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5 awesome facts you need to know about the OMS photo upload

1) Did you know, you can easily copyright your photos through the OMS. You have the option to watermark your logo or text: http://goo.gl/zowzu 2) The OMS also allows you to upload an unlimited number of photos and automatically resizes them for you during upload time, saving you time and bandwidth. 3) The OMS checks your photo quality to assist you in only uploading high quality photos: http://goo.gl/iVJjH 4) The OMS features a larger photo size compared to other property systems, ensuring better quality images for visitors to your website: http://goo.gl/nK5xr 5) You can easily re-order photos in the OMS, this allows you to select the best photo for your main image on your website

OMS Updated : Photo uploader & Document library

Photo uploader updated A new version of the photo uploader is now available and will download the next time you try to upload photos. The updated version fixes a few issues reported by some users and should also load faster. Document library fix We had isolated instances of users (where they’ve uploaded a large number of files to the document library) reporting errors. This has been fixed.

New AWS Cloud disaster recovery tool (AWS EC2 EBS automated snapshots)

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If you run a big cloud infrastructure like us on Amazon AWS that has to support thousands of clients, you better make sure that you have proper disaster recovery processes in place and that your server disks (AWS EBS volumes) are always backed up, working and have enough space. Through our own experience working with the Amazon AWS environment through the years, we have learned a great deal and can now confidently apply our knowledge into creating a unique AWS Cloud disaster recovery tool.  The aim of this tool is to help minimize against any downtime you may experience with potential AWS zone outages or EC2 failures, and get your systems up in running ASAP.  If you have hands-on experience with Amazon AWS, you will know that this can be a very time consuming task if you have lots of EC2 instances and EBS volumes that you have to recover. PHASE 1 launch Our phase 1 launch is in testing mode and already provides some excellent features to manage a backup set of your EBS volumes. 

Turning property search on its head - industry first: comparative driving time between landmarks and properties for sale and rent

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A while ago we’ve launched our innovative new POI (Point of Interest) search on our property portal MyProperty South Africa . This allows you to find property near popular South African landmarks. We are constantly adding new landmarks and it is starting to gain great usage traction from visitors. The POI search allows you to enter a landmark name in the search area, e.g. school name, shopping mall, police station, hospital or train station name and search for property for sale or rent around that point. Visitors can also drill down from points of interest on properties to find nearby properties. Properties geocoded by agents are used. World first – comparative driving time between properties and landmarks As an industry first (and as far as we can see world first) it also shows you the driving time between the specific landmark and properties. Visitors can even sort properties by nearest driving time. This is quite interesting, because depending on a property location, certain p