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CRETECH March 23, 2012

When I first saw a screenshot of CityMaps application, I got excited. It appeared that they built a way to automate the tedious task of placing area retailer logos on maps for marketing purposes.

After reading more, it appears to be just another Social/Deals/Reviews site with hardly any...

CRETECH March 12, 2012

Here’s something for all you map fanatics – StatPlanet, an interactive map creator. It’s free, open source software that includes free maps and data sets (approximately 2-4 years old). Besides the map visualizer, there’s a data visualizer,

CRETECH March 08, 2012

Too much stuff to read?  Try out Summly for iPhone/iPad.  It works 2 ways.  In the search scenario, enter your keywords and instead of returning a bunch of cryptic titles, it provides a brief summary for each web page returned.  Click on one and you’ll get a condensed version of the article – 3 bullet points summarizing what its algor...

CRETECH March 06, 2012

I first learned about RentPost while reading a blog post on Startup Riot SHOW in Atlanta which took place last month, and immediately wanted to write a review on it. RentPost is a cloud-based property management platform. While the cloud is nothing new for CRM, household-name CRE property management tools like MRI and Yardi have been slow to embrace the cloud computing trend.

From the Re...

CRETECH March 05, 2012

We've all conducted office space tours with 10 different company officers in tow: the COO, the IT guy, the head of HR and the lunch lady. (Why is she here?? Ooohh, she's the CEO's mother-in-law's niece.) Everyone likes different buildings for different reasons.

The COO wants covered parking, IT is looking for a bunker with raised floors, HR is scoping out the file cabinet space potential...

CRETECH February 27, 2012

Over the last week or two, I've read several articles on how Apple is angling to go head-to-head with DropBox with such vigor that DropBox risks never seeing another Apple user sign up for its service. Pandodaily's Farhad Majoo, Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a pr...

CRETECH February 16, 2012

Real Capital Analytics recently released an iPhone app. It's an invaluable app to have for in-office meetings or while conducting a market tour.  Drive by a building and want to know when it last sold and for how much? More than likely, you can find the comp with this app. From the developer:

Real Capital Analytics is the only g...

CRETECH February 13, 2012

Ever feel like you resend the same email over and over all week when you get a new listing? Want to know if your email was read or a link was clicked? Tout coordinates and streamlines your emails with templates and allows you to schedule and track them, too.

From the developer's AppStore description:

ToutApp lets you:

Crea...
CRETECH February 10, 2012

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 elimina...

CRETECH February 10, 2012

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 ...