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3D Videos.  Is The Real Estate Industry Ready?

3D Videos. Is The Real Estate Industry Ready?

Fujifilm has announced the PinePix Real 3D W3 camera, an affordable digital camera that lets you shoot 3D HD movies, 3D photos, and 2D photos.  The camera will cost $500 and be available in September.  Is the real estate industry ready for 3D virtual tours and photos? Fuji’s new 3-D camera ...

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10 Smartphone Apps for Real Estate Road Warriors

10 Smartphone Apps for Real Estate Road Warriors

Mobile real estate professionals are constantly on the road.  Whether on the way to a real estate appraisal, home inspection, or open house it is important to drive safely.  Photo by BryanMcDee. Here are ten useful smartphone applications to help real estate professionals drive safely, be productive, and save gas: 1) DriveSafe.ly ...

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How To Tether Your iPhone With Your Laptop [Mobile RE]

How To Tether Your iPhone With Your Laptop [Mobile RE]

With the release of iOS 4, AT&T finally allows internet tethering on the iPhone.  This lets you share your iPhone’s internet connection so you can surf the web wherever you have a cell phone signal.  This will definitely be useful for any mobile real estate professionals that need internet access ...

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iPhone 4 LED FlashLight App – A Must Have iPhone 4 App For Real Estate Appraisers

iPhone 4 LED FlashLight App – A Must Have iPhone 4 App For Real Estate Appraisers

Most real estate appraisers probably carry a flashlight with them.  You might need a flashlight when doing a head and shoulders inspection of an attic or crawl space and definitely need a flashlight when appraising a bank owned property that does not have the power turned on. You might not need ...

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Create Panoramic Photos From Videos On Your iPhone

Create Panoramic Photos From Videos On Your iPhone

Easily create panoramic photos on your iPhone with Video Panorama.  Record a short video as you rotate the iPhone and Video Panorama will create a panoramic photo for you.  There are several iPhone apps that create panoramic images by stitching together individual photos but the Video Panorama app seems like ...

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neighbortree is a free social network for neighborhoods.  Anyone can create a free community website for any type of neighborhood, subdivision, apartment, or condominium. neighbortree.com provides free neighborhood social networking websites to all types of residential communities. Your neighbortree.com website is 100% FREE – created for residents and run by residents Each community website is [...]

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Do You Want Google To Build Your Next House?

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by Bryan McDonald on August 30, 2010

Google is investing in low-income housing.  A division of U.S. Bank will manage an $86 million Low-Income Housing Tax Credit fund for Google.  The fund will help pay for the construction and operation of 480 rental housing units for low income families and senior citizens in the West and Midwest. The housing complexes being built [...]

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Augmented Reality Driving App Comes To The iPhone

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by Bryan McDonald on August 27, 2010

imaGinyze has released an app that turns your iPhone into a a Heads-Up-Display (HUD) for your car.  The app highlights the lane ahead of you and puts a yellow or red box around vehicles in front of you depending on how close they are.  You will get a “Vehicle Ahead” warning if you are too [...]

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Ribbit Mobile is a VOIP and voicemail service that links landline and mobile phones to the internet.  This allows its users to manage their phone calls and voicemails online.  The service offers some great features including voicemail transcripts, call forwarding, Skype integration, and the ability to make calls directly from a computer. I use Google [...]

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3D Videos. Is The Real Estate Industry Ready?

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Fujifilm has announced the PinePix Real 3D W3 camera, an affordable digital camera that lets you shoot 3D HD movies, 3D photos, and 2D photos.  The camera will cost $500 and be available in September.  Is the real estate industry ready for 3D virtual tours and photos? Fuji’s new 3-D camera has two 10-megapixel CCD [...]

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Sharpie’s New Liquid Pencil Might Be The Perfect PENcil for Real Estate Appraisers

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Sharpie has invented a new kind a pencil, one that writes as smooth as a pen, can be erased, and becomes permanent after 3 days.  Whether you use a pen or pencil in your real estate business, their new liquid pencil could replace both of them.  Blog photo by BryanMcDee The Sharpie Liquid Pencil contains [...]

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Turn Your Car Into A Mobile Hotspot With The iSpot [Mobile RE]

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Clearwire has introduced the iSpot, a mobile hotspot that lets you share a 4G connection with up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad.  The iSpot is on sale today, normally priced at $99, and works wherever there is Clear coverage, even in your car. AT&T no longer offers unlimited data plans [...]

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Create Panoramic Photos From Videos On Your iPhone

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Easily create panoramic photos on your iPhone with Video Panorama.  Record a short video as you rotate the iPhone and Video Panorama will create a panoramic photo for you.  There are several iPhone apps that create panoramic images by stitching together individual photos but the Video Panorama app seems like a much easier solution. Panorama [...]

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The eKEY iPhone App From Supra Is Now Available

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The eKEY Basic iPhone app from Supra was approved yesterday and is available for free in the iTunes app store.  The iPhone app does not allow users to open real estate keyboxes but does have a demo mode so users can view all of the functionality of the application without having to sign up for [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Virtual PBX for Real Estate

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Remember the last time you called a real estate company and were greeted with an automated attendant and given the option to dial by name to find the  agent you were looking for?  Not only is this extremely easy to set up, it is fairly inexpensive to do. (image by Library of Virginia) What is a [...]

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