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President at Zeek Interactive http://zeek.com and founder of RealEstateShows.com. I'm the proud father of six, and happy husband of one. (@headmutha)

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Photo Sketch iPhone App Adds PDF Export

The updated version of Photo Sketch for iPhone, version 1.5, is faster and with a paid upgrade, allows you to export the vector file as a PDF.

This means you can open the file in an application like Adobe Illustrator to edit each squiggle, if you wish. More importantly, it means you can generate files at any resolution. A sample is attached.

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Posted 1 day ago

The #BHGREiPhone "Home Selection Assistant" App Is A Refreshing Departure From The Norm

                     

When I visited the Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Headquarters a few weeks ago, Camilla Sullivan, SVP of Marketing, told me that I was going to be very impressed with the BHGRE iPhone app when I saw it. My quick review tells me she was right. 

This is not your typical real estate iPhone app. It's objective is not to lead you to a home via search or to a BHGRE agent. It's name, "Home Selection Assistant," really says it all. It is your "assistant" in the home selection process. You'll use it for taking notes as you're out shopping for a home, look up neighborhood data, find information on home remodeling, landscaping, or how to "make a winning offer." All of the informative content is driven by the extremely consumer friendly Clean Slate Blog.

The BHGRE iPhone app also allows you to snap your own photos of homes your viewing, place those photos into albums, rate the features and the home, and add comments in the moment. And I can quickly share any of it via email or on Facebook. As you can see from the screen captures above, it's SOLELY focused on consumer benefit. I find that refreshing.

In fact, I searched, but could not find a single attempt to direct me toward an individual real estate agent or away from the homes I might be looking at. If it's there, it's hidden very well. Thankfully.  

If I were out looking at houses, this is an app I would appreciate. This is an app I would use. 

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Posted 2 days ago

New Twitter Spam: Let Your Friends Know They're Hacked

As a rule, your friends don't mean to spam you. They make the mistake of clicking on a link sent by a trusted source. So, do your friends a favor and let them know they've been hacked. Seven different accounts have sent this to me in the last 20 minutes.

Clue: If a link is has a random bunch of letters in the domain or subdomain, like this one "qwecvgfjk" it's probably someone up to no good.

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Posted 8 days ago

Kindle 1.2 For iPhone Allows Highlighting & Notes

Now, if it would just allow me to share them...

   

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Posted 15 days ago

LinkedIn Updates iPhone App

Allows accepting and sending of invites.

   

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Posted 15 days ago

ReelDirector - Video Editing for iPhone

Here's a quick test of ReelDirector, a new iPhone app that does simple video editing. The user interface is clear and simple. It didn't crash once. Pretty impressive. I look for Apple to come out with their own.

                 

Thanks to Joel Burslem for alerting me.

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Posted 17 days ago

MFFO at Blogworld Expo - Booth 319

If you're at Blogworld, stop by and give MFFO some love!

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Posted 21 days ago

My 3rd Failed Test To Share From Qik App

While it may appear that this was successful, it wasn't. After three attempts to share directly from the Qik.com application on this Android powered myTouch phone, I've resorted to posting this manually via email. Although email is properly set up on the phone, no emails were actually sent from the Qik.com application.

If you've successfully accomplished this, please let me know.

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Posted 25 days ago

Fun With Photo Sketch - The Skate Park

While my boys have their fun... I have mine. :)

                       

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Posted 27 days ago

Photoshop.com Mobile Comes To The iPhone

While I love the camera on my iPhone 3Gs, sometimes the light is not quite right for the perfect shot. Lots of apps exist on the iPhone to help you remedy this problem. I've tested dozens. I can confidently say that none of them are as easy to use as Adobe's Photoshop.com Mobile.

It's not overstuffed with features, and it doesn't need to be. The Adobe programmers nailed the use of the iPhones touch screen and simplified the tools by making the entire screen act as your effect slider. If you've ever tried to grab the small slider bar on some apps, you'll know why that's a benefit. Here's a sample result.

   

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Posted 27 days ago