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Welcome
to the 84th issue of Cool Tricks and Trinkets offering weekly insights
into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
In this issue:
- Throw Away Your VCR?
- The Technological Lifestyle
- Virtual Laboratory
- Short Takes
- Soda Constructor
- Care Givers
- The Twinkies Project
- One Democracy
- MP3 and Writers
- Subscribers' Sites
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This site offers a new way to tape TV shows and does most everything your
VCR can currently do including rewind, replay, pause and fast forward.
It uses the "RealPlayer" (free) streaming technology to play back your
selections. The possibilities are endless.
If you're at the office and remember there is a show you want to watch,
simply go to the site and record it and watch it when you get home. For
Sunday sport fans, instead of flipping back and forth between 2 or 3 games,
just watch one and use RecordTV.com to record the rest. Try doing that
on your VCR!
Online VCR - recordtv.com
Technocopia,
is a consumer-oriented site covering the emerging "digital household infrastructure,"
with information on smart homes, home networks, smart toys and pet tech.
The site is rich in content and examines the interplay of technology in
your home, work, play, life, and future.
It was created by Hillary Rettig, a technology commentator and writer
whose articles have appeared in Wired, Working Woman, PC Magazine, Windows,
and Home Office Computing. This site is a bookmark special!
Technological Lifestyle - technocopia.com
Virtual
Lab is a great place to conduct scientific experiments in fields including
thermodynamics, mechanics, energy and environment. The site uses JAVA
applets to allow for some fascinating experiments including calculating
your electric energy bill and viewing the energy level diagram of an atom.
Our favorite experiment was in the "Energy and Environment" field and
examines a fictional community called Salmonville, which relies on hydroelectric
power. The goal is to supply more electric power to the growing town while
balancing the relation between population growth, energy consumption and
fish decimation.
Virtual Laboratory
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SHORT TAKES:
If you're looking for an online calculator, visit calculator.com. There
are calculators for finance, business, science, cooking, hobbies, and
health. Also, if you've always been curious about how an abacus works,
check out the "calculator of the month".
Online Calculators
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E-Save helps you save money with coupons and rebates and promises you'll
get your rebate check within two weeks. Their directory contains over
140 coupons on items including apparel, beauty items, beverages, condiments,
healthcare products, snacks and desserts.
Coupons and Rebates
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Pull up a chair and ante up. If you're a poker player, this site is a
full house. It's a poker resource for professional tournament players
as well as amateurs looking for tips, and includes card rooms, tournament
schedules, articles, chat rooms, interviews and more.
Poker Pages
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Soda
Constructor is a hybrid of a video game and an erector set. It is one
of the most charming, engaging, and just plain fun sites on the Net. It
features a Java-enabled Web tool that "animates and edits two dimensional
models made out of masses and springs."
The fun is that is that you can play around with these moving models by
changing the gravity, friction and spring strength. If you get tired of
the pre-built models, you can construct ones of your own. This is a COOL
site for people of all ages.
Soda Constructor
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Many of us will spend more years caring for our parents than we did raising
our children. Care giving can be complicated, and finding resources for
making decisions is not an easy task.
The Caregiver Zone was created by a team of senior care professionals
and noted experts, and unites people across the country that share care
giving questions, fears, needs, and triumphs. It is a comprehensive resource
for family caregivers, elder care professionals, and seniors.
Care Givers - caregiverzone.com
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If you can find anything goofier on the net than the Twinkies Project,
I'd like to know about it. In 1995, students at Rice University, set out
to determine if Twinkies really were science's perfect food. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S.
stands for "Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations".
In the tests, they set a Twinkie on fire, microwaved one to death, electrocuted
another, dropped one from a six story building, soaked them in water for
48 hours, and recorded the data. The results, as you may have guessed,
hold that Twinkies are among the marvels of science.
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project
If
you're interested in the political process, check out OneDemocracy. It
will keep you informed on issues, connect you with like-minded people
and provide a suite of tools to take action and get results on issues
you care about. They cover everything from fixing the huge hole in the
ozone layer to filling the pothole on Main Street!
The site features easy-to-use tools that help member users create personal
and confidential portfolios to track issues, candidates, and campaigns.
In addition, the Cartoon of the Day and Humor Spot are sure to make you
smile. Their motto is, "Get Informed. Get Connected. Get Results".
One Demcocracy
Many
of us commonly download mp3 music tracks and play them on our computers
or portable players. MP3lit.com features spoken word recordings from many
of your favorite authors.
I found it fascinating listening to Anaïs Nin recounting conversations
with Henry while reading from her diary. Check out the "LoudMouth" section
where you can post your own spoken word recordings or listen to the works
of your fellow MP3Literati.
MP3 for Writers - mp3lit.com
SUBSCRIBERS' SITES - Many of our subscribers have fascinating on-line
projects. This weekly section will introduce you to some of these sites.
Please let me know about your project so that I might mention it in this
section. Write me at info@tricksandtrinkets.com
~ I Live Online.com - For
those who really do live online!
~ Kiwi Box - Teen Magazine for
Advice, Love, Dating, Entertainment, Fashion and Chat.
~ Researching
Online - A step-by-step tutorial for researching companies.
~ Blue Aura Computer Services
including transfer of video, vinyl LP, video to CD.
~ Miracles
and Dreams - Spreading joy, warmth and laughter to heal hearts and
spirits.
~ Reviewed Medical
Information - An MD offers suggestions on quality medical links.
~ Borsheim Jewelry - If you don't
know jewelry, know your jeweler.
~ Make
your own willow chair - VERY comfortable, only costs a few nails.
~ Jakes Freebie Town -
FREE stuff, saving money and having fun doing it!
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