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Great User Experiences Aren’t Just for Web Sites 26 Jul 2013 | 09:51 pm
As CRT’s User Experience Designer, I’m tasked with making things easy to use and intuitive. When it comes to designing Web sites and apps, a large marker of success is figuring out what’s primary (and...
OK, Glass – My Experience as a Glass Explorer 4 Jun 2013 | 01:33 am
The following post was written by Mark Scheel, Glass Explorer #117. About a year ago, I had one of those experiences where something bad turned into something unexpected and good. I was at Google I/O,...
REpurposedApps is Live 14 May 2013 | 05:57 pm
Hello there. It’s been a few weeks. We’ve been busy and are really excited to release REpurposedApps into the wild. This project was built as a tool for members to recommend apps that they use and add...
Green Roofing Breathes Easier 25 Apr 2013 | 06:35 pm
This concrete roofing tile includes an embedded catalyst in the upper portion of the roof tile that acts like the catalytic converter on your car. The catalyst speeds up oxidation in the presence of s...
On Earth Day, Consider Becoming a Green REsource Council Designee 22 Apr 2013 | 09:18 pm
It’s Earth Day today and all this week, we are going to be covering sustainability topics. What better way to kick off the celebration than by participating in NAR’s Green REsource Council? As CRT loo...
A Cone, A Ball, and A Puck: The Shapes of Things to Come in Alternative Energy 19 Apr 2013 | 07:07 pm
One of our new charges in CRT is to delve deeper into sustainable technologies and see how they may have practical applications in real estate. We’re constantly looking for new and exciting things tha...
On Being Responsive: Part 1 – An Overview of Responsive Web Design 18 Apr 2013 | 01:37 am
Note: This is part 1 in a series that will be ongoing in the coming weeks. This initial article is pretty long, but there’s really no way around that, as we dive into some of the concepts and make Res...
Life after Google Reader 10 Apr 2013 | 07:03 pm
A few weeks ago Google stunned many people by announcing that they would be shutting down Google Reader on July 1st, 2013. For those of us who’s information diet lives and breathes by RSS, this is a ...
The Pi Emerges in Real Estate 5 Apr 2013 | 09:58 pm
If you have seen any of my presentation over the last year, you know that I reference the Raspberry Pi as an interesting piece of technology. For a very low cost (fully loaded less than $90), you can ...
Creating E-Mail Trails with Node.js 22 Mar 2013 | 08:10 pm
Messaging, voice-mails and face-to-face meetings are all useful types of communication but there is still a place for e-mail, especially if you are creating a record of something. In this post, I will...
