Best Photo Manager Period

One of the best available photo managers and html album generators is ACDSEE. To get a trial version click on the banner below.

Anti-Virus, Firewall and Spyware

Norton, McAfee and other Virus protection companies are bundling too much into their packages including backups run, email scanning that constantly locks up the computer and other problems I have seen on Windows XP and Vista.

AVG Virus, Spyware and Firewall is $99 and runs clean. I recommend it. For backups I recommend a seperate network drive NAT Storage if you on a small network or a personal USB 500MB harddrive to insure your data, contacts and email are all backed up. Both of these systems run at night while you are sleeping.

Questions: email me

Helpful Technology Links for Agents or Small Businesses

• Great Free Image Editing Program - Free from Microsoft www.getpaint.net/
  
• Google has a ton of Webmaster tools that can assist youin tracking incoming links, garnishing traffic and creating instant traffic via adwords. www.google.com
  
• Online Meeting Software - Dim Dim that just came out of BETA is great for holding online meetings like WebEX without the cost. www.dimdim.com
  
• Backup Products - Maxtor, Seagate and many others have NAT (Network attatched storage or USB to backup your PC automatically. 1 TB of backup storage is running around $250 which is cheap. Don't Wait - run down to your local Best Buy, Frys or Office Max/Depot.
  
• Blogging Software: Do it yourself with wordpress.com or blogger.com.Typepad.com has fees but is also a robust application that is partblog, part website and part community.

See you on the Web - Jason

The Moble Agent - Tablet PC

If you are considering purchasing a notebook don't consider purchasing a tablet pc. A tablet pc will give you more flexibility while you are out of the office & the ability to show clients properties while you are out and about. Compaq/HP, Gateway, Lenovo and Motion Computing have a good offerings online priced from $999.

Best Buy, Frys and Office Max usually stock one tablet in stock so the best way to get the best price is online.

Desktop File Scanning - Paperless Systems

By now you all know we are big fans of the paperless office, well almost paperless. We have to factor in the inital offers, counters, escrow and loan docs but archiving docs after the fact on CD digitally is the best way to preserve the files.


Cannon, HP and Microtek all make pretty good 50 sheet small footprint desktop scanners that will scan about 10 pages a minute to PDF. Fujitsu has a very lightweight mobile scanner but it only holds 10 pages in sheetfeed (1 or 2) shy of a contract. See Video

Expanded List:

• HP - HP Scanjet N6010 Document Sheet-feed Scanner 50 page $499
• Microtek - Microtek ScanMaker 5950 - document scanner 50 page $166 -$250
• Cannon - DR 2050C - document scanner $499
• Fujitsu - S300 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner $295
• Xerox - Xerox DocuMate 252 - sheetfed scanner $795
• Plustek - PL806 - document scanner $250

Thanks and lets all try to save a tree when we have a chance