Innovations

For years, we’ve told Appraisers to customize their XSite pages to get better search engine rankings. And for years, this approach has worked for appraisers who do it. Even so, may appraisers don’t believe they can effectively customize their content, so they don’t try. This spring, we’re introducing a solution to that problem. Click to view..

I’ve always personally been a believer in DISTO Laser Meters. They’re at least twice as fast as a tape, and extremely accurate (within 1/16th of an inch). Click to view..

We talk to more appraisers every day than anyone, anywhere. We know your tech problems, marketing challenges, PC skills, and everything in between. It’s our job. My job is to help make yours easier. Click to view..

One of the most affordable ways for appraisers to stay efficient while away from their desk is a netbook. Click to view..

Our DaVinci Desktop sketching uses many of the shortcuts found in older sketching software, and makes upgrading from your old program virtually painless. Click to view..

Any appraiser who has fallen out of love with their clipboard, or may be looking to cheat, needs to pay particular attention to our latest field data gathering and sketching app, DaVinci for iPhone and iPod Touch (and soon for Apple’s new iPad as well). Click to view..

TOTAL 2010 Standard has debuted as the all new sixth generation of our formfilling products. When we first posted the free labs release of what we’d “codenamed” Armstrong on a la mode labs, appraisers asked us how TOTAL 2010 was different from WinTOTAL Aurora. After all, we don’t create new versions from scratch for nothing. Click to view..

We are supremely proud of TOTAL 2010. Not because it’s the result of ace programming. No, we’re proud of it because it’s the result of listening to our customers and those who aren’t our customers... yet. Click to view..

If you’re in the market for a new smartphone, June is going to be a big month for you depending on your carrier. AT&T and Sprint are offering the new iPhone and Palm Pre, respectively, but Verizon and T-Mobile may very well have some interesting offerings of their own. So what can you expect? Click to view..

Unless you follow tech news, it may come as a surprise to you that the next version of Windows is almost ready for prime time.  Click to view..

DaVinci, our sketching and field data gathering program, is one year old this month. In one short year we’ve seen appraisers across the country adopt the new DaVinci platform to save money and make their lives easier. It’s been pretty amazing to watch the rapid adoption over the year. Click to view..

As has been mentioned repeatedly throughout this edition of AppraisalPress, 2009 will bring many changes to the appraisal industry. One of those changes will be the release of the sixth generation of WinTOTAL, code named Armstrong Standard. Click to view..

Ready to go paperless but don't know where to start? Here are a few tips. Click to view..

It makes virtually no difference to us whether you use the fourth generation WinTOTAL Athena, or fifth generation Aurora. But it does pay to know what the other roughly 75% of WinTOTAL users have available to them in Aurora to help make their job easier, save money and help with marketing that Athena can’t. Click to view..

Upgrade to DaVinci Desktop Pro for only $23 and convert all your old sketches to DaVinci. Click to view..

In November of 2007, we revealed DaVinci as the newest member of our product line. Since that announcement, thousands of appraisers across the country have downloaded and installed DaVinci, making it their primary sketcher for report creation. We’re thrilled with the adoption and usage of the product. Click to view..

As we’ve reported in previous editions of AppraisalPress, progress on the sixth generation of WinTOTAL, codenamed Armstrong, is well under way. And even in these early stages, it’s already earned the Certified for Windows Vista™ designation. Click to view..

In the May issue, our story “Stealing your signature is easy” opened a lot of eyes and garnered a ton of feedback. Many readers told us they were surprised to learn that PDFs can be easily hacked, and that their data and signature can be lifted or altered easily. And many commented that they’d never considered the notion that a “digital signature” is really nothing more than a picture with no intelligence and no way of being verified. Click to view..

Our April issue touched off a firestorm of debate regarding the “chain of custody” of an appraisal, USPAP signature mandates, and more. Here, we’re going to look at solutions. Click to view..

Now that you've got a tablet PC, there's a plethora of very cool and inexpensive add-ons that will make your life much easier. Click to view..