Online Backup / Storage

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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Picasa Now Gives Unlimited Small Photo And Video Storage

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Google recently changed their storage policy and now allows unlimited storage of small photos (photos under 800 pixels) and videos that are less than 15 minutes. While most real estate photos are probably larger than 800 pixels, unlimited storage of videos is pretty exciting news. In the past, each image and video you uploaded counted toward [...]

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Easily Sync Your Real Estate Files To The Cloud With ZumoDrive

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It is becoming increasingly important to be able to access your data and files from anywhere.  One solution is to sync all of you files to all of your devices (desktop, laptops, smartphone, tablet, and even an iPad.  Unfortunately all of these devices have a limited amount of internal storage. ZumoDrive can help solve this [...]

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8 Ways Real Estate Appraisers Can Go Green

Go Green by Bryan McDonald

Image by Ria Dis Earth day celebrated its 40th anniversary last week.  In its honor, REbliss has put together a list of 8 things real estate appraisers can do to go green. 1) Go Paperless a) Convert web pages to PDFs and store them digitally instead of printing.  You can use PDFmyURL to convert web [...]

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Create Your Own Personal Cloud Storage With Pogoplug [Mobile Appraiser]

Pogoplug by Bryan McDonald

Pogoplug might be a good solution for real estate appraisers that need to access their computer files when they are out of  the office.  Pogoplug allows you access to your external hard drive from anywhere, essentially creating your own cloud storage. The term “Cloud” refers to a place on the internet where you can store [...]

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10 Free Websites to Backup Your Appraisal Files

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Real estate appraisers have to keep their work files for 5 years.  The picture above is of the boxes of appraisal files I have to keep.  I have not added anything to this stack for about 2 years and can not wait for the day when 100% of my appraisal files are electronic. My appraisal [...]

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Scan Documents With Your iPhone

JotNot by Bryan McDonald

JotNot is an iPhone app that converts a photo into a document.  You simply take a picture of a document, receipt, etc, tell JotNot where the corners are, and it will process the image.  The document does not have to be straight and the picture can be taken from an angle. JotNot is more than [...]

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