Tales from the Techside

I remember when I was eight years old my father gave me his old Polaroid camera. I was fascinated with how after taking a picture the Polaroid would “spit out” a black sheet framed in white and from the black faces would emerge like ghosts. I spent all summer with that Polaroid camera taking pictures […]

If you have digital photos that you want to make look like Polaroid photos check out Instantizer. You could go through the process in Photoshop but the Instantizer site makes it easy to do with just a few clicks.

Select a Photo
Add a descriptive or witty statement
Choose a tilt angle
Click Upload

Seconds later you have a […]

As a frequent user of PowerPoint one of the most annoying features to me is automatic capitalization. Given that much of what I write in PowerPoint is not in the form of complete sentences I do not need them to start with a capital letter. If you find this feature annoying as well read on […]

Correct me if I am wrong…
I do not want to get into the entire media is painting an inaccurate picture of the marketplace debate. Ultimately, I defer to the market professionals as they are in the best position to make those observations. However; I will admit I am confused, not by the media but by […]

Today, I had a member call and ask how she could convert a list of numbers in excel to the names of a month. Apparently, she was having issues sorting her table by the name of the month and to get around the issue she replaced the names of the month with the number of […]

I was reading Inman News this morning when I came across a story “Facebook group for Realtors forced to shut down over title” and the subtitle was “Local association takes issue with ‘Realtor’ in networking group’s name”.
As an industry, REALTORS have worked hard for the title of REALTOR to mean something. Daily there a lot […]

Lets face it the Internet is a dangerous place and with REALTORS spending more of their time on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook they are more likely to run into the various pests which exploit weaknesses inherent to those sites. To be fair to MySpace and Facebook it is not their applications […]

So I am setting up adsense for the first time. Adsense is google’s program to allow folks with websites to embed ads on the page and get paid for clicks from that page. The content of the page typically delivers ad results from a particular category, in this case presumably real estate.
I am […]

This evening I was looking through Google News for any new stories containing the phrase “REALTOR”. The first question that comes to mind is don’t I have anything better to do. Honestly no; I finished my homework, American Idol is back to being boring and it is too cold to walk the dog (don’t judge […]

Let me say I wasn’t too happy when I had to take on the Windows Vista machine left to me because someone bought it while I was out of the office only to discover it would not work for their needs. Over the months I have slowly been won over by my vista machine and the regular […]