May
23, 2007: RECS Cybertips for May 2007
Joe
Zlomek is a member of the Real
Estate Cyberspace Society (RECS). It provides these tips in a monthly
newsletter.
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Get into an online office at no charge
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If you like the convenience of working in a traditional computer-based office suite of programs -- Microsoft Office or OpenOffice, as examples -- and you like the freedom of being online anywhere from any computer, then you'll probably like
Zoho.
Zoho is an online office suite that includes Zoho Writer (a word processor), Zoho Sheet (a spreadsheet), Zoho Show (a presentation tool), Zoho Wiki (a text processor with collaborative features), Zoho Projects (for project management), Zoho Creator (database), Zoho Planner (to-do list, organizer) Zoho Meeting (web conferencing) and Zoho Chat (messaging).
Best of all, most of it is free.
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| Google does mobile (for cell phones, PDAs and the like) |
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Google has launched a new mobile service (cleverly called Google
Mobile) that provides many of its online tools in a format that can be viewed on small screens like those of cell phones. They're light on graphics and art, big on text.
Use Google Mobile to search, access maps, get directions, use GMail (Google's webmail application), and read the day's news. The services themselves are free, but you'll pay your cell phone carrier for minutes and data transfer charges.
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| Getting rid of the junk
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Real estate agents who rely on direct mail campaigns, beware. You will not like this website.
The founders of 41Pounds.org claim the average American adult receives the equivalent of 41 pounds of junk mail every year. It sells a service -- the cost is $41 for 5 years, and half of the proceeds are donated to non-profit organizations -- that promises to eliminate a substantial portion of the junk mail that now reaches your mailbox.
Credit card offers, coupon mailers, sweepstakes entries, magazine offers and insurance promotions, as well as any catalogs you specify, all can be eliminated or reduced, according to the website. It works with national mailers to remove your name and address from their mailing lists.
Think of it as Postal Service spam protection.
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