How-to

How To View Google Maps Street View On Your iPhone

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View Larger Map Google Maps Street view lets you navigate street level level images of different areas. It is a powerful tool for not only real estate professionals, but anyone buying and selling real estate. Street View in Google Maps lets you explore places through 360-degree street-level imagery, whether you’re looking at locations in your [...]

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How To Create A Mobile Landing Page For Free With Google Sites

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According to Google, by the end of this year over half of all Americans will have a smartphone and over half of all consumers are more likely to buy from stores that have mobile websites. Does your real estate business have a mobile website? If not, you can easily create one with Google Sites. Google [...]

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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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CameraSim Is A Free Web App That Helps You Master Your Digital SLR Camera [Real Estate Photography]

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A DSLR camera can be a little overwhelming if you have never used one before. You can change the ISO, aperture, shutter speed, focal length, lighting, and distance. Read the manual as many times as you want but it is hard to imagine what the photograph will look like until you actually try it. CameraSim [...]

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Create Real Estate Videos On Your iPhone & iPad With Videolicious

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Vidiolicious is a free iPhone and iPad app that helps anyone create great looking videos in three easy steps. The app works by letting the user select photos from their iPhone, record a short video (up to 50 seconds long), and add music. Videolicious automatically puts it all together and creates a video that can [...]

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How To Permanently Delete Your Real Estate Files From Dopbox

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Dropbox is an online service that, once installed, will automatically backup selected files and/or folders from your desktop or laptop. Dropbox has a ton of great features including the ability to sync files between computers, share files with others, access your files on your smartphone, and it even lets you recover files that have been [...]

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