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.
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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.
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.
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.
If you’re using video to promote your business, don’t limit yourself by posting it to just one site. At TubeMogul you can upload your video and have it sent to a host of video and social networking sites for free. Plus it offers tons of great features such as analytics on who and how your video is being viewed.
Remember when you were in school and you buried the time capsule that wasn’t to be opened for 50 years? At FutureMe.org, you can find a variation of this concept by being able to email yourself sometime in the future. You can capture your life today and send yourself a note to arrive next week, next year, or the next decade. Or you can write about how you’d like to be in a year or five years and send yourself a note dated at that time to see if you reach your goals.
Even if you think all this is a little hokey, check out the letters others have sent (there is an option to make your letter public). There are some very amusing notes people are sending to their future selves.
To learn more or send yourself a note, visit FutureMe.org.
the long run stocks are one of the best investment options.
