I’ve regularly posted on 360° pano apps and their potential for Commercial Real Estate. Examples include TourWrist, 360 Panorama by Occipital, and Photosynth. Apple even jumped one step further and made the panoramic photo feature a standard one for iPhone 5. Google didn’t wait too long to join the party either. With the newest roll out [...]
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Who doesn’t love a great tech start-up story? How about one that has huge potential in the real estate industry? Lockitron can essentially change the way we function within commercial real estate, residential real estate, property management, and more! What is Lockitron? Lockitron replaces your keys with your phone.With Lockitron, you can instantly grant family, [...]
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I am trying to think of the last time I dialed my voicemail inbox on my cell phone. It probably was around January 2009 when I switched from a Blackberry device to my first Android powered smartphone. For whatever reason I find dialing and navigating my voicemail system just a huge inconvenience and it really sucks the [...]
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Do you get jealous when you participate in someone’s webinar that uses high tech video conferencing software? Wish you could have access to a similar application to conduct team meetings, client presentations, even virtual property tours to an out-of-state client, but without the high cost? Well, do you have a Gmail account? Then you have [...]
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I am sure everyone by now has heard of QR (quick response) codes. There are several free websites that allow people to generate a free QR code but almost all lack in assisting to deliver content that is optimized for a mobile device. Typically one would have to hire web developers to re-engineer their website [...]
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As voice recognition virtual assistants become more prevalent (i.e. Siri and its Android alternatives), what’s the next step? With Google Now, Google appears to be making the attempt to leapfrog apps which solely focus on improving the quality and reliability of the recognition software, by building an application which anticipates what you need. In other [...]
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If you haven’t heard of Property Capsule, you need to check it out. The product description from their website: The Property Capsule is a cloud-based technology platform that helps you manage and present your property portfolio. All of your property data, such as property overviews, agent contacts, site plans, tenant lists, photography, maps and demographics [...]
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One of the apps I use on a daily basis is Google Street View. It is rare to find an application which is multi-dimensional in the sense that it can serve such a wide range of needs – on both mobile and desktop. Google Street View is embedded in most mobile mapping applications and allows [...]
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Taking notes on a yellow note-pad is so 1990s. No more fumbling through multiple notebooks to find a note you took last week, or thumbing through a notepad like you’re making a flipbook animation. It’s time to take advantage of the cloud, multi-device syncing and digital searching. Introducing Evernote. Evernote eliminates the need for that [...]
Continue Reading →Don’t think because you don’t have an iPhone 4s that you can’t have a virtual assistant of your own. Vlingo, a voice to text application, is available for all major cell phone operating systems (OSs). I tried it out on a Blackberry. Downloading and installing was easy but of all the OSs, the Blackberry is [...]
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