This may not seem like fun to some, but it is for me. I have a confession to make and hope that both of my readers will understand. I am kind of geeky, which is different than nerdy, I was never in the chess club in high school, nor was I a mathlete in junior high. I was a normal kid running around raising hell, and was pretty good at it.
I tried to label the picture posted above, so that it makes sense. I am my own technical support person so I can do anything I want to, using my hardware, software and a little imagination. I use a laptop computer and have it hooked up to a monitor and set it up so that I see two screens at the same time.
My email, and anything I am writing is on the laptop screen. On the larger screen I have a web browser so I can access the MLS and have access to web based programs and the internet. I can move my mouse from one screen to another, and drag windows from screen to screen. My computer has a couple of gigabytes of ram and some additional hardware so that I can run multiple programs on multiple monitors without losing any speed. The best part is that I can watch a DVD on one screen and use the other for computing. This set up is just drop dead cool, there isn't any other way to describe it.
My clients seem to appreciate my ability to get infromation and follow up quickly when they have a question. When it comes to the geeky stuff no one else really gets me, which is O.K., I don't get me either. I occasionaly meet other people that are like me but they are usually men in their twenties and thirties.
Vendors send me products to test and people ask for my opinions and comments on various software doodads made for the real estate industry, or for blogs. I teach some classes for realtors and help other realtors with some of the basics. Some of the gadgets in the side-bars of this blog are products that I am testing for myself or for someone else, which is why they kind of come and go. I almost never have to read a manual or use online help, if I do I figure I am just not smart enough to use the product.
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