Elixir Technology BLOG

House4Cell provides real estate agents with an innovative, affordable way to deliver instant information on their listings, while capturing valuable lead information. Using the "text messaging" prospective buyers send a 1-word code to a special number. Within seconds, the homebuyer receives a mes...

Did you ever wonder why you are getting those spam emails? Well here are two possibilities and a way around them. 1) Most likely you have a contact page for your customers to fill their information. The contact page can be used by spammers to send you those emails too. To stop these kinds of spam...

Lot of real estate professionals ask me about adding their own MLS search and listing to their web site. Based on my experience, this is more than an Yes/No question. If you are a member of an MLS, your best bet is getting a free ride on them as shown here at Victor's site. This is very easy to a...

I have seen lots of interest in hosting video clips on your own server instead of using YouTube. There are many free software that can help you do this. PHPMotion is one of them and you should check it out. I have played with it and it looks cool! I even added a feature to it by which you can gra...

As mentioned on this site, I always look for opportunities to develop cool addons for web sites using my programming skills. In this era of free stuff, I can see BIG companies like Amazon, Google, Ebay, USPS etc. trying to attract more traffic by giving away tools to share their proprietary data....

Being an IT professional constantly looking for new ideas and opportunities, I stumbled upon Zillow recently. For all the flaws people attribute to Zillow, personally I like it very much. Especially the web service APIs they provide for free which can be used by programmers to create their own cu...