Archive for August, 2009

Are Granite Countertops A Radon Risk In Homes?

Radon is the number one cause of lung cancer among non-smokers. Overall, radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer. ~Uncle Sam

When Melanie M. told me about the possible radon risks in granite (as she admired my Biano Antico granite countertop), I thought it was an urban myth.
So I went to snopes.com, the urban [...]

Map Craigslist Rentals: PadMapper

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PadMapper is a real estate search engine that will map rentals from Craigslist, Apartments.com and O0dle.
Search by the usual suspects, plus keywords and commute to subway (NYC). Nice.
You can also post one (1) free listing on Padmapper (you can choose to use the URL from your website listing).
Technorati Tags: craigslist, [...]

Use Shareflow to Collect and Share Information with Your Group

Zenbe Shareflow lets you share the following with any group of people, in private message boards called “Flows”:

files/documents
comments
images
video
maps
events
emails (send them to your flow, which has its own email address. You can add attachments)

Invite folks to contribute and look at the Flow by email.   There is also a bookmarklet that lets you easily add content to [...]

Twitter Tweet Back Up Service: BackupMyTweets

Did you know Twitter only lets you see your most recent 3,200 tweets?  (I didn’t)
If you do not want to lose your precious chatterings, back them up with BackupMyTweets.  FREE or ten bucks a year.  Once you sign up, you get daily backups and can tweet your little heart out.
Here are my backup tweets.  Wow, [...]

Social Media Profiling: TweetPsych Analyzes Your Tweets

Tweets are the windows to the soul ~ jfSellius

TweetPsych puts you on the cyber couch and analyzes your tweets to give you a psychological profile of sorts, including other like-minded twits you might enjoy tweeting (no, it’s not part of a Twitter dating service).  Just type in your Twitter username and let the machine do [...]

The Google Cleaner: Erasing Folks From The Internet

What happens in Social Media stays in Social Media ~Sellsius

Most things that happen at a cocktail party become hazy memories that fade in time (except that vision of ____ dancing topless to SuperFreak at _____ ).
Unlike cocktail party shenanigans, your comments, pics and videos live on in perpetuity in Google’s cached memory– for all to [...]

Social Media Cocktail Party Name Reservations: Namechk

Check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites.  Find the best username with namechk.com.
That says it all.   (They list 130 [...]




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