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A New Google Page for (real estate-ish) Web 2.0 Tools

Pro made a tools page for you guys to bookmark and refer to periodically.  From now on, a list of resources and Web 2.0 tools can be found there.  There are so many tools that come out, that its hard to keep track of them all.  Thats why I try to only pay attention to those that might be useful to real estate agents.   We can all help each other grow into the next this technical age.
If you have something that you would like to add, please to write me. 

[btw.  I made said page from a Google Pages.  It can be created through (and attached to) your gmail account. If this is confusing, let me know.  As you know, happy to help.  Good Luck Pros!



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Use this Gmail hack to Convert PDFs to HTML

Tired of watching your poor computer practically putter out when trying to open a PDF file?  Real estate people get a LOT of PDFs!
 Try this: Use your gmail account to instantly convert that PDF into an HTML document!   You can do this in at least 2 ways.

The first way (as described by Labnol) is to upload the document as an attachment in a Gmail message, then email it to yourself at the same account.  Check your inbox.  You have mail (from your former frustrated self)!  Open the message and click on "view as HTML."  Now congratulate yourself for being so smart.
The second way is something that i came up with tonight.  remember a while back when i told you about GDrive  (don't forget the Firefox extension that lets you use your Gmail account as a file server-GSpace)?  Get the extension. Log into your account through the FTP and then search your computer for PDFs.  Once you've uploaded what you like to your account, go to your inbox and send yourself the emails containing the files that you want to convert.  Now, sit back and congratulate yourself for reading this post.

Oh yeah...you can use this technique for many types of documents other than PDFs. Labnol points out a few for you:

(MS Word .doc, Excel .xls, Powerpoint .ppt, Rich Text Format .rtf),
OpenOffice.org Document Formats (Writer, Calc, Impress, Presentation)
and WML Files (Wireless markup language) to HTML.

Good Luck Pros!


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If your Client uses Gmail, Call Them on It

Apparently, if you are one of the trillion zillion people out there using Gmail, there's a feature that has been discovered that will allow you to call other Gmail users.  Google Blogoscoped told us of this along with another handy tip about a GTD  ("getting things done") Firefox extension that adds handy tasks list, advanced labels and the ability to save specialized searches.   Whoa....real estate agents should have no problem putting these tips to use. 
Keep at it Pros!


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Print from Anywhere with um, PrintAnywhere and Geographically Ground your Instant Messenger

Alright Pros....here are a couple of Realtor friendly tools for you to check out.  The first is PrinterAnywhere, from DownloadSquad Blog.  It does exactly what the name suggests!  Download it for free and stop putting yourself through the pain in the arse process of installing printers and trying to get them to work throughout your network.  Now you can share between network components.


The next tool is geographically oriented instant message program similar to Meebo and Meetro, called RadiusIM .  Its an AJAXy IM solution that will allow you to talk across several instant message programs such as Google Talk, AIM, and Yahoo! Messenger.  Pretty cool if you are a realtor who uses IM for client relations and leads.  RadiusIM will help you to connect to IMers in your proximity.  [link via Lifehacker]


Good Luck Pros!  Lemme know what types of problems that I might be able to help you with.


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Instant Messenger to RSS to Email Hack

If you've ever wanted to send yourself to-do items from your cell phone, here's a mashup hack for you to try out:  IM to RSS to Email. [via Library Clips]  You can start by looking at the possibility of using Gmail as a to-do service from Devin Reams.   Its basically just sending yourself tasks to your email and doing them as you read them.  Then look at John Tropea's  Gmail RSS Reader hack but replace the step of emailing yourself with a subscription to an RSS feed (try using Sabifoo), so that you are automatically updated.  Set up your RSS feed through one of those RSS to email services (I prefer Rmail as well).  Now, you can send to-do items to your Gmail account from out in the field.  
What a great field hack for real estate Pros!


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Flickr WebImager lets you slice and grab the web

Today, Pro will let you in on a secret:  Grab slices of the web and upload them to your flickr account with Webimager- then post them where ever you like. Once an image is in your flickr account, it has its own URL- you should be able to post this image's URL anywhere that will allow HTML.  This is the perfect tool to use for comments on real estate property or just keeping track of whos linking to you.


For example, justiNYC keeps track of his linkages like this


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Uncle Google brings New Beta for Blogger

You must have asked for it, cuz  you got it!  Blogger just went beta and Google is bringing some new features.  Also, you can now tie your blogger account to your gmail account.  

Some of the new stuff you'll find:

• Categorizing posts with labels
• Blog Readers - specify who can read your blog
• Appearance changing - templates, and managing changes without HTML

Pro wonders how this will effect the development of Picasa Web Albums.





[link via DownloadSquad]














check out the Blogger Buzz

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Are you a Blog Success?

Is your blog making you a real estate success story?  Here are a few of them to compare yourself to. [Inman News]  Congrats to all of this year's Innovation Award Nominees.