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

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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.

Get the Atomic Alarm Clock for your computer

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If you want to get more organized, or if you are the type of person why likes to keep track of things such as appointments, birthdays and other events you might be interested in visiting the Atomic Alarm Clock – home page. The atomic Alarm Clock was created to be an advanced replacement for the Windows tray clock.

You can install a copy of the Atomic Alarm clock and use on your desktop as an actual alarm clock, or even as an event reminder. The Atomic Alarm clock is fully customizable. You can set it up to remind you of multiple events, perhaps with a pop up window or by playing a sound or an MP3 file.

Actually it seems that a number of people are using the Atomic Alarm clock as a real alarm clock. Why? Well, I think they are doing so because it’s so easy to customize. You can set it up to play an MP3 at a certain time each morning to wake you up, or it can play any sound that you like. You can also set the clock so that the alarm only works from Monday to Friday and doesn’t wake you up on Saturdays and Sundays when you want to sleep in.

It’s quite a versatile program.

One thing that I like about the Atomic Alarm clock is that you can download over 100 different skins in order to customize the look and feel of the Atomic Alarm Clock.

Here’s some of the skins that you can download:

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If you’d like to try the Atomic Alarm clock you can download clock right here.

The Atomic Alarm Clock comes with multilingual interface support, and you can display the ti for any time zone. Check it out.

Accidently deleted a file? Use active file recovery to get it back

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Have you ever been working in a program and all of a sudden you either go through a virus attack,formatting, or perhaps the power fails and you lose what you were working on? Maybe you’ve just accidentally deleted a file and couldn’t find out how to bring it back because it wasn’t in your Windows recycle bin?

Now, I know for some of you it’s kind of scary to think about tinkering with your computer either to find a file or to fix a problem. How would you like it if I told you that there’s a program out there called “Active File Recovery” that can easily recover deleted files and folders? Even from an already emptied recycle bin?

I’ll bet it sounds pretty good. Am I right? I mean, I bet there isn’t one person out there reading this post that hasn’t accidentally deleted or lost a file in some way at some time or another.

The program is easy to use, and what’s more its also and efficient data recovery tool when you system has crashed and isn’t bootable. I say that because the Active File Recovery software Enterprise installation package comes with a CD/DVD ISO image that you can burn in order to get a bootable CD or DVD with a lightweight version of Windows Vista that will run in RAM. That’s fantastic because well, you can’t fix your computer and recover your data if you can’t even get it to boot for you! Booting up a crashed system is half the battle isn’t it?

Active File Recovery will also allow you to perform Partition recovery. This means that after you’ve had disk partition loss, or format damage to a partition you’ll be able to repair it with Active File Recovery professional. You can also use the program to recover photographs and other media files, even those deleted from flash memory, or data that has been lost due to formatting a memory card.

The standard, professional and Enterprise packages range in price from $29.95 to $99.00. Corporate licenses are also available if you’d like to use this software for your business. All of the products include free technical support and free updates.

Visit the site and take a look at what this software package can do. If you want to thoroughly check this software out before you purchase a copy you may download a demo copy through the main page of the site.

All My Movies – DVD catalog program

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I’ve been asked to do discuss the DVD catalog program All My Movies, and I think this would be a great program for anyone that has a large collection of DVD’s, CDs, VHS tapes and other forms of media that they’d like to keep track of an organize.

The program is a very easy to use DVD and Movie Catalog. Use the program to catalog details of your personal media collection. What I like about the program is that you don’t need to sit and spend hours filling out all the movies details for your catalog. Just give the program a little bit of information such as the movie title and it will automatically download all the details from the internet movie database. All My Movies is even Windows Vista compatible.

All My Movies isn’t just for English language films, it’s actually a multilingual organizer. It supports English, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Belorussian, French, Latvian, Serbian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Danish, Korean, Slovak, Chinese and German languages.

All my Movies supports additional internet movie databases with plugins for the All My Movies program, so you can use it to import details from many different internet movie databases. Want to know more about the various actors in your movie collection? You can look up actors birthdays, biographies and filmographies quickly and automatically.

If you have an extremely large collection you might be interested to know that you can add new DVDS and other media data into the program by using a UPC/EAN barcode. Just enter or scan the barcode numbers and all the information is added automatically.

You can save your collection to PDA’s and other mobile devices if you’d like. Heck, you an even play movies directly from the program so it can be used as a video playlister.

There are so many features I could go on – but if you think this program sounds like something that you could use, or that it might make a great gift for a friend or relative who has a great movie collection go to the site and read more about All My Movies features. You can take a look at screenshots of the software at work on the site too.

If you are migrating over from a competitors movie collector’s software you can get a 25% discount on your purchase.

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