A Site for Sore Eyes Harry K. Jones on 25 Jul 2008 10:00 am
More Time-saving Resources #3
Here’s our third installation of a new feature designed to assist you in your efforts to save some time and effort in your day-to-day quest for success. As we locate valuable resources, we’ll post them here for your convenience. Browse the listing, identify potential assets, make a quick trip to those sites you choose to see if they may be worthwhile to add to your Favorites.
If you happen to have resources you feel might be valuable to others, please feel free to send them to me at the e-mail address listed here, and we’ll certainly consider posting them as well.
What Happened the Year You Were Born
This site takes you on a nostalgic trip down Memory Lane. Want to show your children or grandchildren what things were like when you were young? This site will provide you with everything you need. Pick any year … the year you were born, the year you graduated, the year you were married—your choice. Simply enter your year of choice, click, and back you go.
- You’ll find a list of events that took place in that year.
- You’ll find a list of the most popular musicians of that year.
- You’ll learn about the popular culture of that particular year.
- You’ll see the most popular inventions of that year.
- You’ll learn about the technology that emerged that year.
- You’ll find out the price of typical purchases for that year (gallon of gas, new car, house, average wage, etc.)
- You’ll see actual videos from the news of the day.
Free Telephone Reminders:
Wakerupper is the web’s easiest telephone reminder tool. Schedule reminder calls on the web. It couldn’t be simpler. Use Wakerupper to:
- Set a wake-up call at a specific time.
- Remind yourself of important events.
- Remember to take medication on time.
- Escape from a boring date or meeting.
- Remind child or spouse to do chores.
- Set reminders for tasks and follow-ups … and much more!
It works with any phone in the U.S. and Canada. You can even test drive Wakerupper before you trust it to wake you for an important meeting or task. Schedule a test call—it’s free! Wakerupper even has its own blog providing a demo and additional information.
Time Zone and Other Travel Tools
The World Clock shows current time in all parts of the world. The International Dialing Codes includes area codes for many countries. Day and Night Map shows the current position of the Sun and indicates which parts of the Earth are in day and which are in night. The Sun Calculator shows local time, adjusted for daylight savings time for when the sun is rising or setting, or in twilight, dusk and dawn. The Distance Calculator calculates distance between any two cities available in the World Clock. If you want to display local time for a location in any time zone on your website or blog, you can do so with the free clock. The Time Zone Converter calculates your local time, based on a day and and time in another location. You can also calculate between any other two locations. It handles past, current, and future dates and locations in 200 countries.
Calendar Clock
This is a unique calendar clock displaying the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second digitally. The uniqueness emerges in witnessing a person’s hand actually writing each second on the screen.
Area Code Listing
Find area codes areas within each state in the U.S. Codes are listed, in order, by number.
Conversion Calculator
If you need to make a quick conversion for length/distance, area, volume, weight/mass, temperature, time, or cooking, this site will solve your problem with a single click.
Harry K. Jones is a professional speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a company of motivational speakers who provide custom-designed keynote presentations, seminars, and consulting services. Harry has appeared all over North America addressing topics such as change, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork and time management for a number of industries, including education, financial, government, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing. For more information on Harry's presentations, please call 800-886-2MAX or fill out our contact form.
