August 2010

neighbortree Lets Anyone Start A Community Website For Free

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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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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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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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Google Voice Vs. Ribbit Mobile. Who Manages Your Calls Better?

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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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