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This is the smallest scanner I’ve ever seen

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

Do you remember how when scanners first started coming out they were quite large? I’ve still got my first scanner and while I don’t have it’s exact measurements handy it was almost two feet long by close to a foot wide. That’s huge compared to this new Duplex scanner that I just got a good look at.

The Duplex Scanner – Scanshell 3000DN is perhaps the smallest scanner that I’ve ever seen. It only weighs 17oz/475g which is just over a pound. I think it would be perfect for anyone who either has a small workspace, or for those who take their work on the road or travel for business regularly.

Not only is it small and therefore highly portable, it’s also a high-speed duplex scanner. It can simultaneously capture both sides of a document while scanning. It also offers high image quality capture.

The scanner uses a high speed USB 2.0 standard interface so no external power supply is necessary.

Honestly I can imagine people who’s work takes them out of the office frequently – realtors, contractors, sales agents and so on, using this new Scanshell scanner.

Check it out!





Filed Under: Computers, Cool stuff, Shopping, Supplies, Web and Technology Tagged With: business, Duplex Scanner, high speed, new, On the Road, portable, quality, scan, scan both sides of document, Scanshell, scanshell 3000DN, simultaneous scan, small scanner, small workspace, Speed, travel, USB 2.0, work

Flipswap allows merchants to offer credit on cell phone trade-ins

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

Have you heard of Flipswap? It’s a new universal buy-back program for cell phones. Business owners can visit the Flipswap Inc. website and sign up for the service.

All business owners need to do is set up the program on a computer that has internet access and they are ready to begin using Flipswap.

The Flipswap program allows merchants to offer rebates to their customers who want to trade in their current cellphone. Presumably the customer will be trading in their cell phone in order to purchase a brand new one from the store. Win win – the business offers a service that makes their customer happy, and if all goes well they make a sale when a customer purchases a new mobile phone.

The merchant will be able to use the web based software to look up guaranteed quotes for the mobile phone that their customer wants to trade in. The software works like a blue book and gives a trade-in value for any phone – in any condition.

Once the merchant knows the trade in value of the phone they can issue a store credit to their customer.

Flipswap also provides their clients with pre-paid shipping labels so they make it easy for merchants to send used phones to the Flipswap warehouse where the old phones will be refurbished and used domestically, abroad, or recycled. Naturally Flipswap also reimburses the merchant for the trade in value that the merchant passed on to their customer.

If you own a store and you sell mobile phones look into the Flipswap service. It sounds like a fantastic idea to me.

Filed Under: Internet, Sales and Marketing, Services, Software, Web and Technology Tagged With: business, computer, Flipswap, flipswap.com, merchants, mobile tradein program, offer, offer store credit, reimburse clients, shipping, Software, trade in cell phone, website

The Winnie The Pooh Store – a collectors dream

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

Almost every child receives a teddy bear as a gift when they are a baby, and some children end up with collections of teddy bears and soft toys that they continue to build upon well into adulthood.

One of our close friends is a teddy bear collector. She’s actually devoted two whole rooms of her large house to her collection as it’s just that huge. She must have more than 1000 bears of all sizes!

If you are a collector of Teddy Bear and or Winnie The Pooh related products, or perhaps would like to purchase a Winnie the Pooh bear gift for a small child and encourage a child’s love of all things teddy bear, you might be interested in visiting Beartoday.com.

Bear Today specializes in traditional teddy bears by Steiff and Gund and carries the whole Winnie The Pooh collection of Teddy Bears, soft toys and games. Bear Today has offices in both the USA and the UK.

I’ve been a Winnie the Pooh fan since childhood, but surprisingly I don’t believe that I ever had a Winnie The Pooh teddy bear. Perhaps it’s time I got one? I’m sure kids today love Winnie The Pooh teddy bears and his companions Pigglet, Tigger, Eeyore and other characters that are scattered throughout the classic animated shows and books as much as I did when I was young and in fact, if I must confess, still do today.

If you visit beartoday.com you’ll find that you can purchase the whole line of licensed Winnie The Pooh products. You can find classic and vintage Winnie The Pooh items on the site. I’ve found the prices range to be quite reasonable, and the products are all high end and of the highest quality made by respectable and well known “teddy bear” manufactures such as Gund.

You’ll also find that Bear Today carries other classic teddy bear collectibles such as Paddington bears, as well as giftware, stationary, greeting cards, birthday cards, posters, books and other items.

I’m actually quite amazed at the expanse of their collection. Not only can you find quality Winnie The Pooh products, but you can also find items from Humphreys Corner, Max and Ruby, Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, Beatrix Potter, Disney and many others.

Just browsing through the collection brought back great childhood memories of all the things I used to love when I was young.

Visit the store if you need gift ideas for a baby, child or a bear collector.

Filed Under: Gifts, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: baby, beartoday.com, Beatrix Potter, Birthday, birthday cards, books, children, classic, collectible, collection, collector, Disney, Dora the Explorer, Eeyore, friends, Games, gift, Gift ideas, giftware, greeting cards, Gund, high quality, Humphreys Corner, kids, licensed, Max and Ruby, Paddington bears, Pigglet, posters, quality, Sesame Street, soft toys, stationary, Steiff, Teddy Bear, teddy bear collector, Tigger, vintage, Winnie The Pooh

Adding video content to more of our sites

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I’m totally loving The News Room. See the post I wrote below about it.

I’ve been going over the News Room site and I found some great video of Paris Hilton going to jail that I put up on Celebrity Scoop. I can really see having a daily entertainment video feature on my celebrity website.

Now I’m going through the site to see if I can find items that Chris can use on Odd Planet (ie weird news) or his music and guitar related site Guitar Licks.

The content that we can put in our sites by using the News Room is fantastic. I’m so happy I joined the site.

Before I go hog wild on this let me ask you something:

If you visit a website that has video on it are you as likely to watch the video if it appears to be something that interests you as you might be to read a plain text post?

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Recreation, Services, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: add video, celeb, celebrity, celebrity scoop, Chris, Entertainment, guitar, interests, Join, news, news room, odd planet, read, Video, visit, watch, website

Add current news video and feeds to your post and make money

June 4, 2007 by Tricia

I just signed up with a site called The News Room. This website allows website owners to publish news content on their sites. Not only does The News Room provide content that you can use to enhance your posts, but it also allows you to earn some money just by using the service.

So how do you make money by using The Newsroom? It’s simple really. Just sign up for the service and then browse through the current news listings until you find news that’s relevant to your site, or find a piece that is something you’d like to post about and add a feed or video to your article.

CPM (cost per thousand) starts at $1 which means that for every thousand views you’ll be paid a dollar – at the very lowest, for the content that you chose to provide on your site. You might also be interested to know that the payout for placing a video feed on your site is $4 per CPM. This payout is excellent compared to many other affiliate type programs, and what’s more, you’ll be adding content to your site that will enhance your articles.

One of the really cool things about The News Room is that if someone visits your site and they like the news story that you’ve posted they can take a copy of it right from your site. That’s called Mashing. You’ll make some money when they Mash a story from your site too.

For example, I decided to post this news video in this post to demonstrate to you how you can use news content in your articles, and to show you how the story can be mashed from my site.

You know that artist that gets large groups of people to pose naked for photographs in public places? Well he did it again. If you watch the video I don’t think you’ll find anything offensive on it – naked body parts have yellow dots on them.

Do you see that Mash symbol? Well, if you want to put this content on your site too, you can just Mash it.

How does mashing work? The diagram that I’ve included below shows how a person can make money when a great news story is shared from site to site:

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There’s yet another bonus to this program:

I’m not sure how this works, but there’s a loyalty program that allows those who use the site to provide content on their own websites a chance to win prizes such as vacation, electronics and even cars.

When I first signed up I spent some time on the site trying to find out exactly how to get the video on my site. It’s simple really. As I said earlier, just browse through the sites content, find something that you want to add to your site, decide if you want just the video news story, a full feed of the section you’re in, a text story or even make up your own feed of news stories then hit the Mash button and follow the instructions. Easy.

There are hundreds of thousands of news stories to choose from and all are fully licensed new stories from major content providers such as Reuters, Associated Press and so on.

Give it a try. There’s lots of great news content available and you can earn money by adding it to your site. Start by mashing the video that I placed in this post if you like.

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