TRICK#1 - Track Ships And Boats At Sea
http://shipfinder.co/

With the exception of most military vessels, which are mostly excluded for obvious security reasons, here's an easy way to check a goodly percentage of the ships (and boats) at sea at any particular time.

This intriguing on-line program tracks ocean liners, cargo ships, tankers, freighters, pleasure craft pus many more vessel types. It shows you moving, anchored and docked ships. It gives you detailed ship information including photographs. You are privy to detailed voyage information - including route history, destination and estimated time of arrival at the destination.

You can recreate and plot journeys on dates you select with a feature called "Playback". Using filters you can select only the ship types you wish to track. You can search for specific ships by name and even watch the progress of ships on Google Earth using their "Sail Me" simulator. And they even have a flight simulator showing you just about every flight in the sky -- in real time.

Pretty useful and fun site -- particularly considering it's on the house with no ads.

TRICK #2 - This Butler Will Do Your Computer Tasks
http://www.winparrot.com/

How often do you perform the same task on your computer? Often repetitive tasks involve 4, 6, 8 or more keystrokes. Do you ever find yourself thinking, "There's gotta be a better way?"

These folks have developed an easy to use program that allows you to type the routine once while their software captures all of your keystrokes and repeats them for you anytime you wish -- with a single click.

If you perform repetitive tasks daily on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, this gadget will save you a lot of valuable time. You simply start recording. The program generates a file containing all your actions. You can modify the saved document at any time.

It's like having a butler at your beck and call to do many of your computer tasks. And the program is yours for the asking.

GREAT PLACE #1 - Check Out Your User Name In A Second
http://namechk.com/

Ever wondered whether a user name you have rolling around in your head is available?

Just type in the user name you'd like to check and this great place instantly shows you if your desired user name is available at over 80 social networks (just about all of the top social networking websites). By typing your user name into the "chk" search box, it will query all the sites listed and instantly display whether the user name is taken or available.

With links to all of these sites this is also a good way to see what Social Networks you may be missing. This place is neat, fun, useful and free.

GREAT PLACE #2 - Uninstall With Ease
https://sites.google.com/site/leizersoftware/home

We'll bet that you have a few (or many) programs that are clogging up your computer and gathering dust from lack of use. Many folks never get rid of these because it's often to much a hassle to head all the way to the Control panel, locate "Uninstall Programs", wait for the selection page to populate, find the program and execute the uninstall.

The folks at this great place give you a program that adds an "Uninstall" option to the Windows context menu (Drop down) so you can remove programs right from their shortcuts. Simply right click on the program's shortcut and select uninstall from the dropdown menu. It's as easy as that.

And what makes these folks even nicer is they give you this great one trick pony without any cost to you.

Published: January 5, 2012

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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.