Have you ever passed by a house and wondered what it must cost, what it looks like on the inside, or other real estate details about it? Thanks to HomeSnap, a free app from Washington, D.C. real-estate firm Sawbuck Realty, you can do just that. Whether a home is for sale or not, you simply take a picture of it with your iPhone® (versions for Android and iPad® are coming soon) and in just a few seconds, the HomeSnap app will give you a...

***Compatible with iPhone® 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch® (4th generation), iPad® 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation) and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G.Requires iOS 5.0 or later. ***As soon as there are enough Android devices with a gyroscope out there, expect to see MagicPlan on the Android App Marketplace. The iPhone 4/4S, iPad 2/3 or iPod Touch apps that people create never cease to amaze me. The engineering genius of the developers...

A century ago, the only way to find a business was word of mouth. Then came the telephone book and people relied on advertisements. The internet brought search engines. Now, word of mouth is taking over again. Specifically, the words from the figurative mouths of Siri and Jeannie. The advance of a voice command interface is changing the way people find businesses and real estate will be no exception. In order for companies to be found,...

By this point, we are all used to junk coming at us.  It’s pretty unbelievable the amount of junk mail that still arrives at homes across America.  Our email accounts aren’t much better.  But now, our mobile phones?  What has the world come to? Spam via text messaging used to be pretty uncommon which is primarily because the cost of texts used to be somewhat expensive.  However, over the past few years, text messaging has...