Enough talk, time for some demonstrations. In our last post in this series, we covered the rather ho hum (but necessary) basics. In our first review article we discussed whether the iPad was a tool or a toy for real estate. Now we will take a look at the iPad in action touching some real estate related functionality.

First video segment – opening the iPad and launching the CCAR Mobile portal, which we have conveniently added to our home page. The CCAR mobile portal at m.ccartoday.com is a mobile optimized replica of ccartoday.com’s key services designed specifically for mobile devices like the blackberry, iPhone, iPad, etc.

Once we are in the mobile portal, we head into the free ‘Area Demographics’ tool that we offer.

A few notes on the videos in this post. We are using a wireless connection to stream the iPad screen to the laptop this is being written on. At the moment this is the most effective way to capture what you see on the iPad screen. We can’t wait for ‘an app for that!’

As a result of that wireless connection, you will see some ‘lag’ or jerkiness in the screen as it refreshes the content.

Since we are on an iPad, flash will not work. CCAR employs flash on several websites, most noticeably in our listing galleries. While the websites will work, there will be an empty space where the flash content should be. Certain other scripts will not display properly on web pages as well.

Finally, we also see a normal computer mouse cursor on the screen. This is not visible on the iPad normally, it is simply a side effect of displaying the iPad on the computer screen. It does help a bit to show you what we are about to click on as we move around the iPad interface.

Second video clip… Lets take a quick peek at how ccartoday.com (NOT the mobile version) loads on the iPad, as well as a few other services like HOT – HomesOpenToday.com. Note that we are focusing on a listing from volunteer leader and President-Elect Fred Weston, who has taken advantage of the opportunity to augment his listing with an additional 18 property photos. The ability to add as many as 25 additional property pics to your listings is one of CCAR’s latest members only benefits!

More real estate related demonstrations are on the way. Up next… a peek at how to use ccar tools with the cooliris app on the ipad, a more in-depth look at the CCAR Mobile Portal at m.ccartoday.com, and much more.