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Computer Hardware & ISO Standards January 26, 2008

When it comes to the top end of the market in computer hardware, I start to get a little lost. I wasn’t in school when they were handing out classes in embedded computer boards….in fact when I was in school they wern’t even handing out classes in computers. Back in 82 the word PC stood, not for Personal Computer, nor even political correctness. No, PC had something to do with the distance you were allowed to get within a member of the opposite sex!

Back to computers… The ISO 14443 is the industry standard for  for contactless proximity cards operating at 13.56 MHz in up to 5 inches distance. Now thats a mouthful… but as it relates to CPU boards or computer on module that fit into many varying solution boards it is taken as value.

Maybe I should have stayed with the rules relating to sexual conduct at school in the eighties. reading this back either starts putting me to sleep or at this time of night, just plain confuses me…

I must be getting old!

Games, games and More Free Games January 25, 2008

I think I just missed the whole gaming thing. When I was at an age….although these days it seems that any age is game playing age…. the industry had moved from Space Invaders to Galaxian and PacMan…I was really good at Galaxian! Anyway, this short-lived game-playing frenzy wasn’t really as cool as it is now and so for Playstation I substituted play….action……with girls!, real live ones!!

These days, Free online games are all the rage. You dont need the expensive equipment or have to pay for the actual games. The list of games that you can play is endless and although ‘doing it in your bedroom has never been so much fun’ had a much more intense meaning in ‘my day’, dont knock it until you’ve tried it!

Action games….the doble entendre’s are getting too much to handle… Retro Games…you can find them all at online-games-zone.com.

Its all absolutely free and with nothing better to do in your bedroom alone it will give you something to try your hand at….without the need for laundry services!!

Costa Blanca Property Visitors Hits Highs January 18, 2008

As you probably have read, we like to keep you up-to-date with things in the Spanish Property market. 2007 was not a good year for a lot of agents and many have fallen by the wayside in the flat property sales market.

As we start 2008 there are signs for optimism as AMLA, The MLS dealing with Spanish property for sale has announced record visitors for the first two weeks of the year.

Costa Blanca Property and especially Moraira property and Javea property have shown double-digit increases in visitors.

The proff of the pudding though is whether these visitors or ‘browsers will turn into buyers. It was confidence in the global mortgage market that made purchasers wary in the second half of 2007. Many came to look but left without purchasing. With interest rates in both the USA and possibly UK on the decline there may now be confidence returning to investors looking to cash in on purchases at the perveived ‘bottom’ of the market cycle. 

More Flat Fee MLS

As mentioned previously in an article on this blog MLS listings are now starting to be offerred by agents on a flat fee basis effectively giving owners access to the MLS through the back door. One such service is operating in Georgia. Flat fee Georgia MLS listings mean that it you were thinking of selling your property as FSBO but want to list it on the MLS…now you can.

The Agent is basically selling a 1 point service giving you access to what used to be the bastion of the Real Estate Agent. Whether this is a case of hard times influencing the market or a move in trends due to a fluid expansion of the ever-changing market is yet to be seen.

If more MLS offers start to pop up then there could be a rush for market position.

MLS The Changing Face of Real Estate Listings January 16, 2008

It had to happen at sometime. Maybe it was the downturn in the Real Estate Market that has shown that the power of the internet is starting to usurp the value of the Real Estate Agent service. Whichever is true, the Flat Fee MLS has emerged and is here to stay.

The Flat Fee MLS is a merger of ideas, taking the ability to list on a property on the MLS with the FSBO method of an individual property owner selling their house without a Real Estate Agent. MLS listings have  in recent years always been the bastion of the agents. The increase in internet use has meant that to get good exposure for a property then an MLS listing was almost essential.

Now we are seeing the emergence of brokers ’selling their birthright’ for a flat fee, allowing the individual the access to the MLS through their brokerage but not offering any other service.

In hard times  it is something that may spread!