Many readers of CRE Apps look to us to learn about new ways to work faster and smarter. CRE Apps’ primary objective is to provide a site where people can visit to learn about new ideas and technologies to do just that. Over the last 18 months, we’ve worked hard to built a loyal readership, [...]
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AOL Alto Mail
Image credit: The Verge AOL Alto: A new way to think about email Yes, you read correctly, that AOL. What was once the most popular email service (You’ve got mail!) faded into obscurity after loosing market share to first Yahoo! and then later Google’s Gmail, which has held it’s place as the most popular free email client since [...]
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Let’s reinvent the search for office space
I’ve been thinking a lot about how folks search for office space, lately. In general terms, once the need is identified, the steps in order to lease new office space are to – Define the targeted area and create a list of suitable availabilities Decision-makers give a thumbs up or down for each property on [...]
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Floored: 3D floor planning like never before
Floored creates fully interactive, digital versions of real-life interior spaces. Floored offers 3D scanning, data refinement, and design services. The Floored process precisely captures any space in three dimensions with photographic detail. Then, using a combination of sophisticated algorithms and manual reconstruction, they further refine this data. When they’re done, the plan is available online, [...]
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Using apps for work? Here’s a couple to try at home
So, you’re apped-out to the hilt at work. You’ve figured out what CRM application makes you more productive, what document storage app is the easiest to use…. but, what about when you go home? I recently moved to a new place and took the opportunity to splurge on some new technology I’ve been eyeing for [...]
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Disable Gmail Compose
Image credit: cnet Gmail Compose Feature: How to Disable While Gmail is generally a really great cloud email service, sometimes they roll out features that are odd or just plain bad. Gmail Compose is one of them. I’m not sure what what the Gmail folks had for breakfast the day they released compose, but apparently they think writing [...]
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Pomodoro!
Kyle Zaylor, author of the fantastic RealEstate Java blog recently wrote a blog post about the Pomodoro time management technique. The post hit home with me since I’ve been using the technique for the past year or so. I can say without a doubt that I’ve been able to increase my focus based on the Pomodoro (Italian for ‘tomato’) technique, [...]
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Kudos to 42Floors and View The Space
Back in September 12, 2012 on CRE Outsider, Loopnet’s very own Kelly Steiz mentioned that Loopnet was “currently in development for new functionality to support the upload of videos.” I suggested that they code up a DIV and be done with it… Six months later: still no video! Meanwhile, 42Floors and View The Space are [...]
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Mailbox: Putting email in its place
I must admit something. I am addicted to email. On any given work day, I probably check my email accounts (I have 4) 100+ times. I have no idea why. Since I opened my first email account in 1998 (Hotmail!), I cannot recall one email where my life was in danger because I didn’t read [...]
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Floorplanning the easy way
Do you or your clients have a difficult time envisioning how a vacant office suite would layout? Commercial real estate just isn’t staged the way residential listings usually are; so, unless your full-time job is CRE, many times this can be a struggle. Rather than sitting through napkin sketching meetings, check out Floorplanner. Floorplanner is the [...]
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