Category Archives: Mobile Devices

You’ve got one day left to win a 30 gigabyte SugarSync account — just sign up to receive email updates from Geek Estate. That’s all there is to it. 3 random winners will be drawn tomorrow, September 15th, 2011. Enter for your chance to win by entering your email address HERE. What are you waiting for?

A gentle reminder that you have ONLY 8 days left to qualify for the 30 gigabyte SugarSync giveaway we’re running right now. Each free account is valued at $49.99 over the course of the next 12 months. Not convinced of the value? Here are a few stories from those using the service. Simply sign up for updates from Geek Estate using the form below and we’ll randomly choose 3 names from the list on September 15th. Further details can be found HERE. Good luck!! #af-form-90799181 … Read More »

We have a giveaway for 3 lucky Geek Estate Readers — a FREE 30 Gigabyte SugarSync account. For those of you who aren’t familiar with SugarSync, it’s your personal cloud to back up all your music, photos, documents, and videos across all your various devices. No more migrating files from you desktop to your laptop to your wife’s laptop to your mobile device. If you’re looking for information on the cloud for real estate agents, here are additional details. Each free account is valued at … Read More »

Mobile marketing for real estate is so in your face right now that it can’t be ignored any longer. The options available for you to create and tailor your mobile application are so plentiful that you could literally have one ready within an hour of reading this. I want to talk about two aspects – getting up and running and then the marketing benefits from all of these efforts. The mobile market is absolutely massive and it continues to grow so hopefully this gets you … Read More »

Here’s a tweet by Brian Dittmer that I wanted to extend to the Geek Estate audience for further feedback: what features would your ultimate #realestate app have? #retechchat What do you think? What is the killer real estate app and what features does it need to include? Does the app already exist in some form? What are your favorite real estate apps already available?

It seems everywhere I go people are talking about QR codes. When it comes to QR codes, where is the data that supports the hype? Here’s a comment by Chris Dowell on the Mobile Marketing post which is quite telling if you ask me: I have been using QR codes for 9 months. After spending lots of time promoting my QR Code I would like to share all of the prospects I have received with this new technology. Whoops, there is nothing to share. Yep, after … Read More »

Supra has been promising a version of eKey for the Apple iPhone for several months now.  I was starting to think it was vaporware until the application finally showed up on the iTunes store recently.  I personally don’t own an iPhone and I was a little concerned that I might be excluded because the iPhone was the only compatible device shown in Supra’s marketing material.  Thankfully, it turns out that my hunch was correct.  The iPod Touch works as an eKey flawlessly.  There is one … Read More »

SignMyPad is a new iPad app that lets you sign and fill out pdfs right from your iPad. If you’re like me, you chafe every time you need to print out a form, fill it out and sign it, scan it, then discard the original printed version. While there are much larger and more established companies such as Docusign, SignMyPad takes a different approach. Instead of a computer generated signature, with SignMyPad you literally sign with your finger. In terms of acceptance of this kind of digital … Read More »

Like you, I’m In and Out, on the Go, and in a hurry.  I need my important stuff handy wherever iGo and whenever I get there. I searched around for something REALTOR® friendly.  Something simple and affordable.  Something that works smooth-like-real-butter, on my desktop, my notebook, my iPad and my iPhone. I  and settled on a beautifully simple application called Dropbox.  The process is straight forward. If you’re looking for a simple synching solution, I think you’ll like this. Sign Up for your Drobox account.  2Gigs … Read More »

AppVee recently posted a review of Zillow’s recently released Android application. In addition to the Android app, Zillow mobile has also produced an iPhone app and an app specifically for the IPad.