Tales from the Techside

As someone who works regularly from home often there are files I need to access from the office stored on my home computer and vice-versa. I used to use hamachi to access these files remotely but recent upgrades to the client has caused some issues with my network configuration. For those of you […]

So the blogosphere has been lighting up with references to the recent launch of Roostsm. It has been quite interesting to read the reactions to the product on many levels.
Having played some small part in helping to bring this product to market, I though I would make an effort to give a description of the […]

I am well aware that across the industry profits are dipping, time between sales is widening and clients are expecting more in terms of service.  To offset costs and increase services many REALTORS and affiliates are turning towards virtual assistants, people who support you from afar and allow you to better leverage your time and […]

Just received this notification from NAR
Did you know NAR Research produces Relocation Reports for every county in the U.S.? Relocation Reports pinpoint which counties relocation clients are coming from/going to along with relative income information. For the first time, NAR Research is making these Reports available to all members free of charge! The electronic Reports […]

As someone who regularly meets with members and vendors outside the office I find it difficult to find a good place to meet and generally end up traveling further than the other person because I am not as familiar with the area as they are.
To use Mezzoman simply enter two addresses and a destination point […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]