New Brain Games At Prevention.com

Next time you're looking for a real cerebral challenge on the Web, try the new Brain Games you'll find at Prevention.com. These 21 games are as attractively designed and fun to play as they are mentally stimulating.

Some of the games you can play there include:

• An American In Paris - This game puts your memory and powers of concentration to the test.

• Decipher - Your logic and deductive reasoning abilities get a workout with this game.

• Towers of Hanoi - How good are you at problem-solving? This challenge should help you find out!
  

If you're ready for it, hours of brain-twisting pleasure await!

Put Your Best Photo Forward

Think you have an eye for digital photography? Don't let your best digital photos just take up bits and bytes on your computer. Why not enter them in an online photo contest? A good place to start is with contests that don't require entry fees.

Here are some of the free photography contests available on the Web:

• Free Photo Contest at BetterPhoto.com

• Free Amateur Digital Photo Contest at SOAPhoto.com

• Monthly Focal Photography Contest at FocalPress.com

Make sure you read the terms and conditions before entering the contests and may your best photo win!

How To Use The Web To Send A Fax

Have you ever faced this dilemma? You're trying to resolve a business or personal issue over the phone and the person on the other end says "send me a fax," which would be fine if only you had a fax machine.

Not so long ago, the only way to resolve this problem was to either use a friend's fax machine, provided they had one, or else trudge down to the local stationery store and pay to use their fax service. Today, you have another option: You can use the Web to send a fax!

Several Web sites have sprung up in recent years that allow anyone with an Internet connection to send faxes right over the Web-no fax machine required. Some of these sites will even let you send that fax for free!


An example of a free Internet fax service is faxZERO. They'll let you send a free fax to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. Here's how:

1. Go to faxZERO.
2. Where you see Sender Information type in your name and a valid e-mail address.(note: this e-mail address will appear on the cover page that's sent to your recipient)
3. Under Receiver Information type in the recipient's name and their fax number.
4. In the Fax Information box type the text of your fax or click browse to select a document from your computer.
5. Click on Send Free Fax Now and you're done!

You should be aware that in order to send the fax for free, an ad will appear on the accompanying cover page and there's also a 2 fax per day limit. If you'd like to send more faxes per day or don't want an ad to appear on your cover page, you might consider their premium service.

Be sure to check the site for more details!

What Will You Learn In 5 Minutes?

Want to learn how to do something new and useful but strapped for time? How about learning it in 5 minutes or less? That's the premise behind 5min, "a place to find short video solutions for practical questions..."

Just what kinds of things can you learn in such a short amount of time? Here's a small sample:

• How to Clean a Microwave Oven



• How to Build a Birdhouse



• How to Make Chocolate Chip Waffles



• How to Grow Tomatoes

And tons of other neat tips. The site also boasts what they call a "Smart Player" which lets you zoom in and even slow down the video you're watching. By the way, since this is a user-generated video site, if you have something to teach others in 5 minutes or less, you can submit your video too-just check the site for more details.

If you enjoyed the other how-to video sites previously discussed on The Senior Surfer, you should get a lot out of this one as well!

3 Must-See Sites For Movie Lovers

The Oscars play for one night only, but thankfully, movies play on and on-luckily, so do some great Web sites for movie lovers.

Love the silver screen? Then you must see these essential sites:

• IMDb - The Internet Movie Database - This is quite simply the King Kong of movie sites on the Web. If there's something you want to know about a certain movie, chances are you'll find the information here.

• Rotten Tomatoes - Why sift through dozens of newspapers and other media to read all the important reviews of a particular film? Here, you'll find them all on one convenient Web site.

• Drew's Script-O-Rama - Before the movie gets made, someone has to write the screenplay. At this terrific site, you get to read those screenplays-tons of 'em!

What's your favorite movie site?

The Nominees For Best Web Site For Oscar Fans Are...

The 80th annual Academy Awards Presentation takes place this Sunday night and in honor of the event here are some sites that fans are sure to find interesting:

• Oscar.com - 80th Annual Academy Awards

• Oscars.org - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

• The Academy Awards - Infoplease.com

• IMDb: Academy Awards, USA

And the best Web site for fans of the Academy Awards is...you decide!

How To Save Time When Researching A Product Online

If you've ever used the Web to research a product you were thinking of purchasing, you know that it can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you have access to a tremendous amount of online reviews. On the other hand, that's precisely the problem-there's an overload of information and it simply takes too much time to sift through it all. Wouldn't it be easier if someone did that for you? That's exactly what a site like ConsumerSearch.com does.

ConsumerSearch.com editors take a look at top reviews of products across a broad spectrum of categories, then they summarize the findings of those reviews and determine which products are best based on those findings.

Using a site like this just might save you some time when you look to the Web to research a product.

Double-Click Your Way To A Definition

How many times has this happened to you? You're reading something online and you stumble upon a word or phrase that just doesn't register-you'd like to know the definition or a little more info about the word but you don't want to leave the site you're on. What's a Web surfer to do?

Starting today, if you run into that problem while reading The Senior Surfer, you have a solution to that dilemma. Simply double-click any word on the page that's not a hypertext link and a small window will pop up with a definition and related info provided by Answers.com.

Incidentally, you can do this on select other sites on the Web too-CBS News is a notable example!

Have You Used An Alternative Web Browser Yet?

Do you think at all about the Web browsing software you use to surf the Information Superhighway? If you're like many people, you probably use the program that came with your computer-namely, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But, what you might not know, especially if you're relatively new to the Internet or you haven't given the subject much thought, is that there are are other web browsers available too.

Here are a few of the notable alternatives to Internet Explorer:

• Firefox web browser

• Safari web browser

• Opera web browser

If you're the least bit curious about what other programs are available for surfing the Web, check these out. Oh, and these alternative browsers are available at the above sites as free downloads, by the way!

What's Your Presidential IQ?

How well do you know your U.S. Presidents? In honor of Presidents Day, here are a few quizzes from around the Web to test your knowledge:

• U.S. Presidents Trivia Quiz at WorldBook.com

• Presidents Day Quiz at AOL Research & Learn

• 20th Century U.S. Presidents Quiz at Biography.com

• Quiz: U.S. Presidency at BBC News

Happy Presidents Day!