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Entries from February 2008

Southern California Regional MLS Coming This Year - It’s About Time

February 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. If you would like you can also Subscribe by Email. Thanks for visiting!Well it looks like all Southern California Real Estate Agents to advertise their listings from San Diego to Ventura without having to belong to Multiple MLSs.
Yorba Linda real estate [...]

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Tags: MLS

Resolve Vista Scan and Fix Error When Plugging in IPOD or other Devices

February 24th, 2008 · 45 Comments

Vista is just too smart for its own good. I spoke with a member friday evening that said after setting up Vista home premium his computer would give him an error to Scan and Fix his IPOD. However when he would plug his IPOD into his wife’s Windows XP machine there was no error.

I was [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology · Tech Support · Technology Coach

Using Dual Monitors Try UltraMon

February 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Between monitoring servers, checking email, and just surfing the internet I find that I quickly run out of screen real estate so for me multiple monitors are a must have. However multiple monitors have their drawbacks for instance one monitor has the taskbar and the other monitor has only whatever windows you drag onto it.  
Enter UltraMon, frankly after [...]

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Tags: Applications · Desktops · General Real Estate Technology · Office Applications · Recommended Products · Software

Lennovo Laptop Won’t Power On Try This

February 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

My wife who is an IT manager for an online gaming company here in the Bay Area ordered three laptops from Lenovo the other day. When they arrived she took the first one out of the box plugged it in and it powered up no problem. The next two would not power on no matter [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology · Tech Support · technology tutor

IE’s 4 OSX and Linux

February 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

 So in my debut post I wrote about how Firefox users can have sites open automatically using IE by configuring an extension called IE Tab. Ben from the VA Association of Realtors left a comment inquiring if there is a similar solution for Mac users.
The answer is yes, it is called IEs4OSX which is simply a Mac version [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology · Tech Support · Web Applications · technology tutor

Load IE Only Sites Automatically in Firefox

February 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Loren and I were having a mini discussion today about sites which only support IE and how often Firefox users are often left holding the bag. So I thought what better way to introduce myself to the Future of Real Estate Technology readers then by addressing how to use Firefox with sites and tools which [...]

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Tags: General Real Estate Technology · Tech Support · Web Applications · technology tutor

Internet Marketing Education

February 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Many of you have asked to be notified about the upcoming Marketing Events being put on by Dustin Luther and Jim Marks.
Dustin has announced the dates for the first 3 events. If you are in the SoCal area you don’t want to miss coming to one of these events.
Who are these People?
Dustin Luther (Rain City [...]

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Tags: Marketing

Future of Real Estate Technology Welcomes Mark Flavin

February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I would like everyone to join with me and welcome Mark Flavin who will be joining The Future of Real Estate Technology as a contributor.
Mark Flavin is the Director of Information Technology for the Bay East Association of REALTORS®. He is responsible for managing the Association’s technology resources, business continuity planning, statistical reporting and analysis [...]

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Tags: Blogging

Houston Association of REALTORS has a New Map Search

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

and it Creates CMA’s for you??
Erion Shehaj from In My View Blog has a great write up on The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of the new HAR.COM Map Search.
The part the struck me to most is the Ugly that he writes about. It seems that HAR.com is trying to make the CMA that is [...]

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Tags: Websites

How to Create a Keyboard Shortcut to Start a Program

February 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Are you a Real Estate Agent that doesn’t have a lot of time to waste?
Do like to waste time clicking “Start->Progams->whatever->the program” to start a program? Some of you may have copied a shortcut to your desktop of any program to make it easier to find.
I don’t like to clutter my desktop so I create [...]

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