Mobile Appraiser

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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Transform Your iPad 2 Into A MacBook With This $50 Keyboard

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Tablets are becoming popular with real estate agents and appraisers. If you have an iPad 2 but miss having a physical keyboard, this aluminum keyboard buddy case for the iPad 2 might be just what you need. The iPad slides into the Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case and is held at an angle. The case has [...]

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How To Download Google Maps To Your Android Phone

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Google Maps on Android phones are far superior to the iPhone app and they just got better. You can now download Google Maps to your Android phone. Remember the days of driving around with a paper map while trying to find an address? Most , if not all, tech savvy agents and appraisers now use [...]

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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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Panasonic New Rugged Android Tablet Can Handle Anything Appraisers Throw At It

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Real estate appraisal software is slowing becoming mobile. a la mode, inc. has an iPhone, iPad, and Android App, PhoenixMobile has an iPhone app, and SFREP is working an their mobile app. But real estate appraisers are tough on their gear, appraising homes in the heat, rain, and snow. You won’t have to worry about [...]

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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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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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