We all know our privacy is pretty much gone.. but this is a very cool, easy to use feature.
WhitePages.com has this feature that they creatively call “Connecting Communities.”
Just enter your address, and up comes a map of your area, a list of all neighbors and their phone numbers, and an amazing areal view of the neighborhood.
Will this be helpful to your business? Does it kind of creep you out?
Not sure I’m a big fan but, welcome to the new reality.
Do you have a smartphone or tablet? I use the iPhone and iPad. In fact, don’t know how I got along before them…
And, I use apps – everyday. Following are 15 of my favorite; some for business, some not. I hope you find them helpful.
Trulia has this amazing crime map created by Movity. Check it out!
Every 14.6 seconds, a home is robbed. According to statistics by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the average dollar loss per burglary is over $2,000.
With the national economy getting worse, burglary is becoming a more common crime. But, it doesn’t take much to get the thieves to leave your house alone. What can you do to stay safe?
Well, it’s come up again in our office. On-line security is a very serious thing. Make sure your passwords are SECURE! Read on and find out what I use. But first,
Do you use:
1. Your partner, child, or pet’s name, possibly followed by a 0 or 1 (because they’re always making you use a number, aren’t they?)
2. The last 4 digits of your social security number.
3. 123 or 1234 or 123456.
4. “password”
5. Your city, or college, football team name.
6. Date of birth – yours, your partner’s or your child’s.
7. “god”
8. “letmein”
9. “money”
10. “love”
According to John Pozadzides, that covers about 20% of us. And, if you’re not in that list, it will take him a few more minutes to break in. Read more…
What an amazing property! Great ideas and themes for building or decorating. Click on the photo and see if you find any ideas you can use. Happy Decorating!
Another year!
Another big THANK YOU to all my readers!
Karen’s Perspective turns 2 today!
And, speaking of giving gifts… here’s one of my very first posts, a giving post, and giving for water is still what I love the most. Find your favorite charity and give with all your heart!
Happy Birthday, Karen’s Perspective!
For just $20 you can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years.
What are you waiting for?
Has radiation from the nuclear plant disturbance in Japan hit your area? The EPA has this great interactive map for you to follow radiation levels both before and after the Fukushima quake and tsunami.
Remember, we’re constantly bombarded with radiation from the atmosphere. Radiation spikes are normal on sunny days!
WordPress, for those of you who don’t know, is the blogging platform used here for Karen’s Perspective. In fact, if you blog, you may be one of the 26 million who use WordPress for your platform. They are, after all, a free resource!
Big news for Automattic, the parent company to WordPress… Microsoft just announced that they are closing down their own blogging platform and have decided to, instead, team up with Automattic. Microsoft will be moving their users over to WordPress.
Microsoft decided that, instead of building its own competing blogging service, it should go with WordPress’s fleshed-out feature set, which has 26 million users and powers over 8.5% of sites across the web. Users will be migrated through a process that preserves all of their content and will automatically redirect visitors who head to their existing Microsoft Live Spaces sites.
Big congratulations to Matt Mullenweg and the Automattic team.
Read more at TechCrunch.
Hotel Costa Verde is proud to present its newest lodgings:
The fully outfitted, meticulously detailed, two bedroom, Boeing 727 fuselage suite. They have refurbished a vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe, which in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia).
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