Disable Gmail Compose

Image credit: cnet Gmail Compose Feature: How to Disable While Gmail is generally a really great cloud email service, sometimes they roll out features that are odd or just plain bad. Gmail Compose is one of them. I’m not sure what what the Gmail folks had for breakfast the day they released compose, but apparently they think writing emails is analogous to sending an IM or text message. It’s not. For us Gmail CRE users in the real world who need to write real emails, rejoice! Take the following …

Pomodoro!

  Kyle Zaylor, author of the fantastic RealEstate Java blog recently wrote a blog post about the Pomodoro time management technique. The post hit home with me since I’ve been using the technique for the past year or so. I can say without a doubt that I’ve been able to increase my focus based on the Pomodoro (Italian for ‘tomato’) technique, which is especially useful as a commercial appraiser where I need large blocks of uninterrupted time to concentrate. I’d recommend reading his blog pos…

Does Facebook work for B-to-B companies?

Kudos to 42Floors and View The Space

Back in September 12, 2012 on CRE Outsider, Loopnet’s very own Kelly Steiz mentioned that Loopnet was “currently in development for new functionality to support the upload of videos.” I suggested that they code up a DIV and be done with it… Six months later: still no video! Meanwhile, 42Floors and View The Space are now teaming up to provide video tours. Check it out: How’d they do it? A couple DIVs and some javascript… <div id=”video” class=”media-container media-viewer first”> …

Mailbox: Putting email in its place

I must admit something. I am addicted to email. On any given work day, I probably check my email accounts (I have 4) 100+ times. I have no idea why. Since I opened my first email account in 1998 (Hotmail!), I cannot recall one email where my life was in danger because I didn’t read it in time. Something I’ve learned: all this email checking is an unnecessary stress and distraction. But, I have found the cure: Inbox Zero. Inbox Zero isn’t a new concept, many people (my wife included) have suggest…

PropertyPilot takes real estate data to a whole new level

Floorplanning the easy way

Do you or your clients have a difficult time envisioning how a vacant office suite would layout? Commercial real estate just isn’t staged the way residential listings usually are; so, unless your full-time job is CRE, many times this can be a struggle. Rather than sitting through napkin sketching meetings, check out Floorplanner. Floorplanner is the easiest and best-looking way to create and share interactive floorplans online. Whether you’re moving into a new house, planning a wedding or reorga…

Easier Email Signatures

Adding signatures to email can be a real chore. Sometimes you can’t use images, or if you can, they’re not embedded and end up as attachments. And links to your social networks – forget about it! Some of the problems can be solved with “advanced” methods requiring some HTML knowledge. But if you’re frustrated with your email software’s signature options, give AirTime for Email a try. You’ll not only be able to create a good looking signature file but track clicks, target signatures by location o…

Rofo’s New Listing Widget

Rofo.com just rolled out its new Listings Widget. It is slick, clean and simple to implement. From Rofo’s announcement: We’re excited to unveil a new (and easier way) for commercial real estate brokers, agents, property managers and landlords to present available listings on their own website. The Rofo listings widget (please help us come up with a better name) is: FREE SCALABLE FLEXIBLE CUSTOMIZABLE And it’s easy to use. It’s packed with functionality, easy on the eyes, simplifies data manageme…

Now maybe its LinkedIn’s turn to become the next MySpace