This is not real estate related but is in fact a reminder to you all to be backing up your files. I don’t mean backing up to a dvd/cd. I mean real back-up. I just upgraded to Windows7 (it’s awesome, by the way) and used the Windows Easy Transfer utility that Microsoft bundles with Vista [...]
PSA: Backup and Windows7
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Mobile House Hunting is just too Cool – iPhone App Released
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Got an iPhone? How about an Android based phone such as the HTC Magic? No? Me neither. But I sure do want one. Especially now. The property search provider, MyRealPage, whom I use to deliver outstanding search functions on this site has now gone mobile with the release of their iPhone/Android applications. If you do [...]
Go Canucks Go
Friday, October 17th, 2008Oh… I am goin’ to take heat for that title from my friends back in Torana (T-dot, The Big Smoke, Hog Town, Maple Leaf Country, or also officially known as Toronto). I grew up with the Leafs and have been to games in the old and storied Maple Leaf Gardens. I watched as they made [...]
Is being 100% Synthy the Virtual Tour killer?
Thursday, August 21st, 2008How much do you want to bet that Microsoft’s Photosynth takes a big chunk of the virtual tour market? For those of you who don’t know what PhotoSynth is, in a nutshell it encourages you take lots and lots of photos and then the software looks for similarities to stitch them all together and create [...]
Energy Aware
Monday, April 28th, 2008As many of you faithful readers know I try to spread the news about cool new innovations in the greening up of our homes and lives. And many of you know that I am really excited by the Millennium Water project (Olympic Athletes Village) going in to the South Est False Creek area. Well, today [...]
Property Search Upgraded
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008This is just too cool. Many times clients are looking for a property in an area and have been limited to searching by such simplistic terms as “Downtown Westside” or “Downtown Eastside”. Trouble is that both cover a very large area and right in the middle, straddling both is the much desired Gastown. So you’d [...]
Internet Explorer 6 is not a Good Browser
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Some of you (about 25%) are, shock, still using Internet Explorer 6 or earlier. If you are doing so then you are missing out on some great functions of this site. In testing we found that IE6 was breaking some elements. I am very pleased to say that more people visiting this site are using [...]
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