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Calories Per Hour
Keeping track of calories consumed is tedious and dispiriting — plus it can work up one heck of an appetite. Instead, use this site to count the calories you burn through exercise. Enter the activity, the duration, your age, and your weight — and you’ll get back the number of calories you’ve burned and their equivalent in food. For example, eight hours of computing burns up 791 calories, which equates to 1.3 McDonald’s Big Macs or 9.9 Washington state apples.
www.caloriesperhour.com
7Up Mind Reader
This fun Web site will amaze and astound you by correctly guessing a number you have written down in advance. The real challenge here is trying to figure out how it's done. Click the little waving figure in the lower right-hand corner to move between screens.
http://digicc.com/fido
Halloween Activities for Kids
Created to provide child-care providers, parents, and grandparents with fun activity ideas for toddlers, pre-schoolers, and even older goblins.
www.123child.com/fall/hall.html
Health Library
The Health Library is a collaborative effort of CNN and the Mayo Clinic. Information ranges from Family Health to Pain Management. Also included are Condition Centers with health data on topics such as Arthritis, Cancer, Cold & Flu, Allergy, Heart, and Blood.
www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library
Solitaire Central
Here you’ll find hundreds of variations of the venerable solo card game and discover that more are being invented all the time. Scary thought.
Though Solitaire might seem like a time-waster to some, it’s actually an excellent mental exercise and an excellent way for new computer users to become more proficient with their mouse.
SolitaireCentral.com offers games like Midnight Oil, 21 Solitaire, Poker Solitaire, Chinese Solitaire, and Pyramid Deluxe, all available for your easy downloading pleasure. Some games are free, others are available for purchase.
http://solitairecentral.com
Richard Sherman
is a syndicated columnist, speaker and author. His book Mr. Modem's Internet Guide for Seniors (www.MrModem.net) is available in bookstores. Read "Online with
Mr. Modem" each month in Reader's Digest's New Choices magazine. Please email your questions to MrModem@home.com.
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