Professional Services in Scottsdale

Great-grandmas and flat-screen TVs don't have much in common. But if one were to draw a Venn diagram for the two, they would overlap with Home Movie Preservation Center. Equipped with digital tools, the center's team of video technicians rescues home footage of great-grandmas and other memories from deteriorating formats and gives it a new home on high-quality DVDs. The staff is adept at filling their DVDs with transfers from an array of media types, including photos, slides, and audiocassettes and VHS, MiniDV, 8mm, and Super 8mm film.

The two-woman team of Michel Herstam and Heather Allen started HALO (Helping Animals Live On) Animal Rescue out of their homes in 1994 to provide temporary shelter for abandoned cats and dogs until they were adopted. Today, out of the basement and into its own adoption center, HALO’s mission is twofold: it aims to rescue animals at risk of being euthanized in shelters and works to create a better welfare system for the 100,000 cats and dogs that enter Maricopa County shelters every year. Each animal in the organization’s care receives a complete medical examination and treatments, and no animal is euthanized for being unable to find a home. Online bios highlight animals for potential adopters, focusing on how each animal will fit into an individual's home, family, and lifestyle in order to foster a lifelong match. In 2011, HALO placed more than 3,520 cats and dogs in loving homes.

At Inspect-Ur Gadget, screens shattered by accidents and environmental damage are restored to like-new form with drop-off and mail-in services. Inspect-Ur Gadget's technology whisperers take possession of patrons' precious technological devices, then patch up boo-boos, seal cracks in screens, and sing lullabies to send stubborn phones into sleep mode. In addition to restoring smartphones, the crew restores PlayStations, Xboxes, computers, and cell phones to peak functionality. Yellow-light errors and red rings of death are banished from video-game systems by expert technicians, and computers receive screen replacements to bolster performance prowess and render crystal-clear desktops. The PC pamperers also delve into hard-disk drives and software registries to eradicate the repressed memories of younger years as an abacus or viruses impeding functionality.:

Reflections Bingo, named Best Bingo joint in both 2008 and 2009 by the Phoenix New Times, has drawn flocks of players for more than 20 years to compete in cash-prize games that ultimately benefit local arts and entertainment causes. A real human rather than an electronic machine calls out numbers so players don't have to translate robotic bleeps and bloops. Reflections Bingo features a different game every evening, such as the $23/33 special session, which features a $1,000 jackpot. A portion of game proceeds go toward local charities such as the Young Sounds of Arizona, Phoenix Federation of Musicians, and the Phoenix Chorale.

Clad in formal wear, the skilled DJs of GoJonnyGo Mobile DJ Service pump up the music and the crowd at wedding receptions inside venues big and small. Thousands of songs lie in wait in the DJ’s preplucked list of tunes, or brides and grooms can create a playlist of their own to sound from the DJ’s quality Bose, Shure, and Behringer equipment. GoJonnyGo further customizes postnuptial parties to newlyweds’ liking, and proposes a trio of packages to fit different budgets and needs, from reception-only parties to the Everything, Everywhere package, which not only creates a soundtrack for the reception, but also for the ceremony and the traditional groom-versus-father-of-the-bride staring contest in the parking lot.