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35 Quick Google+ Guides, Tips, and Tricks

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Google unveiled its top secret social network on June 28th and it already has 10 million plus users. If you have received an invite and don’t know where to start or just want to know more about it, these 34 quick guides, tips, and tricks should help you learn everything you need to know. Google+ Guides 1. [...]

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Google Docs Now Supports Pivot Tables. Crunching Data For Real Estate Appraisals Just Got Easier.

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Real estate appraisers crunch a lot of numbers including analyzing market trends. It can be difficult to create good looking trend graphs if you have a large data set. That is where Google Docs can help. Google Docs now supports pivot tables. Pivot tables allow you easily look at large sets of data from different [...]

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Apple’s iOS 5: Top 6 Features For Real Estate

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Apple officially unveiled iOS 5 yesterday at its Worldwide Developers Conference. While there are over 200 new features coming to iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch), we are going to highlight the top 6 that are especially useful to the real estate industry. 1. Notifications iOS 5 includes a new Notification Center that will [...]

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Photosynth for iPhone. Create 360-Degree Interactive Panoramic Real Estate Photos.

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Photosynth is an amazing tool that lets you transform your photos into one big interactive 3D world that you can virtually explore. Click the link above to view an example of an interactive image created with the Photosynth iPhone app. Photosynth for the iPhone is a free panorama photography app. Take a bunch of photos [...]

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14 Tools For Creating Your Own Real Estate iPhone & Android App

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With the explosion of smartphones, more and more real estate businesses are moving beyond websites and social media and creating smartphone apps. But creating a native iPhone or Android app can seem like a complicated task. You will need to find a reputable developer, create a mockup, supplying data and social media links, test the [...]

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Google Social Search And The Importance Of Your Social Network

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Google is updating their social search feature and putting links from your social network higher in search results. Google Social Search was introduced in 2009 and integrated your friends publicly shared content in your search results.  With Google’s Social Search update, all of those shared links are moving higher in search results. Today we’re doing a [...]

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How To Set Up Google’s Advanced Sign-In Security

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If you use Gmail or any of Google’s services (email, voicemail, text messages, contacts, Google Docs, or photos), you trust them a tremendous amount of data.  What would happen if your password was stolen? Google has created an advanced opt-in security feature called 2-step verification.  This 2-step verification requires two independent factors for authentication. 2-step [...]

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