What Plane Is Flying Over Your House?

http://www.flightradar24.com/

This website is quite amazing: world radar map of all planes in the sky, real-time, updated every 10 seconds (wait for the planes to move) and with all the technical details of plane, airline & flight and even a picture of the aircraft itself (stock file photo).

It tells you where the plane came from, where is it going, what altitude, what speed, What airline, etc.. There are many aircraft in the sky over every town I think you will be surprised. t

Here are some notes to help you get more out of your visit to this site. These are all the aircraft in the air right now. In the left hand Column, there is a box called "planes". The number in the box is the Number of aircraft airborne. This view is what the various airport air Traffic management people see for planning purposes.

Some additional tricks:

1. You can drag the map to move it to another city or State.

2.  When you Click on an airplane, the left screen you will get all the Information related to; airline, plane type, air speed, altitude in Real time that is re-calculated every 10 seconds. On some you can also Click on view from the cockpit.

3.  If you have someone you want to pickup from the airport, it shows the expected landing time.

4.  I like the fact that when you click on a plane, you see a blue line suddenly appear to tell you where the plane came from – a nice feedback.

As you find things I haven’t discovered, please comment.  I think this site will be a great deal of fun.  It must be the same information that the aircraft controllers see, or at least the commercial flights.  Someone, somewhere, working for the airlines themselves probably use this site.

PaperKarma An App to Stop Paper

A common problem for most everyone these days is paper junk mail.  This app is an attempt to stop it easily, one piece at a time. You photograph the address label on some piece of junk mail you wish to stop receiving, and the app will go to work, find the company and tell them to remove you from the mailing list.  Or, that’s the concept.  Works on Android and iOS.

It does have a decent rating in the App Store (Apple’s) but only 140 reviews.  I believe it requires you to give your mailing address and some email address (doesn’t have to be your main one) and create a password.  It will then email you when it has removed your name from some vendor’s mailing list.

I do this activity the hard way right now, by faxing the address label to junk mailers, with bold “remove my name” written under it.  However, finding a fax number to use is sometimes difficult or impossible, and if you have to resort to finding the fax number on line, it is too time consuming.  And if you mail a request to be dropped the stamp costs $ .47 or something like that.  Why pay to say “no” ?

An earlier effort, called MailStop APP, appears to have been purchased by Trusted ID, but the website is vague on how to use it, possibly you have to be a client of Trusted ID’s identity theft company.

Since photographing a check is now sufficient to make a bank deposit, I am sure that we will someday be able to photo address labels on junk mail and let some company use it to stop the flood. This might be the one if they improve the data base, get more users, and perfect the app a little more.  Your comments ?

Top Documentary Films

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Next time you are in line somewhere, waiting for awhile, you could watch a top documentary film for both enjoyment and learning.