I was teaching an “iPad for beginners” class the other day and found that none of the students knew about the secret keyboard tricks that the iPad can do. So, I thought I’d share them with you here, in case you didn’t know about them either! I am referring to the keyboard that pops up…
The new Timeline for business pages went active on Friday for most Facebook business pages. This change is a pretty radical departure from what was available before, and at first I was inclined to hate it. But, since Facebook looks like it is going to become the “Borg” (of StarTrek fame), the quote “resistance is…
March 30, 2012 is less than a week away as I write this, and by the time you read this it may only be a few days away. What’s the big deal about March 30th? If you don’t have a Facebook business page, it’s no big deal at all. But, if you do have a…
<Begin Rant> A real estate magazine arrived in the mail yesterday and as is my normal procedure, I looked through it to see who was advertising homes in print these days. Now this rant is not about why you advertise in print, I get it. There are still some sellers out there who think that…
My day usually starts at 6 AM with a cup of coffee and my email. From there I move to reading my RSS feeds which are the equivalent of the morning newspaper of yesteryear. Then I switch to Tweetdeck to see what is going on with the Twitterverse. From there I switch over to LinkedIn…
If you use a computer for any length of time, you eventually start to accumulate all sorts of useless files on your hard disk. The biggest junk file creator is your web browser. Every web site that you have visited leaves behind a file that is the exact duplicate of the site that you visited. …
Part of the year end process for any business is storing the records from the previous year. And real estate agents are no exception. We commonly have many transaction files to store and once they are boxed up they get transported to a storage facility. Often times the facility is off site and inconvenient to…
With so much emphasis these days on the paperless transaction, storing things in the “cloud” and on mobile computing, I thought it might be a good idea to explore some ways to stay safe online. During my research online I found many good resources for learning how to avoid making security mistakes. But one source…
How well do you use Facebook? Twitter? LinkedIn? WordPress? If you are like most, you probably know enough to make basic use of these sites, but are you really up to speed and getting the maximum value from them? If not, you could search YouTube for instructional videos (Assuming that you watch the most recent…
Buying a new smart phone these days has suddenly gotten very complicated. Not only do you have to decide on a carrier before getting started, you also have to to decide if you want an iPhone, a Blackberry, a Windows phone or an an Android. The iPhone part is easier than the others, you only…
