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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Flickr,
iPhot,
Lightroom,
photo organizers,
Picasa
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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flip book,
flipclips,
video,
video clips
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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File Conversion,
Lifehacker.com,
media-convert.com,
youconvertit.com,
Zamzar.com
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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Audacity,
Audio Hijack,
CD SpinDoctor,
Final Vinyl,
iLife
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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.Mac,
AppleTV,
AVI,
DV,
iMovie,
iPhoto,
MPEG Streamclip,
MPEG-1,
MPEG-2,
MPEG-4,
Quicktime Pro,
video format conversion
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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Apple,
iLife,
iPhoto,
Wallmart cards
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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digitize slides,
PopPhoto.com,
scancafe,
slides
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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Digitalbucket.net,
file sharing,
Picnic,
Snipshot
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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Facebook,
Flickr,
MySpace,
photobucket,
Picasa,
PicasaWeb,
Review,
Smugmug,
Zooomr,
Zoto
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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Fauxto,
image editor,
Picnik,
Snipshot,
Splashup
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