How would you like to see the results of your redecorating without picking up a paint brush? With Benjamin Moore's great new tool, you can change the color combinations in your home with a mouse click and if you don't like the looks of your creation just start over and see another masterpiece in two minutes.

This color visualization program allows you to select an exterior home or interior room image from a large pictorial library. You can even import an image of your own home and experiment with colors to your heart's content.

Be careful though -- it's addictive!

Walk Around Town With a Celebrity!

How would you like to walk around town with the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Larry King, Jerry Stiller or Steven Tyler? There is now a unique service from TalkingStreet that provides you with a celebrity guide to several major cities -- with more to come.

The next time you're in Boston, New York or D.C. (expanding to Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans soon) visit this great site, download a tour map and sign up for a modestly priced celebrity tour that will then be available 24/7. You can take your tour whenever you want -- on your schedule, and at your own pace. Each tour is narrated by a big name and "offers a uniquely entertaining, enriching, and easy-to-use experience -- full of great stories, expert commentary, eyewitness accounts, historic audio and original music."

No one will know you're a visitor -- you'll look like all the rest of the natives -- talking on the phone!

How Does Your Hospital Compare?

Are you moving to a new area -- or simply want some intelligence on surrounding hospitals? This web tool from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will help. Here you can get information on how well the hospitals in your area care for their adult patients with certain serious medical conditions. You can compare the quality of care and get the address, telephone number and other important information for all Medicare-certified hospitals in the United States.

This site shows which of the hospitals you select provide certain important care procedures for conditions such as heart attack, heart failure, or pneumonia. The tools allow you to compare the delivery of these important procedures. All this, plus valuable check lists to help you know the things to look for when choosing a hospital for the care of important health issues, at the click of a mouse.

To your good health!

Secrets You Never Knew About Your Town!

Whether you are moving to a new town, traveling or just staying put there is an abundance of information about your area on the web. The trick is to retrieve the important things you need without getting overwhelmed. That's where CitySearch comes in handy.

A quick visit to this great place with your zip code will give you up-to-date information on local businesses, restaurants, shopping, professional services and many entertainment categories such movies, theater, sports, galleries and museums.

This is great for travelers -- or even stay-at-home potatoes!

Published: June 27, 2005

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John M. "Jack" Peckham is the Executive Director of REcyber.com (the Real Estate CyberSpace Society). In that capacity he oversees the development and delivery of the latest up to the minute Real Estate Cyberspace tools, strategies, networking structures and services that the Society provides its members to leverage their effectiveness, visibility, professionalism and earnings. As host of Real Estate CyberSpace Radio, he provides over 40 hours of programming to help listeners integrate the power of the Internet into their daily business lives. He is the author of several real estate books published by Prentice Hall and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich including his latest Master Guide to Income Property Brokerage from Wiley Publishing. A columnist for the Boston Herald for nine years, his syndicated columns have appeared in over 100 papers nationwide. Jack loves to sell real estate has been involved directly in the sale of over one billion dollars in Real Estate. Today he sells in his jeans and fuzzy slippers as a one-man shop and has closed over $40,000,000 in sales on the Internet recently in 20% of his working time. The balance he spends directing the affairs of the 10,000 member Real Estate CyberSpace Society. The Society awards the RECS (Real Estate CyberSpace Specialist) Designation to members based on the current criteria. He served as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), is a Past President of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and has been honored as the Massachusetts State Realtor of the Year. You can reach Jack at or by calling 617-523-4441.