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The purpose of the Mac Group is to provide a forum for those real estate agents who are users of Mac computers and software that is programed for Mac computers. Also, the group could also be aimed at those who are using IPhones and are adapting them to specific real estate needs. Since the real estate industry is just beginning to expand their tools into the Mac world, it is very important that we are aware of these developments.

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Apple Leads the way in Customer Satisfaction (4) Source: Apple Hot News When Forrester Research released the results o... 220 views <p> <br /> </p> <div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;"> </span> </div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;"> </span> </div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Source: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica;">Apple Hot News</font></span> </div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;"> </span> </div> </div> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;">When Forrester Research released the results of its annual survey on customer satisfaction, says Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com), "Apple not only topped the list, it blew away the competition." In fact, Apple "dominated in each category" that the survey assessed, "scoring 82 percent (Useful), 86 percent (Easy to Use), and 72 percent (Enjoyable)."</span> <p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/140068/2009/04/satisfaction.html?sr=hotnews" id="AppleMailRSSReadMore" style="text-decoration: underline;" name="AppleMailRSSReadMore">Read more…</a></span> </p> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 18px;">John Cleek</span> </div> </div>	John Cleek, Ph.D., e-PRO 4/17/09 7:31 PM	Larry Isaac 9/16/09 7:20 PM
Browser Spoofing (8) This tip from Small Dog written by Mikhael Cohen is worth sharing with all Mac Users. It is from the... 457 views <p> This tip from Small Dog written by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;"><a href="mailto:mikhael@smalldog.com" style="color: rgb(102, 153, 51); text-decoration: none;">Mikhael Cohen</a> is worth sharing with all Mac Users. It is from their most recent Newsletter.</span></span> </p> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'News Gothic MT'; font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Charcoal" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'News Gothic MT';"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaFax-DemiItalic"><i>John E Cleek</i></font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaFax-DemiItalic"><i>, Ph.D., e-PRO, </i></font></font></span></span></font></span> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="LucidaFax-DemiItalic"><i>Realtor® and Marketing Consultant</i></font></font></span></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i>The CrownPlatinum Team</i></span></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i>Crown Realty of Kansas</i></span></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i>Miami County - Linn County - Johnson County</i></span></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i>1005 W. Amity • Louisburg, KS 66053</i></span></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i>Licensed in Kansas and Missouri</i></span></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'"><i><a href="mailto:johncleek@crownplatinum.com"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">johncleek@crownplatinum.com</span></font></a></i></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'"><i><a href="http://www.crownplatinum.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">www.crownplatinum.com</span></font></a></i></font></font> </div> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Pho: 913-709-4423 </span></font></i></font></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; color: rgb(0, 16, 105); font-weight: bold;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Fax'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">• Fax: 913-837-2549</span></font></i></span></font></span> </div> <p> <font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0018A2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima"><i>Finding the</i></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima"> </font></font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0018A2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i>RIGHT REALTOR</i></b></span></font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0018A2" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> . . . </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B42C00"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Optima" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><i>Priceless!</i></b></span></font></font> </p> <table width="646" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="width: 646px; min-width: 646px; max-width: 646px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="446" class="article-title" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px;"> <p> Today we had a wonderful customer in the store who had just<br /> switched to Apple by buying a new MacBook. He was running<br /> into trouble with his company's web-based calendaring and collaboration system, as the site required Internet Explorer 6 or<br /> greater to run. He'd browse to it using Safari or Firefox, and the<br /> site would throw an error and refuse access, presumably to make<br /> it easier for novice users to know which browsers work and which<br /> don't. Turns out, it was compatible with Safari after all. We just<br /> had to tell Safari to masquerade as Explorer. </p> <p> Unfortunately, not all web developers keep up with the times. It's<br /> likely that this site's administrators hadn't conducted compliance<br /> testing since at least the release of Internet Explorer 7. It's<br /> getting rarer and rarer, but plenty of sites out there still require<br /> Explorer. This trick won't work on all of them, but it will for a<br /> good chunk of them. </p> <p> While in Safari, select Preferences from the Safari menu. Now,<br /> click the Advanced button at the top right of the Preferences<br /> window, and check "Show Develop menu in menu bar." Close the<br /> Preferences window, and notice the new Develop menu on top of<br /> your screen. In the Develop menu is the User Agent sub-menu.<br /> From the sub-menu, select Internet Explorer 7.0. Once this is<br /> done, the web sites you visit will think you're using Explorer, and<br /> some of the especially restrictive sites will work for you! </p> <p> Be mindful of the setting you choose, as Safari will not render<br /> some web sites correctly when pretending to be Explorer. </p> </td> <td width="150" class="article-author" align="right" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px;"> </td> <td width="25" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px;"> </td> <th colspan="2" width="596"> </th> <td width="25" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px;"> </td> <td class="article-body" colspan="2" width="596" style="min-width: 25px; max-width: 596px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069" face="LucidaFax-DemiItalic" size="5"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069" face="LucidaFax-DemiItalic" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><i><br /></i></span></font></i></font> </div> </div> <div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#001069" face="LucidaFax-DemiItalic" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B42C00" face="Optima" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></font></font></i></b></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>	John Cleek, Ph.D., e-PRO 4/7/09 7:51 PM	Peggy Sue 5/12/09 11:55 AM
MARIS in St. Louis (1) Good news. The MLS in St. Louis is now viewable using Safari. Ron Gorman 28 views <p> Good news. The MLS in St. Louis is now viewable using Safari. </p> <p> </p> <p> Ron Gorman </p>	Ronald Gorman 11/13/09 10:18 AM	Ronald Gorman 11/16/09 11:46 AM
Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500M & Snow Leopard (0) I was doing some research into the Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500M scanner and I noticed there was some discu... 17 views <p> I was doing some research into the Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500M scanner and I noticed there was some discussion on how it was not working properly with Snow Leopard, even with the original "fix".When I had a Fujitsu representative on the phone this morning, he said that he was informed there is now a "new fix" on Fujitsu website that should make this scanner work perfectly with Snow Leopard (which I have not upgraded to yet). </p>	Robert Anema 11/16/09 11:40 AM	--
Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac with ies4osx (1) Has anybody tried the below install to "run Internet Explorer on your Mac"? http://lifehacker.... 36 views <p> Has anybody tried the below install to "run Internet Explorer on your Mac"? </p> <p> http://lifehacker.com/328056/run-internet-explorer-on-your-mac-with-ies4osx </p> <p> </p> <p> Robert Anema, RE/MAX 100, Lakewood Colorado, 303-980-1801. </p>	Robert Anema 11/12/09 1:08 PM	braxton@braxtonbeyer.com 11/13/09 12:55 PM
viewing of PDF files (7) I would like to view PDF files with Firefox browser without need to save the PDF to a file first. Su... 84 views <p> I would like to view PDF files with Firefox browser without need to save the PDF to a file first. Such as when a link points to a PDF file. Is there a setting that I can change so that the PDF file becomes viewable without needing to save it first? </p> <p> Thanks </p> <p> Robert Anema, RE/MAX 100, Lakewood, Colorado </p>	Robert Anema 11/10/09 6:01 PM	Abraham Baghbodorian 11/13/09 9:37 AM
MARIS in St. Louis (0) For those who use MARIS in St. Louis, the MLS is now accessible on Firefox. Hopefully, the next ste... 16 views <p> For those who use MARIS in St. Louis, the MLS is now accessible on Firefox. Hopefully, the next step is to be able to use Safari. </p> <p> Ron Gorman </p>	Ronald Gorman 11/12/09 8:20 PM	--
Blackberry or iPhone? (13) [1,2] I have a Mac at home and in the office with an iMac at home and a MacBook Pro I use for business. I... 436 views <p> I have a Mac at home and in the office with an iMac at home and a MacBook Pro I use for business. I have been using a Blackberry phone that is beginning to tell me it's time to say bye-bye and I am seriously torn between getting the Blackberry 8900 versus the iPhone. The Apple Store tells me the iPhone will instantly sync anything I put into the calendar or address book between my computers and the phone. For that alone I'm interested in the iPhone but I have heard there are issues about that syncing the Apple Store talks about. Have any of you run into issues with your iPhone? Everyone seems to love them and other than the battery issue I've not heard anything negative. </p> <p> What would you do in my situation? Would you leave the Blackberry platform for the iPhone or stay with the Blackberry? I have been very happy using the Blackberry and especialy love the email features. How would the iPhone compare on emial? I do a lot of my email on my phone. </p> <p> I'd like to do something about my phone this weekend so I really am asking for comments on he good, the bad and the ulgy about the iPhone and the syncing with your Macs - or - with your Blackberry. </p>	Lenore Wilkas, GRI, SRES. RCS-D 3/26/09 9:09 AM	Win Singleton 11/12/09 2:20 PM
Pages (15) [1,2] I haven't got the new version of IWORKS and needed a template for a promotional piece that I want to... 489 views <p> I haven't got the new version of IWORKS and needed a template for a promotional piece that I want to create. I could not find it. However, I did a google search for templates for Pages and found a number of sites. Take a look as they do have some that are real estate specific. </p>	Ronald Gorman 3/11/09 1:52 PM	Eric Weaver, e-PRO 11/12/09 11:28 AM
Do most Mac users use a browser other than safari? (44) [1,2,3,4,5] Do many Mac users use safari for web browsing or are most of them using Firefox? Everyone I know is... 845 views <p> Do many Mac users use safari for web browsing or are most of them using Firefox? Everyone I know is using firefox. </p>	Brian Lange 8/21/09 3:56 PM	Malcolm Waring 11/11/09 5:09 AM
Contact Management Software (22) [1,2,3] I know the topic of contact management software comes up from time to time. I have came upon a progr... 897 views <p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">I know the topic of contact management software comes up from time to time. I have came upon a program named SOHO Organizer the web address is www.chronosnet.com the suite is $99 . I have downloaded the free trial version and so for I like what I see. Has anyone else ever taken a look at this software? Comments would be appreciated.</span> </p>	Ron Akridge 3/19/09 9:43 AM	Ronald Gorman 10/29/09 8:06 PM
Windows 7 on the Mac via Parallells (5) Has anyone done this yet?? Comments/learning points would be much appreciated. Thank you in advanc... 78 views <p> Has anyone done this yet?? Comments/learning points would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance </p>	Charlie Disharoon 10/27/09 8:55 AM	Charlie Disharoon 10/28/09 6:56 AM
Blackberry Software for Mac (8) Is anyone using this yet. I was able to download it today after several attempts last week. This a g... 126 views <p> Is anyone using this yet. I was able to download it today after several attempts last week. This a great step forward! </p>	Peggy Sue 10/19/09 10:31 AM	Robert L Newman 10/23/09 7:48 AM
Firefox and Java (9) When I run the new Zipforms program in Firefox it says that I need to install Java. It is installed.... 104 views <p> When I run the new Zipforms program in Firefox it says that I need to install Java. It is installed. The Apple software update says so and won't let me install it. It seems to work fine in Safari, but I rarely use Safari. Plus, it should work in Firefox. I've run into the same situation with attempting to edit my website (Point2Agent). It doesn't work at all in Safari, so I 've had to resort to using Parallels or VMFusion to run IE for Windows. </p> <p> Anyone know what is going on with Java and Firefox? </p> <p> Thanks! </p> <div style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" id="TixyyLink"> <br /> Read more: <a href="../../../john/groups/real-estate-experts/view/18176#reply#ixzz0U7xZC8Ma">http://www.realtown.com/john/groups/real-estate-experts/view/18176#reply#ixzz0U7xZC8Ma</a> </div>	Peggy Sue 10/16/09 12:09 PM	Peggy Sue 10/19/09 10:13 AM
MLS and Mac Compatibility (15) [1,2] Hi, Gabriella West wrote in another discussion - "When I contacted my MLS Board to ask w... 1,282 views <p> Hi, </p> <p> Gabriella West wrote in another discussion - </p> <p> "When I contacted my MLS Board to ask why they don't make software compatible for a Mac I was told that there are simply not enough Mac users who are Realtors." </p> <p> For any MLS Vendor who offers their MLS in a web browser, there is no excuse in 2009 for it to not work in all modern web browsers. What do I mean by "modern web browsers"? Web browsers that have come out since about 2001 - Internet Explorer 5.x and higher, Firefox for both Windows and Mac, Safari, Netscape Communicator (now no longer being made), and more. (Now stand-alone software that has to be installed on your personal computer may be another story, depending on the code they used to write it in. But few MLS's distribute stand-alone software on CD to all members any more.) </p> <p> Goodness, the Web is neither owned by Microsoft nor Apple. It is the Web... and is computer platform independent! Yet that is the common story put out by lazy MLS developers that "there just aren't enough Mac people to worry about"... usually because they don't want to put in the time or spend the resources to make their MLS work in all browsers - not because it couldn't work! Computer platform issues should not be a hinderance to any good web designer (which they now need to include on their MLS technical staff.) All top web designers today know that a site has to "play" properly in all of these modern browsers - and they even test new sites in all of these to make sure that every visitor has basically the same surfing experience regardless of which browser is being used. (Gee, even Point2 finally got it together to make their subscriber back-end finally work on a Mac. So if need be, get your MLS vendor to talk to them to understand how they were able to recently accomplish this.) </p> <p> Furthermore, as Internet Explorer loses more market share, (the last I saw, it was down to around 75%), it will become more important for every MLS to recognize that the end-user is the one who decides which browser to use - not them! </p> <p> Pretend to be a Windows user and ask your MLS if it will work in Firefox for Windows. If the answer is "no", then ask why not? (Don't say you're a Mac user - it will only put a chill up their spine as most of them have never touched a Mac in their lives and panic at the thought. Ha!) Just say that you prefer to use Firefox on your Windows computer since it is superior to IE. Then press them for when it will be available in Firefox for Windows. Guess what? If it will "play" in Firefox for Windows, it will probably now "play" in Firefox on your Mac. :-) </p> <p> We had the same problem initially here at MRIS which covers all of the Washington/Baltimore region. It was created in .NET (a Microsoft product). Initially, it would only play properly in IE. Yet, as a Mac user since 1989, when I pointed out to them that right now at Borders book store, in the computer book section, on the shelf of "how to books" on .NET, there was a book about how to create cross-platform solutions in .NET that one of their "techies" could buy that very afternoon, MRIS in about 2 weeks made their solution accessible to Mac users in either Firefox or Safari. Sure, we still have a glitch now and then when they upgrade something, until we Mac users again point out that new problem. But they are usually quick to respond and fix it now. </p> <p> So press the point with your MLS or your local REALTOR Association. Most MLS's are "cash cows", bringing in HUGE profits if your local association still owns it. They have the money to fix this right now. So you need to now instill the desire in them to fix it! Don't take "no" for an answer! </p> <p> Feel free to contact me with any questions. </p> <p> Win </p> <p> **********************<br /> Win Singleton, CRB, e-PRO<br /> <strong>Summit Web Design</strong><br /> (703) 536-7631<br /> <a href="javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(119,105,110,115,64,115,117,109,109,105,116,119,101,98,46,99,111,109)+'?'">wins@summitweb.com</a><br /> <a href="http://Summitweb.InternetCrusade.com">http://Summitweb.InternetCrusade.com</a><br /> an Internet Crusade Approved Vendor<br /> "Custom web site design that gets results!"<br /> ********************** </p>	Win Singleton 3/19/09 8:25 AM	Ronald Gorman 10/15/09 9:07 PM

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