It’s been a long time since I fired up the Windows Installation on my iMac at home. In fact it’s been several months. During that time I just haven’t had the need to use Windows as I am perfectly happy with the Mac in it’s native configuration. Because it had been months since I last…
After several false starts, 2011 has been labeled the “Year of the Tablet”. (Here is a link to a Google search on that topic: the year of the tablet: https://realtytechbytes.com/Tablet) When the iPad first came out there was a big rush on the part of iPhone developers to port their apps onto the new and…
My passion these days is showing small business owners how to use the new web based tools to grow their businesses. And yes, real estate people are small business owners. I really enjoy showing people how Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter have real world business applications and are not just for wasting time. Arguably, the…
Time for a little fun! You may have heard the term “infographic” being bandied about. It refers to a collection of facts on a topic that are presented in place of or in conjunction with the facts being discussed. While noodling around on the interwebs the other night, I ran across this one on the…
Recently I have been working both from my office PC and my iMac at home. (I keep a PC at the office for old times sake) and have had to move some big files back and forth between the two. I’m talking Gigabyte size files. Really big ones. Huge, in fact. I’ve been using LogMeIn…
Last Friday (March 11th) I was in front of my computer a few minutes past midnight. Even though I am usually up fairly late, that was a new level in “lateness” for me. I was up that late so that I could go online to apple.com and order an iPad 2. Having stood in line…
You can’t avoid it anymore. It’s everywhere you look. Television commercials for all sorts of products tell you to do it, magazine ads feature the logo and the promise of benefits if you will just do this one thing. Every one you know is there already and recent events in the Middle East have shown…
Back in June of 2008 I wrote a blog post here https://realtytechbytes.com/11-ridiculously-easy-ways-to-improve-your-fuel-economy-and-save-at-the-pump/ that had 11 ways to save at the pump. I had some great comments and suggestions from readers on that post as well, so you may want to go back and check it out again. But here it is nearly 3 years later,…
What is the most important part of your computer? Is it the monitor, the keyboard, the hard drive? How about the memory? Maybe it’s the operating system or maybe it’s your email program. I’ll admit that all of those are key components of your computer, but in my opinion, the most important part is your…
I have a confession to make. I like to print things. I enjoy reading things on line, but when something really gets to me (both in a good way and in a not so good way) I want a hard copy of it. Consequently, I am often found doing copy and paste from websites and…
