Buy Certified Pre-Owned Devices From Gazelle

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I was going through Gazelle's website and came across interesting information that I thought you'd find interesting.

Remember the Motorola RAZR? That was actually the first trade-in that Gazelle accepted. Shortly thereafter, Apple released the iPhone 3G, which created the first generation of obsolete phones (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, anyone?). Since then, Gazelle has paid out more than $200 million to customers for their devices!

Although there are a number of options for purchasing pre-owned smartphones and tablets online, I know first-hand that there are key things that Gazelle offers that helps ensure you won't waste your time or money buying a gently-used device. For instance:

• Gazelle performs a 30+-point inspection on all their devices (iPhones, Galaxy phones, and iPads), which guarantees that every feature of the device is tested and is of the highest quality before it's sold to you. This is also backed by a 30-day return policy.
• Because Gazelle Certified devices mean no contracts or strings attached, you can upgrade your device at up to 40% less than buying a new one and avoid being tied to an expensive two-year contract that you might not need. You can keep your carrier, or go with a new one. The choice is yours.
• You can also easily trade-in your used iPhone, iPad, iPod, MacBook, AppleTV, and other smartphones and smart devices to Gazelle for cash in three easy steps.
  
  Step 1: Select your gadget from a list of options on Gazelle's "Trade-In" page, answer a few questions, and then Gazelle provides you with an offer for your device.
  
  Step 2: For items worth $1 or more, it's free to ship your device to Gazelle. Once your trade-in is received, the device is inspected to make sure its condition matches your evaluation.
  
  Step 3: Payment. If the device matches your description, Gazelle will pay you in the form of a check, an Amazon.com gift card, or via PayPal. Payment takes about a week once Gazelle receives your device.

Have you made your choice? Buy your next smart device through Gazelle Certified

If you want to sell your old phone or device and get a fair, cash price for it, Gazelle is the safest, easiest, most reliable way to go. And if you want to upgrade your device without having to pay retail rates or deal with a poor-quality purchase, make your life easy and shop Gazelle Certified.  This is the place where you can buy Certified pre-owned devices from Gazelle.

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Review - Pro Tavel Planner App

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

When embarking on a trip, you don't just buy a ticket out of whim, pack your luggage and head to the airport or hit the road.  There is more than meets the eye when planning a trip.

Trips are hectic as they are fun. There are always the planning, the budgeting, the choosing of destination, the selection of accommodations, the planning or the itinerary, the maps, the routes to take, the souvenirs to buy, and all the managing of that one single trip can be very stressful. And a trip is not worth having when you are worrying!

Thank goodness for apps to help us with that! The ever handy Pro Travel Planner helps speed things up. With this app, you can have all those worries disappear in a jiffy, since its an all-in-one package.

Features:

Manage your travel buddies' list
You can track their RSVP, real-time statuses and their contribution in the whole trip. You can also text, call them easily in a single touch.

Plan your all your trip in one place
Manage your lodging, transportation details, places to visit and where to eat. This feature also allows you to automate everything so it makes planning easy as it can trigger auto-alerts of pending tasks.

Integrated with IOS map
It has updated maps that you can use you when you travel. You can search for places of interests and has 3 types of view: Standard, Hybrid and Satellite views.

Ability to control your budget
This is a great app to keep your budget on track. You don't get to overspend as it provides a real-time status of the expenditures.

Manage your packing list
It is loaded with an intensive packing list so you and your travel buddies do not miss anything.

You can collaborate, sync and delegate tasks
Don't want to plan the whole trip alone? The collaboration, sync and delegation features allow you to assign tasks to your travel buddies and be updated with their contribution too.


All these features are made more powerful because you can customize them and the trip data of your planned trip can also be exported to Google spreadsheet or in PDF format.

This app is only for iPhone and iPad as it runs in IOS.

My recommendation:

I am from a family of travelers and sometimes, it can be overwhelming to plan a trip for all of us. Sometimes, my in-laws join us too and it can be daunting, to say the least. I have to make sure that all I have planned for and painstakingly coordinated for several months will not fall into cracks. An app like this Pro Travel Planner is the best app a traveler like myself can have and use.

If you travel a lot and always on the go, this is a great app to use.

It can be downloaded from the iTunes app store for $4.99.


This app is brought to you by Zysco.


I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Talking Anya Dress Up and Pet Puppies App Review

I am getting bored now seeing apps of angry or flapping birds being played by almost everyone in the planet. Even kids know those games but what they don't know, there are other apps out there that can be more fun than those angry and flapping birds.

Finally, an app for little girls have been developed so they can enjoy something wholesome, fun and engaging.  Girls will love this fun app called Talking Anya Dress Up and Pet Puppies for many reasons. I got hooked playing with it too and I truly understand why little kids will enjoy playing this game. The game has many features which young and creative girls will be happy to take advantage of. Here are the highlights of the game:


Dress up fun

Anya can be dressed up with many, many choices of cute little dresses for various seasons. She can be a fairy, bunny or even a bee. You can even dress her up for Christmas with matching antlers and nose!

Talk, sing, dance, record, and other interactive reactions

You can make Anya sing, dance and she will even record your voice when you talk to her. The game also has realistic reactions feature, for example, tap her belly and she will be tickled, tap her feet and she will dance, touch her nose and she will make a funny face, talk to her and she will repeat what you say and tap the maracas from the menu and she will play them and lastly, tap her hair and she will tell you, "Don't mess up my hair."


Game within a game and play with a player feature

You can also play "pop the bubbles" with Anya or heart, catch the falling flowers and hula-hoop. You can also play this game with another player who has Talking Anya Dress Up and Pet Puppies app installed in their iPad, iPod or iPhone gadgets.

Care for Anya

You can feed her cupcakes and strawberries. But she prefers strawberries as they are healthier choice!

Augmented reality

Make her play in your own room by clicking on the feature on the menu.


5 Adorable puppies to play with

Aside from playing with cute little Anya, you can also play with her 5 cute and adorable puppies. You can hug, feed and teach them tricks.

The app is loaded with super fun activities and features girls will surely love. Talking Anya Dress Up and Pet Puppies is the only 3D dress up doll with pets in the App store. This game is free and can be downloaded from the App store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/talking-anya-dress-up-pet/id435890283?mt=8.


The game requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. To know more about this adorable and fun app, please visit the developer's site - Sprite Lab.

OkHello - A Useful, Fast And Fun App in iPhone

Technology has really brought people together in many ways imaginable that was not done in the past. Before the onset of smartphones, tablets, wifi, cellular networks and the likes, people would really make an effort to communicate to their loved ones through the conventional and time consuming ways. It's a different ball game now and I am glad to be able to experience all that.

I was  a Skype user before. I liked that better than the other available messenger-like programs which proliferated the internet few years ago. However, with the advent of smartphones and other hi-tech gadgets, other more advanced, more fast and definitely more user-friendly apps sprouted for every one to use. And I am very happy to try one - OkHello.

OkHello is an iPhone app which is a combination of Whatsapp, Skype and Facebook Chat all together. It is a compatible iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. It requires iOS 5.0 or later and is optimized for iPhone 5. The good thing about this app is that it is simple, not very cluttered in terms of design and so easy to use. I didn't have to use a manual or help to navigate the interface.

Installing the app can be done from iTunes. You can use it right away after installation. The sign in is quite easy. You're given 2 options, 1) using your Facebook account or 2) create a new account to use. I choose to use my Facebook account. Viola! It only took me less than 2 minutes to complete the process, including the input of the 4-digit code that the app will send to the number you registered.
Easy!

After all those steps, I managed to start with the chat. My daughter invited me and she created a private room for us to chat in. I also noticed that if you don't use any picture for your profile, the app assigns cute characters like in my case, a friendly and chubby ghost.

Typing and sending texts, videos and even pictures was fast. The only caveat my daughter was telling me was the fact that if your iPhone is the older kind like the first generation iPhone 3G, the video chat won't work. It's designed for the higher model types of iPhone.

One thing we found very fun to use about this app is that, you can link it to Emoji. It's another independent app most youngsters use to add funny faces and symbols in their chat message. I haven't tried it in conjunction with other independent apps for iPhone except for the Emoji to make our conversation lively, funky and totally fab!

The only suggestion I can think of to make this app more fun and engaging (not that it isn't fun as it is already!) is to make it available for use across other platforms not just the IOS. Include Android as well as there are plenty of people using this environment. The more the happier, right?

I still like the app all in all because it's very easy to use, quick processing and simple. For someone who is not as techie as myself, I prefer apps like OkHello because I don't have to struggle navigating it and using the functions.

Lastly, it is FREE! What more can you ask for? I love this app!  If you have downloaded it already, do enjoy it and share the app and connect right away with your family and friends.

Please visit this site for more info:  https://itunes.apple.com/app/id632994162

The Birthday Boy

It's my husband's 42nd birthday today. I am quite surprised that for once, we are not throwing any lavish party this time. We just had a simple family dinner at home. We ordered from one of our favorite restaurants and decided to stay home and enjoy each other's company.

My daughter and I presented our small gift to him a while ago. I just love the look in his face when he saw his birthday gift. It's simple but very functional. We bought him an iPad/iPhone flash disk. It's the first time I saw the product and ever since he got hooked with Apple products, our gifts have revolved around that.

He's tinkering with his iPad/iPhone flash now as I write this. I can't help but smile because he just appreciates anything you give him no matter how big or small. To him, it's always one of the best gifts he has ever received for his special day.

Happy Birthday honey! God bless and May you have more healthy and happy celebrations of life!

iPhone Applications

The iPhone is such a versatile mobile/smart phone. You can do so many things and download plenty of applications which suit your lifestyle and preference.

I have recently discovered so many functional applications I can use in line with my work and other personal requirements. Those applications are under productivity category. There are more in the Apple App store than just the productivity category. 

You can browse through the various categories in your iPhone's app store and search for free apps if you prefer to not pay. Not only that, some apps have trial offer so you can try them first before you decide to purchase them.

I am fond of the games and other lifestyle apps you can find in the iPhone app store. Although my iPhone is a second hand from my hubby, I try to weigh things first before I download an app. Not all these applications will be used regularly so I only download and use the ones I think will make my life more fun.

So, if you have an iPhone, iPad or even an iPod, check the myriad of choices in your app store and see what you can download for your personal and professional use.

New iPhone 5 Coming Soon!

My husband just gave me his old 3G iPhone because he bought an iPhone 4 only to realize that there will be a release of the iPhone 5 this fall.

I am a bit sad because my husband hasn't gotten used to his new iPhone 4 and a new one will come out very soon. I even haven't synched the old iPhone he gave me to customize it according to my preferences.

I instantly checked the veracity of the new iPhone 5 release and true enough, I read some articles already circulating in the world wide web that the new iPhone will be sleeker and lighter than the iPhone 4 release. Sources also indicate that the camera will be upgraded to 8 megapixels! That will be a superb smart phone which makes the other digital cameras pale in comparison.

So, with bated breath I will wait for the new iPhone 5. I won't buy it but will be curious of the design and features as opposed to the earlier releases.

All I Want For Christmas...

I know, there is still recession and money is scarce and the budget is so tight that buying myself an iPhone will be a lucrative "want." Hey, I can dream, right?

Ever since the iPhone came out of the market, I have been dreaming about owning one. I do have iPod Touch and the 1st gen of iPod but nothing beats the features of the iPhone. Imagine having an iPod and mobile phone in one? That's a great deal! Apart from the great features, there are plenty of iphone accessories to choose from like the arm band phone holder which will be very helpful during my running session. I am keen to have one. Maybe not this Christmas but that is all I want. Oh yes, add world peace to that!