Google Maps are a great way to add color and detail to your web pages and blog posts. It’s easy to create your own custom map to highlight the exact places you are discussing using your choice of text and icons.
Continue reading →Buying a house in New Zealand is a different process than buying real estate in the US. We learned some of the differences through research and a few others the hard way. We now know the risks to watch for and resources to use for Americans to make a fully informed home purchase.
Continue reading →We provided an overview of products for manually geotagging and geocoding your photos using online maps, focusing on Geosetter software. Geotagging, or geocoding involves the linking of photos to the place they were taken through latitude, longitude and altitude.
Photos can then be displayed on a map, and become searchable by precise location. It is a great idea for travel shots, but not an easy task for those of us without a GPS.
Here is an idea of what you need to know about overseas shipping. How do you do it? What are the options? What should you be wary of? Before our international relocation, we had a daunting accumulation of stuff and knew we couldn’t move it all, but we didn’t really have a good strategy for determining just what we could take or how to go about it. Our experience will reduce some of the stress in figuring it all out.
Continue reading →Thinking about buying a new hard drive for your computer? Perhaps you want an external drive to back up several machines. You might want to consider network-attached storage, putting the drive on your network.
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