Photo sharing, Photo sharing websites, Photos

Five best digital photo organizers

04.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Lifehacker.com is a great website with all kinds of interesting tips to make your life easier. They recently posted an article on the Five best digital photo organizers. Here are the results (as of April 7, 2008): 
Best Digital Photo Organizer?

Folder Structure
 17.6% (1178 votes)

Flickr
 6.1% (411 votes)

Picasa
 42.7% (2864 votes)

iPhoto
 14.2% (950 votes)

Adobe Lightroom
 19.5% (1306 votes)

 What do you use?

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Fun Products

How to make old fashion flip books

02.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Do you remember those animated flip books that we played with as kids? Well, they are back in a hi-tech format. It’s called Flipclips. With Flipclips you turn your digital video into a paper flip book that you can give as fun gifts to friends, family and grandparents. According to the FlipClips website:
Preserve special moments with much [...]

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Audio conversion, Photo conversion, Video Conversion

Convert any audio, video or photo file to any other format!

02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Have you ever had the need to convert one audio, video or picture format to another? Well, now you can with an online service called ZamZar.com. The entry level offering is FREE! The free offering gives you 100MB in file size, and 5 concurrent conversions. Pricing range from $7/month for the Basic and $49/month for [...]

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Audio conversion

Digitize your cassettes and LPs

02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

MacWorld has a great article on digitizing your old cassettes and LPs. Read the comments as well — they contain good information. This article is only for Mac users. They mention the following programs to use to digitize your analog audio:

CD SpinDoctor, ~$40.
Final Vinyl, ~$40 includes iMic product.
Audacity, free.
Garage Band (part of iLife ‘08, ~$80).

Another [...]

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Video Conversion

Convert older MPEG-2 video to DV format

12.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve recorded a lot of video clips on my older digital cameras, including a Casio EX-S600. These older video clips are stored in MPEG-2, AVI, and other older video formats. Newer video editing programs (like iMovie for the Mac) don’t support most of these older video formats. This week I decided that it was time [...]

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Photo processing

iPhoto does a great job with Christmas cards

12.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

If you haven’t mailed your Christmas cards yet, then you may be too late. You can always send e-cards. This year, like last year, we used Apple’s iPhoto application to create a Christmas card. The process to create a card is quick and easy. The hardest part is coming up with a message, like “Merry [...]

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Negatives, Scan Old Film Negatives, Scan Slides

How to Digitize slides guide from PopPhoto.com

12.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

PopPhoto.com describes three easy ways to digitize your old slides. After you digitize your old slides you can save them to DVD, print them and share with loved ones, or share them on photo sharing sites like Flickr or SmugMug. I have a lot of old slides that my Dad took in the ’60s, [...]

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Photo editing, Photo sharing, Photo sharing websites

Digitalbucket.net - New service to backup your photos online

12.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Digitalbucket.net is a fairly new file sharing service. You can store, share and retrieve any kind of file from anywhere on the Internet. I’m interested in this service because they provide photo album and photo editing (using Snipshot — well not really, read on) capabilities.

The service is currently in beta and they offer 4 pricing [...]

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Photo sharing, Photo sharing websites

Review of Online Photo Services, including SmugMug, Picasa and Flickr

12.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Firsttube.com reviewed some of the most popular online photo services in A Review of Online Photo Services. Thank you Adam. He reviews the following sites in detail:

Google’s PicasaWeb,
Flickr,
Zoto,
Zooomr,
SmugMug,
Photobucket,
Facebook, and
MySpace.

Here is his conclusion (also read the comments for more sites):

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Photo editing

Snipshot and other online photo editing tools

12.05.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

After writing the post regarding Flickr and Picnik, I came across a great post by Christian Watson on his Smiley Cat blog. In this post, Online Image Editors Compared, he compares about 13 different online photo/image editors including: Fauxto (now called Splashup), Picnik, and Snipshot. He includes a very detailed comparison chart. Here is a [...]

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