Current Real Estate Market

The current financial sector is obviously creating difficulty for the real estate market. One thing to remember is that all price points are selling, but people have to remember location, location, location continues to play an important part in your decision making process. Talk to your real estate professional and do your homework. There are great properties available right now.

Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate is the desert area's exclusive affiliate of Christie's Great Estates and serves the real estate needs of Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells and La Quinta.

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Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate is the desert area's exclusive affiliate of Christie's Great Estates and serves the real estate needs of Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells and La Quinta.

IPhone information versus other smart phones

Yahoo Finance speaks on the IPhone.
Walt Mossber sizes up the competition.

The iPhone is "the best, most complete smartphone" on the market and clones such as the Samsung Instinct are a poor substitute, says Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-executive editor of AllThingsD.com
That said, Mossberg does not think Apple has won the smartphone wars by any stretch, for the following reasons:

First, the iPhone's touch screen is a "non starter" for many people, which means phones with 'QWERTY' keyboards from Research In Motion, Palm and others will remain in demand.

Second, AT&T is the exclusive service provider in the U.S. and their service is spotty, at best, in many parts of the country. In addition, even people who want the iPhone may be reluctant to pay fees to break an existing contract with another carrier.

Third, as impressive as the iPhone's hardware is, software is the key to smartphone success. Mossberg believes Apple has a chance to turn the iPhone into a platform via the App store, as discussed here. But he certainly isn't discounting competitors from RIM to Nokia to Microsoft and Google, which each have deep pockets and deep software expertise.

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Trina Turk Residential Boutique

Now Open in Palm Springs—The Trina Turk Residential Boutique!Imagine the graphic prints of Trina’s clothing collection in pillows to pop the interiors of your home. The Trina Turk Residential Boutique is located next door to the Trina Turk Apparel Boutique.

Phil Smith of The Art Office designed Trina Turk residential, which is located right next door to our original boutique on N. Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. In addition to the items made with Trina Turk signature prints, you will find a carefully curated selection of beautiful items for the home including Missoni towels, one of a kind handmade vessels from Atwater Pottery, cloisonné lidded jars from Fabienne Jouvin, Trina Turk Candles and more!

Trina Turk Residential
895 N. Palm Canyon Drive

Palm Springs, CA 91802

phone: 760.416.2856

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Jott the newest time saver

At its most basic level, webapp Jott is a voice to text transcription service: you call Jott, leave a message, and Jott transcribes it and emails you or your contacts the text. That alone can capture the big idea that pops into your head on the drive to the office, but Jott can do a whole lot more than send you email. With Jott's built-in links and tools that capitalize on its email-sending abilities, it can give nearly any personal organization system a go-anywhere, add-anything boost. Today we've got a quick primer on how to turn your phone into a ubiquitous capture tool that zaps info into all your favorite organization apps by voice.

For more information there's wonderful information through lifehacker.com at THIS LINK.

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Julius Shulman Exhibit at The Palm Springs Art Museum

The Palm Springs Art Museum

Julius Shulman Exhibition to Debut
February 15th - May 4th, 2008

The exhibition Julius Shulman / Palm Springs will focus on Shulman’s extensive and historically lengthy (70 year) documentation of the modern architectural movement in the Palm Springs area. The spectacular desert landscape provided inspiration to numerous superb architects, whose vision and output created a unique architectural mode in the Southern California Mid-Century Modern movement; and Shulman made it his passion to document these buildings and homes. The exhibition will consist of over 150 photographs. "Julius photographed the rem aining imporant architectural properties in the Palm Springs area and the excitement around those new works is already creating much anticipation.", said Exhibition Curator Michael Stern. The photos are compiled from the holdings of The Getty Museum and Palm Springs Art Museum, as well as private collections.

The Palm Springs Art Museum is located downtown in an architecturally-significant E. Stewart Williams designed building.

For more information, call 760.332.4800 or CLICK HERE.

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"One Night Only"

“One Night Only” will be held on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the McCallum Theatre. The new beneficiary this coming year is Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS).

Michael Childers and a host of other incredibly generous people are working to bring back "One Night Only". It has developed a reputation for delivering a powerful evening of entertainment. This past April, five time Emmy award winner Doris Roberts hosted the best of Broadway and Hollywood, including Stephanie Powers, Andrea Marcovicci, Bruce Vilanch, Sally Kellerman, and numerous other show stopping performers.

I'm working to help them make this the most successful event to date and hope to see you there. Please RSVP to Ken Katz, Event Director, at kkatz@dc.rr.com.

For more information on Jewish Family Service of the Desert, CLICK HERE.

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Modernism Week in Palm Springs

Modernism Week is an annual collaboration between the Modernism Show, Palm Springs Preservation Foundation, Palm Springs Historical Society, Palm Springs Modern Committee, Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Palm Springs Art Museum focusing on design and architecture events and programs in Palm Springs California.

Thursday, February 15 - Saturday, February 24 2008.

An assortment of scheduled events are detailed on the link provided.

To learn more CLICK HERE.

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Discover your carbon footprint

What is a carbon footprint? Basically it is an estimate of how much carbon dioxide we emit through the burning of fossil fuels for activities such as household energy consumption and transport use (e.g. car and plane).

GE has done a great job of creating a site to learn your consumption use.

To learn more CLICK HERE.

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