According to a M:Metrics press release dated May 21, 2008, “AMERICANS SPEND MORE THAN 4.5 HOURS PER MONTH BROWSING ON SMARTPHONES…Social networking and commerce draw consumers into the mobile Web“ Why is this important? Given the huge popularity of the iPhone, Windows Smart Phones and the Treo line of phones, many Americans can now browse…
I spend a lot of my time on the road going from office to office to teach classes. Most people know that the best way to reach me is by email or text message, but there are times when a phone call is the best way. The trouble comes when they call when I am…
I’ve just returned from a week’s vacation down in Newport Beach and in preparation for this week’s posting, I discovered that I couldn’t find where I had stored something on my hard drive. I fired up one of this week’s little gems (Google Desktop Search) and soon had what I was looking to find. That…
I’ve been on vacation since Friday afternoon. Actually, I spent all of Friday afternoon and part of Friday evening driving the 482 miles from Orinda, California to Newport Coast, California down the El Camino Real, otherwise known as US Hwy 101. During the 7, almost 8, hour drive I had plenty of time to reflect…
A good explanation of how to know what computer tiuy if you are a real estate agent.
I know a lot of agents and brokers that do not like the emergence of online players such as Zillow and Trulia. I was involved in many "water cooler" talks when these sites first came out. In fact, many of those conversations revolved around the inaccuracy of the information contained on those sites. Many of…
We used to live in the information age, but we don’t anymore. That’s a pretty bold statement, but here is what I mean. The Internet, more specifically the World Wide Web, has flooded us with information. So much so that we are constantly bombarded from the time we get up until we go to sleep.…
I don’t know about you, but I use multiple computers all of the time. I have a desktop PC at my office and 3 desktop PCs at home. I also have a convertible laptop, a tablet PC and to round out the collection and to really complicate things, I have a new MacBook Pro.…
It’s 10 PM at night and you need to get a document that’s on your computer to your client. Unfortunately, the client does not have the software on her computer that she needs in order to open the document. And you don’t have the software that you need to convert the document to PDF (Portable…
So, I had a problem. My 84 year old father lives in the heart of Appalachia in the little town of Whitley City, Kentucky. I live in Danville, California, nearly 2800 miles apart. Mail service between the two areas can take up to a week, and fax services tie up phone lines for lengthy periods…
