Learn the Stock Market without Risking Your Money

Today, you can’t be too careful about your money. While stocks haven’t done so well in the last couple of years, financial experts report that in the long run stocks are one of the best investment options.

If you want to learn about stocks and investing, check out WallStreetSurvivor.com where you can invest a fictional $100,000 to buy and trade stocks in real-time. While you won’t actually make money, you won’t lose it either. However, depending on well you do, you can earn prizes.

Its free to join and you’ll find lots of the helpful tool such as research resources, beginners’ tips, and more. Visit WallStreetSurvivor.com to learn more.

Get Cooking Tips from Top Chefs

“If your food and wine adventures are more about the journey than the destination, Behind the Burner is the perfect place to explore your culinary desires.” From BehindTheBurner.

BehindtheBurner.com offers advice, tricks and secrets from the country’s top chefs. Learn about the chefs’ and restaurateurs, watch videos of chef’s cooking signature foods (I liked the chocolate french toast by Chef Peyard – Chocolate Epiphany), and read articles on everything from wine and travel, to how-to and health. Plus you can get great recipes.

If cooking (and eating) is your life, be sure to visit BehindtheBurner.com.

Give Your Mailbox a Makeover – Or How to Stop Junk Mail

Tired of unwanted mail cluttering up your mail box and your trash can? You can stop unwanted junk mail and catalogs by contacting the Direct Marketing Association. Visit DMAChoice.org where you can indicate what mail you’d like to receive and what mail you don’t. You can eliminate mail by category (credit offers, catalogs, magazines offers, etc) or by specific companies.

Give your mailbox a make over, visit DMAChoice.org

Kid Safe Search Engine – KidRex

Several years ago my daughter was online searching the web for pictures of kittens. Apparently our kid-safe protocols weren’t set and she ended up finding sites that didn’t have kittens in the feline sense of the word. After getting over the shock and resetting the parent controls, we felt better, but still wondered what kinds of other searches would result in questionnable content. With all the tricks that some web people use to dupe search engines and secure protocols, we couldn’t trust that our kids were 100% safe.

Recently I discovered KidRex a kid-safe search engine. Using Google’s Custom Search and Safe Search, as well as checking sites against its own database of inappropriate sites, KidRex strives to offer kids a safe place to find information on the Internet. KidRex says that it filters to remove sexual content, but it doesn’t indicate if it also screens for violence, hate, etc. It admits that the engine isn’t 100% safe as some sites may slip through the filters. To that end it provides a way to submit information about inappropriate sites to its database for future exclusion.

The search page is much like Google’s in that there is very little but the search box on the page. With a crayon picture of a dinosaur its geared towards young children. Because of that and because filters aren’t 100%, parents will still want to screen what their children are finding online. But its a good starting point to keeping children safe from inappropriate material.

To learn more visit KidRex.com

SeatGuru.com Helps You Find the Best Seat on the Plane

My kids always want the window seat, but that’s not always the best seat on the plane. Over at SeatGuru.com you can find a color-coded schematic of over 700 plans that let you know which are the best seats (green) and which are the worst (red) based on benefits such as comfort and legroom. Plus you can find out which seats have drawbacks and which are near the emergency exit or bathroom. To learn more, visit SeatGuru.com