Ever been fishing?  How about SQUIRREL Fishing?  No? Well check out my site of the week.  Here, you can learn all of the tricks to this fun little sport.  And before you start wondering, there are no hooks, just a peanut at the end of a fishing pole.  The greedy little guys won’t let go.  And the rule is once you’ve had your fun, give them the nut and let them run on their merry way.  Learn secrets from the pros at squirrelfishing.us.

The recent debate over Healthcare got me thinking about all of the useful medical resources on the Internet.  I’m not just talking about WebMD or the great government site HealthFinder.  I’m thinking of those sites that become uber-useful to patients and doctors alike.

Patients Like Me is an excellent example.  This site allows you to enter your illness and symptoms.  It will then show you how many other people are experiencing that symptom and what they are doing about it.  Think of it as a team approach.  While it won’t (and shouldn’t) replace your doctor, you can now easily network with others with your condition.

On the doctor side, I’ve heard great things about Sermo, the collaborative medical community site where physicians can get advice on tough patient cases from other physicians.  Think of it as a virtual “consult” where your doctor can ask a question amongst hundreds of colleagues in 68 specialties.  Once again, this site is only for MDs, but it is free!

Are there websites that you are constantly checking for updates on?  How about your competitors?  How would you like to be notified when they post something new to their website?  Well, at my site of the week, you can.  Change Detection will email you when sites you are interested in are changed.  It’s that simple.  Stay one step ahead at changedetection.com.

More and more of our world is being photographed.  Using Google Earth, you can zoom in on a significant portion of the inhabited Earth using Satellite photographs.

However, I just stumbled across an application that takes this technology to the next level.  Paris 26 Gigapixels, shows you the French city like you’ve never seen it before.  Basically, you are looking at 2346 high-resolution photographs carefully stitched together to make an incredible panorama.

Using the advanced navigation tools, you can zoom in and out and pan about the entire city.  You can zoom in close enough to see actual people.  Pretty Amazing!

But does this technology portend any future problems?  After all, how high is TOO high when it comes to resolution?  What if this type of live imagery could be viewed in real-time?  By anyone. Hmmmmm…..

Have you ever called a company and been stuck in and endless phone tree.  “For customer support, hit 1, for billing, hit 2, blah, blah, blah.”  Well, avoid those headaches by heading to my site of the week, NoPhoneTrees.  This site will give you the direct numbers or the correct menu numbers to instantly get where you want, or at least talk to a human.  Check it out at nophonetrees.com.

Sometimes, brainstorming works best in a group.  After all, different people attack challenges, well, differently.  If you all happen to be in the same room, a large flip chart or dry erase board can become the canvas for your creativity.
However, what if you and your colleages are in separate cities.  For a quick and dirty collaboration tool, check out one of my favorite sites, TypeWith.Me. It’s really simple, and best of all, free.  Once on the site, invite whomever you want.  You will all see the same document. Changes by anyone occur in REAL time.  You’ve got to see it to believe it.

Ok, so you’re in school. Don’t you wish you could have someone grade your English paper BEFORE you turn it in to the teacher? Well, at my site of the week, PaperRater, you can. Simply copy and paste your paper into this site and it will instantly give you a grade based on spelling, grammar and style. Check your paper at paperrater.com.