PixeHome For Buyer: Shop Home With Confidence

(PRWEB) December 25, 2011

Greater Chicago, IL: Rcursion LLC is proud to announce the launch of PixeHome For Buyer, a mobile app for helping home buyers in house hunting process. The company has leveraged its proprietary view technology in mobile application, and crafted an innovative solution to solve a few specific problems faced by home buyers.

For most people, buying house is one of the biggest investments in life. Home buyers do research on real estate market, available home sales, and visit many houses. But, alas, the more houses a buyer visit the more difficult it becomes to remember all the houses. How does the buyer remember the appearance of the first house?s kitchen when he is visiting the 10th house? It just does not make sense to leave it to fleeting memory on such a serious investment.

PixeHome solution is SIMPLE: Snap the house and room photos with a phone and the app will automatically organize them with street addresses, map, date of visit, and room type. Users can annotate the houses and the room?s photos. Rank the houses and sort them, all from the phone. PixeHome leaves no room for ambiguity as far as the house appearance is concerned. Making decision on which house to purchase should not be harder than it needs to.

Buying house is exciting, but can also be stressful. Couples might argue over many aspects of candidate houses. Situations may arise when an agent claims to have found a good match, but the supposedly good match turns out to be a disappointment upon visit. Occasionally home buyers visit a house without their partners, but still hopes their partners can see what they see. In short, stress can stem from seeing things differently by all stakeholders.

PixeHome For Buyer has a collaboration feature to alleviate the stress. With PixeHome, home buyers can create a house hunting ?call? consisting of his or her spouse, buyer agent, and other potential helpers. Then, PixeHome links those phone cameras together; A house photo taken by the spouse or agent will automatically appear in the home buyer?s phone, and vice versa. No upload, USB transfer, or file sharing is required. During the house hunting process spanning months, every stakeholder will have exactly the same set of house photos. PixeHome might not get everyone to see things the same way, but it certainly can present the look-and-feel of the houses and rooms consistently through images. And everyone has the same images from their phones, in their palms.

With PixeHome?s built-in collaboration features, a home buyer can also make her agent to work better for her to find her dream home. To claim finding a good match, an agent better backs up the claim by snapping some room photos before the buyer?s visit. Texting on photos also gives PixeHome users an extra means to communicate with their agent.

Some of its salient features and benefits are:

Remember 20+ visited homes and their rooms with confidence.
Organize house photos by street addresses (GPS-enabled), map, date of visit, and room type.
Link phone cameras together and collaborate exclusively.
Rank, annotate, and text on house photos to helpers such as buyer agent and spouse.
Browse photos and compare; e.g. browse kitchen photos of all visited houses, right from the palms.

Shiou Loh, Founder & CEO of Rcursion Inc, said ?Most people have digital photos stored all over different devices and storage. What PixeHome brings in is getting us organized even before the first house photo is taken, with little effort from human side. From then on, all photos taken fall on the right buckets and categories. It is similar to setting up racks for kids? toys before they mess it up. It is a simple and effective solution. For investment as big as buying a house, we better get organized.?

This innovative app is now available on Android Market at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pixecon.pixehomebuyer.

About Rcursion:

Rcursion is the home to PixeConn eco-system, which allows users to see what matters using images and then allows users to connect to the people and things that they care. Through proprietary view transport technology, PixeConn accomplishes its purpose by allowing you users to request to see the world through still-images on just-in-time basis using contacts information in smart phones. We believe most human interactions is naturally started with seeing images, which could be images formed in their eyes or that of cameras. Once the images are acquired, PixeConn helps making use of the acquired images for their respective applications. PixeConn will also allow consumers to see what merchants can see, and allow merchants to see what consumers can see.

Ways to reach Rcursion/PixeConn:

contact(at)pixeconn(dot)com

Tel: 1-312-428-6920

Office hours: Mon-Fri; 8 AM – 5 PM (US Central; GMT -6)

Address: 5 E. College Dr, Suite 15, Arlington Heights, IL, USA

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DIY Network?s ?Man Caves? Features Touchstone Home Products TV Lift Cabinets


Exton, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) December 19, 2011

DIY Network?s ?Man Caves? features TV lift cabinets by Touchstone Home Products in two new episodes. President of Touchstone Home Products, Jon Bradlee, met with hosts James Cameron and former NFL-great Tony ?The Goose? Siragusa at the homes of two lucky guests to transform average rooms into ultimate man caves.

Touchstone Home Products TV lifts are featured in the ?Hi-Tech Country Club Cave? episode, where guest Steven Ng?s basement is transformed from a small play area, usually covered by his daughter?s toys, into a technology-inspired, country-club-themed man cave. Touchstone delivers one of its best-selling Landmark TV lift cabinets and fits it with a new 46? flat screen TV and side cabinets for extra media storage space.

Touchstone meets with DIY Network?s ?Man Caves? crew for a second time to transform an old bomb shelter into a hi-tech man cave for guest Brian Manley, a military intelligence officer with a fascination for the Cold War spy era. In the episode dubbed ?Spy Cave?, Touchstone?s President Jon Bradlee installs one of Touchstone?s patented Whisper Lift systems into the cabinet of an antique television set from 1958. Host Tony Siragusa puts the finishing touches on the job by hanging a 22? flat screen television onto the Whisper Lift and using the remote control to hide the TV inside of the cabinet.

?Touchstone is very excited to participate in these Man Caves episodes,? said Touchstone Home Products Vice President Frank Quinlisk. ?The concept behind our TV Lift Cabinets is a perfect fit into these transformations ?

Tune in to DIY channel on Fridays at 9:00 p.m and 9:30 p.m. ET to catch DIY Network?s ?Man Caves? episodes featuring Touchstone TV Lift Cabinets.

About Touchstone:

Touchstone is a leader and pioneer in the design and manufacturing of Theater Lift cabinets. Founded in 2005, Touchstone offers cabinets in contemporary, traditional, and transitional styles to fit seamlessly in almost any home. Bedroom-size TV lift cabinets accommodate flat panel televisions up to 45 inches, full-size cabinets will fit flat panel TV?s up to 55 inches and mid-size cabinets up to 46 inches. Touchstone TV lift cabinets maximize space, enhance in-home entertainment experiences and provide added safety and security to any room in the house.

ABOUT MAN CAVES

DIY Network?s ?Man Caves? airs Fridays at 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET and is all about giving guys an exclusive space to hang out in their homes. In each half-hour episode, Cameron and Siragusa create a man cave solely for one lucky guy, while offering ideas and expert do-it-yourself instruction to help homeowners everywhere construct their own personal hangouts.

ABOUT DIY NETWORK

DIY Network, from the makers of HGTV and Food Network, is the go-to destination for rip-up, knock-out home improvement television. DIY Network?s programs and experts answer the most sought-after questions and offer creative projects for do-it-yourself enthusiasts. One of the fastest growing digital networks and currently in more than 53 million homes, DIY Network?s programming covers a broad range of categories, including home improvement and landscaping.

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Online Black Friday Shopping Tips & Tricks Help Shoppers Get Deals at Home


Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) November 21, 2011

Retailers are threatening to make Thanksgiving a shopping holiday with earlier start times for their Black Friday sales this year. Shoppers are resisting and more than ever will be going online to do their Black Friday shopping. GottaDeal.com, having covered Black Friday online since 2003, offers tips to their visitors for getting the most deals when shopping online this week.

“More Black Friday deals than ever will be available online this year, even the most popular doorbuster specials,” says Brad Olson, Owner of GottaDeal.com. “We’re telling our visitors that if they don’t want to shop in stores all night long, they can get the exact same deals from the comfort of their home.”

GottaDeal.com acquires leaked copies of Black Friday ads from major retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Toys R Us and others. “The extra time allows our visitors to research products, compare prices, and come up with a plan of attack for the big day, whether they are shopping online or in stores,” says Mr. Olson.

The site offers a comprehensive “Online Black Friday Tracker” which provides a schedule of when the online Black Friday sales start for each retailer, as well as a listing of sale items that can be ordered online at any given moment. There are already several Black Friday specials that can be ordered online at the sale price or less.

In addition to this tracker, the site features a dedicated online Black Friday shopping message board where visitors can discuss the sales, ask questions of the experts on the site and post what deals they are finding. “Our message boards will be very busy towards the end of the week. Our members will be helping each other get the best deals possible,” says Mr. Olson.

In addition to using the tools available on the site, GottaDeal.com offers additional tips:

“Prepare your online retailer accounts – This can be done at any time between now and the start of the sale, although it’s better to do it as soon as possible. Go to each web site for stores you plan to shop at this week and make sure your shipping and billing addresses are up to date. Also make sure your credit card information is saved to your account.”

“Adding items to your cart in advance – In many cases, you are able to add Black Friday sale items to your shopping cart (make sure you are logged in so they are tied to your account) and once the sale has started, you can refresh your cart and the sale prices should change. This can be a real time saver when you need to get your order placed before items sell out.”

“Be aware of free shipping offers – One of the best parts of online Black Friday shopping (aside from not having to deal with the chaos in stores) is getting your items shipped for free. Each retailer has a different shipping policy – some, such as Best Buy offer free shipping on absolutely everything. For other stores, there is usually an order total threshold that you must reach to get free shipping. “

For the complete list of tips, please visit http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/OnlineTips

GottaDeal.com is a year-round online deals site dedicated to saving visitors money in all aspects of their daily lives. It features hundreds of online deals posted each week, an updated listing on online coupons and a large community message board. Every autumn, the site opens their Black Friday web site dedicated to covering Black Friday sales and holiday shopping trends.

For more information, please contact Brad Olson at media @ gottadeal.com or visit http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com

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