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SecondSpin: Trade Used DVDs, CDs & Games

azim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:29:42 +0000

SecondSpin is a popular online marketplace for trading used CDs, DVDs and games. You can buy used merchandise at lower prices from the site with 100% quality guarantee, and sell your own unused CDs and DVDs as well. Sign up on the site to start trading items.

Unlike other online used item marketplaces like eBay, here you can instantly view the trade-in price for your media titles and sell it to the site without waiting.

Apart from the Internet store, merchandise on SecondSpin also comes from its several stores in US and brokers around the country. It has a richer selection of used media merchandise than most of the other online marketplaces.

Features:

Popular Internet marketplace for used CDs, movie DVDs and Games.
Buy used media at lower prices.
100% quality guarantee. Defect rate is less than 1%.
Sell your own unused CDs, DVDs and Games to the site.
Instantly view trade-in price for your merchandise.
Sign up to start trading.

Check out SecondSpin @ www.secondspin.com

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AllCDCovers: Extensive CD Cover Library

kaly — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:36:22 +0000

AllCDCovers is an extensive cd cover library where you can find and download covers for almost any movie, album or game. The site lists around 350.000 covers for 120.000 titles. You can search for covers and browse them alphabetically.

Additionally to downloading covers you can read reviews and view related YouTube videos. Links to trailers, subtitle and torrents are also included.

If you have covers of your own you can upload them and share them with the community.

Features:

Extensive game, move and music cd cover collection.
The site list around 350.000 covers for 120.000 titles.
Search for CD covers and browse alphabetically.
Download covers onto your computer.
In cludes additional links to YouTube videos, torrents, trailers and subtitles.
Similar websites: CoverCreator and PaperCase.

Check out AllCDCovers @ www.allcdcovers.com

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CoverCreator: CD & DVD Cover Maker

kaly — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:12:38 +0000

CoverCreator is an online CD & DVD cover maker that lets you type and illustrate your own CD/DVD covers or booklets and then print them out. It allows you to customize almost any part of the cover, you can create multiple pages, select variety of layout templates, apply different background colors, add text and draw.

The application is free and there is no sign up, just go to the site and start using it.

Features:

CD / DVD cover maker and booklet designer.
Create as many covers as you like.
Customize text, colors and background.
Create multi-page booklets.
Print crated covers.
Free and no sign up.
Similar webtools: PaperCase

Check out CoverCreator @ www.readwritethink.org/materials/cd-dvd

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OurShelf: Online Cataloging Application for CDs, Books & DVDs

azim — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:01:44 +0000

OurShelf is a nice cataloging application which lets you catalog all your personal items (CDs, DVDs, Books etc) online and share this information with others. You can add items to your shelf and organize them by different labels, borrow and lend items with your friends and create and share wishlists.

Browse shelves of other users, find items that interest you and form/join groups with people around similar interests. Sign up to get started.

How it works:

Search for your item online (site searches your item from various online retailers’ websites).
Browse and refine search results by category, find your item among search results and add it to your shelf with one click.
Perform the above operation for all your items

There is a Firefox plugin available. Install it to catalog your personal items from the browser.

Features:

Online cataloging tool for your personal CDs, DVDs, books and other stuff.
Search and add items to your shelf.
Organize different items by labels.
Share, borrow and lend items with your friends.
Create and share wishlists.
Join and form groups with other people around similar interests.
Firefox plugin available.
Free, sign up to get started.
Similar tools: aNobii, BeepMyStuff and more in 5 Ways to Catalog Your Movies Online.

Check out OurShelf @ beta.rshelf.com (via AppScout)

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Blyper: Get Notified On New Track Releases

azim — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:36:46 +0000

If you are a music fan, it’s almost impossible to track new track releases of your favorite artists manually on a regular basis. Blyper, is a web service that does this for you. It lets you add a list of artists and notifies you by email on new song or CD releases.

To set alerts on new track releases first you need to register on the site. Then select how often you want to be notified, add artists or import the artists from your Last.fm account by providing your username and finally pick the type of releases you want to be notified of (albums, singles, compilations). That’s it!

Features:

Track new music releases of your favorite artists.
Get notified by email when they release a new single or a CD.
Import artists from your Last.fm account.
Sign up to get started.
Similar websites: Feedrevolution, Albumreminder, Muspy and Music-Alerts.

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BeepMyStuff: Catalog Movies, Books & Games using Barcodes

kaly — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:36:30 +0000

BeepMyStuff is another web app that lets you create personal library of movies, music, books and games without much effort. The cool thing about this tool is that you do not have to enter your items manually, but only scan item barcodes using your webcam.

BeepMyStuff automatically checks each item on Amazon and adds it to your personal library. And if it’s not on Amazon you can still fill in all the details yourself.

Once you’ve added all the items to your library, you can search them, view them as a list or thumbnails, filter itmes by date added, and see Amazon and user ratings for each of the items.

Features:

Barcode driven personal library of your movies, books and games.
Automatically gets item details from Amazon.
Option to catalog the item manually.
Share your library with friends and see library collection of others.
Free and easy to use.

Check out BeepMyStuff @ www.beepmystuff.com

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PaperCase: Create and Print Paper Sleeves For Your CDs

kaly — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:54:55 +0000

PaperCase is online tool where you can create and print your own paper CD sleeves using images from any AOL Music album page (for music CDs) or Netflix DVD page (for movies).

Here is how it works:

1. Drag provided bookmarklet link to your Firefox toolbar or add it to your favorites in IE.
2. Visit the page of the album or movie you want to get paper CD case for.
3. Click on the bookmarklet and go to File -> Print preview. When satisfied click on “Print”.

Features:

Print out CD sleeves using content from AOL Music and Netflix DVD pages.
Create and print as many paper CD cases as you like. No sign up needed.
Coming soon: Option to use images from Picasa Web Albums.
Another website that offers paper CD templates is PaperCDCase reviewed.

You might also want to check out tutorial video showing how to fold sleeves for your CDs.

Check out PaperCase @ www.liquidmongoose.com (via downloadsquad.com)

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Thrift Hunting : Compare Prices for CD, DVD, Books by UPC or ISBN

Aibek — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:45:19 +0000

Are you a modern day treasure hunter? ThriftHunting.com is an online community for the modern day treasure hunter who enjoys the thrill of looking for valuable items at thrift stores, garage sales, yard sales, etc. Using Thrift Hunting UPC/ISBN lookup utility you can compare prices for CD, DVD, Books by UPC or ISBN.

The price lookup utility uses an item’s UPC or ISBN to search for the minimum prices as listed on various websites (Amazon, Half.com, PriceGrabber). The search results are returned and displayed in an easy to read table that allows you to compare prices and basically see if an item is a great buy or not.

What is a UPC (Universal Product Code) or ISBN (International Standard Book Number)? Well it can be thought of as the barcode number associated with a certain item or product. Since most products have a barcode associated with them essentially any item can be easily looked up by simply typing or scanning in the UPC (or ISBN) and submitting it to be processed.

Feature:

Retrieve the minimum price from several websites using an item’s UPC or ISBN.
Contains four search modes (single item, batch, mobile, sms) for looking up an item.
Search as many items in any of the versions (single item, batch processing, mobile, sms) as you like.
Results returned and displayed in an easy to read table.
Results clickable and will take you to the listing of that item on the associated website.
Download and save your table of searched items for your records.
Mobile version: stripped down version of the same utility but for easy viewing on mobile devices.
Sound notifications for mobile devices (just enter the number and listen to see if an item is a good buy).
SMS feature: Text an item’s UPC or ISBN to hunter@thrifthunting.com and receive a text message back with the results.

Note: Use of the “hunter” utility on ThriftHunting.com is free but some features are limited to upgraded members once the trial period expires (don’t worry there will always be a free version for processing items, it just might not have all the bells and whistles). Also note that for the “SMS” feature standard text messaging fees may apply depending on your mobile service contract.

Check out Thrift Hunting @ www.thrifthunting.com

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PaperCdCase: Print a Paper CD Case

kaly — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:34:54 +0000

Print ready PDF files which can be folded to create a CD cases. The cover can show list of CD tracks, a mailing address, and some graphics. Users can also check the database to see if someone used PCC for the same CD before. In case it finds someone then save yourself some typing and let it fill-in the list of tracks automatically. If that’s too much of a hassle, you can just leave it blank and use it as a disposable CD cover.

Extras

- Customization: Add title, list of tracks, mailing adress etc.
- For folding directions, see the about section.

Check out PaperCdCase @ (www.papercdcase.com)

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SwitchPlanet: Switch CDs, DVDs, Games and Books

Aibek — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:58:16 +0000

SwitchPlanet is a cool marketplace where you can switch (or trade) used DVDs, CDs, Video Games and Books. Unlike Amazon or eBay, SwitchPlanet is totally FREE and has it’s own currency (SwitchBucs). They idea behind SwitchPlanet is to provide a quick way to trade stuff you have to get the stuff you want. You can either exchange items directly or sell it for certain number of SwitchBucs. Once you accumulate some SwitchBucs you can go and get whatever you want from other members.

SwitchPlanet Features

Active user-base and very rich item catalog.
Browse marketplace items by category (Comedy, Animations, Music, Documentary, Cult Movies, etc.)
Browse items by Most Wanted, Most Switched, Most Available, and Newest.
One SwitchBuc is equivalent to 0.60 USD.
Completely FREE: No transaction, sign-up or listing fees.
Need to know more? Check out SwitchPlanet FAQ section, it has everything you may want to know.

SwitchPlanet introduction video

Update: The site is no longer online

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