<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…
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…
It’s with some trepidation that I am writing about a tool that will provide a mobile optimized web site for for free. The trepidation comes from that fact that this tool, while being just short of fabulous, does not provide the entire mobile solution. It goes far enough though, that many of you won’t take…
Recently I was asked by a local real estate agent to help her set up her new iPad 2. We loaded on all of the usual apps that most agents would want like a calculator, Pages, Walk Score, Where, AroundMe, Dragon Dictation, Google Search, Bing, Penultimate, GoodReader, Realtor.com, Trulia, and Zillow. Then we created icons…
Mobile Websites Are a MUST for “Mobile-Only” Web Users Can you believe that some Internet users ONLY access the web from their mobile phones? Considering the explosive popularity the mobile market has experienced in recent years, it really isn’t that hard to believe. While still in the minority, a significant percentage of internet users (approximately…
The local news recently reported that a man recovered his stolen laptop because he was running some sort of security software that enabled him to locate the machine. He was able to furnish the information to the police who then recovered the laptop and arrested the thief. That story intrigued me so I went on…
Yesterday I went shopping with my two grandsons. They had received some Best Buy gift cards as Christmas presents and those gift cards had been “burning a hole” in their pockets ever since. The oldest grandson had no trouble picking out what he wanted which was a WiFi adaptor for his xbox 360. We looked…
Recently I saw the topic of QR Codes and Microsoft Tags come up in a group that I follow. A few of the members were using one or the other and others had questions. So, I thought it would be a good topic for this week’s post on RealtyTechBytes. What is a QR…
How many times have you been working away on your computer or phone and ran into a problem? And there was no one around who could help you solve it? Even if it only happens once, that’s one time too many! Luckily, there are some pretty nifty resources on the web that could help you…
