over a thousand stores!

To top it of you can do a product or category search in any of the catalogs – or search across them all for the item of your desire!

This will save you lots of shelf space, shoe leather, shekels, and it’s free!

Quotes With Ease

Ever need a quick quote for a special occasion or to drive a point home in business? You're in luck. Quoteland.com has every conceivable tool you will need to get just the right quote for the occasion!

You can find the quote you want with a word search, or by author or by occasion. In addition these folks have put together a compendium of links to just about any Internet quotation resource you could imagine.

This is a great place for the right word — and the word here is free!

Published: April 19, 2002

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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.