 Andy Rathbone is todays featured real estate industry leader, he began "fiddling around with computers" in the early eighties as a Comparative Literature major at San Diego State University. Because of all the writing involved, he bought a Kaypro 2X computer and a WordStar word processing program. When the professor asked for an eight-page term paper and he could only muster up six, he subtly adjusted the margins of his word processor, squeezing the words into eight pages.
After graduating, Andy began freelancing for a local computer magazine, which had trouble finding writers because most computer "techies" wrote for other "techies" to read, not for beginners. Computer manuals had the same problem; they were aimed at programmers, not beginning users. Since Andy is a writer, not a programmer, he writes books aimed at the general public.
Andy wrote Windows For Dummies in 1992, and as Windows grew more popular, more people began to find his books helpful. Almost fifteen years after Windows For Dummies, first hit the shelves, Andy has more than 15 million books in print. His books have been on many bestseller lists, including the New York Times. In his Interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio he discusses the following real estate advice: Top Tips for Using Technology - Run a spyware checker every week or so because spyware is debilitating a lot of computers now.
- Make sure your hard drive is not overly crowded-offloading excess to an external hard drive is one solution; when a hard drive is about to die, it will slow down and start to make grinding noises; if you hear such noise, stop what you are doing and perform an immediate backup to a portable hard drive.
- If you have more than one computer (e.g., a PC and laptop), look into networking them for ease of sharing information; one computer can also serve as a temporary backup of the other.
In this briefing he also discusses the following real estate tips: - Motivation for PCs the Missing Manual
- Tips for Laptops
- Digital Cameras
- Memory Upgrades
- Backup Strategy
- The Biggest Problem
- Special Sites for Real Estate Pros
- Personal Favorites on the Web
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