Archive for June 2009
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Land in Cyberspace: Real Estate Online
America is a country of immigrants. In many of our immigrant communities — those of the Irish and the Jews come to mind — a traditional dictum was “buy land.” (Many old-world forefathers had
Installing and Using VivoActive Player
Vivo Software’s VivoActive Player plug-in enables you to get on-demand Web video and audio from websites offering VivoActive content. The 788KB plug-in is available free for Windows and Macintosh users and can be downloaded from Vivo’s website. Installing the VivoActive Player is no different from installing any other plug-in.
School’s Out! Time for Summer Reading
Summer vacation has hardly begun and already your kids have gone through all their games, toys and books, filling the house with cries of “I’m bored!” No problem, the Web has some terrific sites to keep kids occupied and — most important — keep them reading. Timeless classics, musical storybooks, animated illustrations, “ask the author” [...]
Read Someone’s Diary Before Your Next Trip
Sometimes when you return from a great trip, vacation or adventure you just gotta let the rest of the world know about it. Unfortunately, travelogues and travel diaries don’t exactly fly off the retail shelves, making the task of getting travel musings published as difficult as a rhino climbing Mt. Kenya. Now, with the advent [...]
Healthy Recipes Galore
If you think “healthy cooking” is synonymous with “bland and boring”, think again. The Internet offers an incredible variety of healthy recipes, many of which don’t even involve tofu or bean sprouts, and many of which appear quite edible. Try Cyberdiet’s Recipe Index for starters. It’s got hundreds of great-sounding recipes, from Ostrich With Mulled [...]
Go Study or Work Elsewhere
What does a restless businesswoman have in common with a long-haired college student? Not much, except that both can relocate to a foreign country and have a profitable and rewarding experience. And both can use the Net to find experiences abroad that are much more than a vacation.
Bicycling Clubs And Getaways
United We Ride, Divided We Fall Delve into the joy of joining a bike club — where you unite with others with the same interests. Without these supportive sources, you just may fall flat on your face in some mud puddle on the side of a bike path. Anyway …
Camp Internet: Find a Summer Camp for Your Kids
Now that school’s out, you are probably realizing that summer is going to last a long, long time unless you find something for the kids to do other than run through the house chasing the dog in wet swim trunks. It is not too late to enroll the youngsters in a summer camp; the Net [...]
Invaders
With the holidays coming, your little ones may be hankering for something violent. To that end, we have video games, which allow the tykes to blow things up.
Go Study or Work Elsewhere
What does a restless businesswoman have in common with a long-haired college student? Not much, except that both can relocate to a foreign country and have a profitable and rewarding experience. And both can use the Net to find experiences abroad that are much more than a vacation. A good starting place is Transitions Abroad, [...]
