6 Essential Privacy Settings for Your Smartphone   How would you feel if you lost your smartphone? It feels like your entire life is on your smartphone. That’s because it’s more than just your everyday tech device: it’s your computer in your pocket.   You use it to communicate with clients, access your transactions, schedule appointments, navigate to showings, and generally manage your business on the go. But just like you lock up your physical office to secure sensitive client information, you must also lock down your digital data. After all, we don’t leave a key under the mat for c ..read more

Florida Realtors’ Tech Helpline Adds Over 20,000 New Members in the Last 90 Days Delivers tech support to five new organizations, now serving over 750,000 Realtors   ORLANDO, Fla., March 20, 2024  — Tech Helpline, real estate’s No. 1 tech support service, reports a growth surge. In the last 90 days, Tech Helpline has added five more Realtor organizations with over 20,000 members, including the Kentucky REALTORS® and the Greater Philadelphia Association of REALTORS®. Tech Helpline is the real estate industry’s No. 1 tech support service, available to nearly half the Realtors in ..read more

Why You Need to Say “Yes” to Multifactor Authentication   Purchasing a home is typically the largest and most significant investment of our lives. It’s a milestone interwoven with personal dreams, aspirations, and an immense amount of confidential information.   Real estate agents, brokers, and their MLSs are more than just facilitators of a home purchase – you are stewards of trust, responsible for managing, protecting, and maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of sensitive information on behalf of buyers and sellers.   Trust remains the core reason most peop ..read more

Spring Cleaning Your Tech: 6 Dos And Don’ts   Would you host an open house with fingerprints on the bathroom mirrors, a dirty carpet, or un-swept floors? Not if you want it to sell!   But how clean is the tech you rely on every day? If you don’t take care of your tech, your tech won’t take care of you.   The debris buildup on your smartphone screen can cause scratches and cracks. Dirt and crumbs that get caught in your computer’s keyboard can cause keys to stick and render it useless. Or worse, debris inside your earbuds can create bacteria or mold, leading to ear infections. &n ..read more

We are thrilled to announce that Form Simplicity and Tech Helpline have been selected as 2024 HW Tech100 Real Estate winners!   We are beyond grateful for the recognition.   This award is not just a testament to the innovation and quality we strive for, but it also reflects the unwavering support and trust you, our amazing community, have placed in us. Every step of the way, your encouragement has fueled our passion and dedication.   Form Simplicity and Tech Helpline were designed with you in mind, aiming to support Real Estate Professionals. A massive THANK YOU t ..read more

AI-powered software for photos. Did you know you’ve probably been using artificial intelligence nearly daily for several years? If you use your smartphone to take photos, you can thank AI for making your pictures look better than ever.   Here are some of the super cool ways AI is powering new smartphone photo features that are helping all your photos look amazing, rivaling what professional photographers can produce with their DSLR cameras:   Transforming night into day: Google’s Night Sight (AI-powered software for photos) Have you ever tried to photograph a property at night and st ..read more

What’s our Best Tech Tip? We live in an age where the hum of technology is as constant as the ticking of a clock. Technology is our silent partner in nearly every daily task: it is everywhere from the moment we silence our smartphone alarms in the morning to the second we power down our laptops at night.   Yet, technology, unfortunately, is not infallible. Glitches and freezes can turn a happy workday into a hectic one. However, there is a surprisingly simple yet often overlooked remedy to many of our technological troubles: properly restarting our devices.   Best Tech Tip: First thi ..read more

Cybersecurity is essential because cybercrime is on the rise. Last year was a record year for phishing: 4.7 million attacks, according to the APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report.   And with the alarming surge in ransomware attacks, such as the one that left one of the largest Multiple Listing Service technology providers in disarray for weeks, the need for more robust digital safety measures is critical.   So, we continue to emphasize the critical importance of implementing proactive cybersecurity measures to safeguard your data and systems.   Whether you’re a tech-savvy agent ..read more

Today, our entire lives – professional and personal – are online, necessitating the need for passwords. Increasing your security steps is now imperative. For Realtors, it’s not just about locking doors after an Open House but also bolting the virtual gateways to invaluable data: yours and your clients.   It’s challenging for anyone to keep track of the password demands of today as it seems nearly everything we access needs a password. Unfortunately, shortcuts can be costly. Using a simple password or a variation of a main password structure is like leaving your doors unlocked, begging hac ..read more

As the gift season is approaching, it’s important to note that technology has become omnipresent in our daily personal and professional lives. Given this, many of today’s gadgets promise to improve efficiency, be fun, and help your well-being.   Here are five top tech gifts for self-indulgence that can help elevate your game, save time, protect you from wasting time, capture fun and memorable moments, and maybe even save your life!   1.      AI tech: A subscription to ChatGPT 4 will cost you about $240 a year or $20 a month, but agents who use this online tec ..read more