Anyway, here's what I sent. I hope someone finds it useful:
Ok, since I'm shamelessly promoting Google, I might as well share with you a few of the other cool things that google has out these days. Some of which are easily accessable from the home page, others which you can only find if you know about them. Here they are in no particular order:
www.Google.com/ig, Personalized Google Home Page. Go to this page an log on and you can personalize your google home page with an almost endless supply of stuff including weather, gmail, calendar, clocks, games, news, comics, pretty much anything you can imagine. Attached is a screenshot of my current home age (although i'm constantly adding and removing things). http://toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php, SMS. Pretty self explanatory, you can use this page to send text messages to people from the computer ...for free! Notice that it automatically redirects to another page so if you want it, make sure you save this link.
http://www.blogger.com/, Blogger. Again, self-explanatory. I tried MySpace for a while and it wasn't terrible, but I had a lot of problems with it. I find this one (which is through Google) to be much easier to use and it just plain looks nicer. Only problem is I can't get the pictures to show up at work. But then I can't get a LOT of sites at work.
Here's a couple neat programs you'll really enjoy:
http://sketchup.google.com/, SketchUp. An easy to use (and free) CAD program you can use to build houses or pretty much whatever you want. If you want to use it, be sure to go through the various tutorials. They are very useful.
http://earth.google.com/, Google Earth. This one is just fun to play around with. You put in an address (or any place on the earth for that matter) and the 'camera' will
zoom in from outer space all the way in to the address typed at which point you can pan around to different agles and such. And if that isn't enough, you can build your
house in SketchUp and then place the three-dimensional image in Google Earth. You can even share your creation online and when the other user downloads it, it can be
automatically placed on their Google Earth.
One last thing, not through Google, but I highly recommend:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/, Firefox browser. After using this, I can't see why anyone would go back to using Internet Explorer ever again. Seriously.
Well, I guess that's all I've got. The best of what I've found on the net recently. Ought to keep a person busy for a few weeks, eh?
Scotty B
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." -Arthur Schopenhauer
