Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Thing 67: Stress Savers

The web should help you save time. These three sites will help you use life without stress. Tow of them are "web 1.0" ish tools but very useful.

The Dial A Human site helps you get around those phone trees. It gives you what option you can press at many national service providers to talk to a person.

Custom Guide provides free computer training tipsheets on a variety of programs. If you need some quick help with various Mac, Windows, and Adobe programs this is a great site for some quick assistance.

Where is your Username Registered? is a site which will check multiple sites to see if your preferred username is available at a bunch of readwriteweb sites.

Discovery Exercise.
1) Explore Custom Guide. Are there any places that you call normally that you are now glad to know how to talk directly to a representative.

2) Explore Username Check: Check for your username "brand" on many different sites. If you want, register your name at sites that you want to use in the future. Keep this bookmarked and share with your friends who use the readwriteweb.

3) Write about your experiences with each of these sites.

1 comment:

ekae said...

"Where is your username registered" looked great, but has pretty uneven results. E.g. the diigo results were always wrong: I tried two different usernames, was told both were taken, but when I clicked on the link, it said the account didn't exist or had been removed as spammer.

I had high hopes of this helping out with password schizophrenia: the problem of trying to remember what username am I today, here, now?
Not so sure