Mozy (www.mozy.com) helps prevent a real estate professional’s worst nightmare: data loss. After installing Mozy on your PC and configuring it to back up your most critical data, the software automatically copies files to secure Web storage. You can set this to happen once a day, once a week or even as you work.

The price for this peace of mind? If you have less than 2 gigabytes’ worth of data to protect (a definite possibility if it’s mostly Word documents and Outlook records), Mozy won’t cost you a penny. Break the 2GB barrier, and you’ll pay $4.95 per month, which entitles you to unlimited storage space. In both cases, the Mozy software makes it simple to find the files and file types that you want to preserve.

Gmail (gmail.google.com) offers real estate professionals a host of advantages over traditional e-mail, starting with Web accessibility. You can access your account on any computer using any browser. Even better, you can connect to Gmail via your cell phone using either its Web browser or a special Gmail application.

You’ve just captured some walk-through videos of an exciting new property. Now you need an easy way to add them to your Web site so your customers can see the footage. Enter YouTube (www.youtube.com), which lets you upload unlimited videos of up to 10 minutes each, then “embed” them in your site using its familiar player.

All you do is sign up for a free account, then start uploading your videos. If you shot them using a camcorder, you’ll need to import them into a video-editing program first, and then output them again in a YouTube-friendly file format.

Want to make your site stand out from the crowd? Stock it with a mortgage calculator, a Zillow home-value estimator and other handy tools. You don’t need a degree in programming to make this happen; just head to Widgetbox (www.widgetbox.com), home to thousands of “widgets” you can use free of charge.

Why spend money on pricey office software when you can get your work done on the Web? Google Docs (docs.google.com) offers browser-based word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Granted, the interface looks a little stark compared with Microsoft Office, but that’s a small price to pay for such convenience. Google Docs documents can be created, edited, viewed, printed and shared on any computer. That means you can access your files at home just as easily as you can at work.

If you’re looking for a good spot to host your property photos, look no further than Flickr (www.flickr.com). The site makes easy work of storing and displaying photos, and you can’t beat the price: It’s free if you upload less than 100 megabytes’ worth of images per month. If you need more space, you can open a Pro account, affording unlimited storage, for just $24.95 per year.

FREE! KompoZer www.kompozer.net

FREE! Google Page Creator  pages.google.com

FREE!  Florida Association of Realtors® Florida Living Network http://fl.living.net
Supplement your Web site by taking advantage of the free Web page that FAR offers each member on the public Florida Living Network™ site. There is also a free company web page accessible to the Broker.

All you have to do is go to the Florida Living Network (http://fl.living.net).

Click on the "Find a REALTOR®" link at the left hand side of the page. 

In addition to Maps and YouTube which are accessible from the iPhone's home-screen, there are some other great products that were designed especially for your iPhone:

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