Boston, MA (ContentDesk) February, 9 2006 -- Photo websites like Snapfish, Kodaks EasyShare Gallery, Shutterfly, and Yahoo Photos are great for sharing and printing some of your favorite pictures.
But as Bill Bulkeley said in his recent article in the Wall Street Journal, The Downside of Photo-Storage Sites, If users don't follow the conditions for service -- often disclosed only in the fine print -- their photographs could wind up getting deleted.On these websites, you typically have to purchase prints from time to time in order to avoid having your uploaded pictures deleted.
For example, Kodak's online EasyShare Gallery quietly added a provision last year that requires users to pay $2.49 per month to avoid having their pictures deleted if they dont order prints.
However, most people have far too many photos on their hard drives to use services like EasyShare, Snapfish, or Yahoo Photos for backup.
Digital photographers today have an average of 2,800 photos on their hard drives, using roughly 2.4 gigabytes of disk space, according to a survey done by Carbonite, Inc., a provider of online backup services.
According to David Friend, CEO of Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com), A real backup service ought to find all your pictures automatically and just back them up without the user having to think about it.
To upload 2,800 photos to a service like Kodaks EasyShare requires you to hand-select each of the 2,800 photos.
It would take days of constant work.
And you need to remember to repeat that process every time you take new pictures. People just dont do it its too much of a pain.Kodak doesnt seem to dispute this assertion and even puts a tip on their web site exhorting users to Back up your photos!Carbonites approach is different.
What we do, explains Jeff Flowers, co-founder and CTO, is scan your disk looking for any pictures to back up.
Its completely automatic.
Any time you put some new photos on your PC, Carbonite finds them within seconds and starts to back them up over the Internet.
When the little Carbonite icon turns green, that means that every photo on your PC is safely backed up on our servers in a secure location.
If your PC gets stolen or your house burns down, you can easily get all your photos back from us.
And we encrypt those photos before they leave your PC so that no one but you can see them.
Obviously the photo printing and photo sharing web sites cant do that. [See screenshots belowThe issue, says Friend is not just whether your images are safely stored on the Internet somewhere, but rather, how they got there.
If it takes work, youll put off doing backups.
If its automatic, like virus protection, and you dont have to think about it, youll always be safe.About CarboniteCarbonite (www.carbonite.com)was founded in 2005 in order to provide Internet-based Backup for Everyone (TM). Although data loss is a very common problem, few people backup their PCs: existing methods of backup are tedious, time consuming and often too expensive.
Furthermore, most dont provide protection against PC theft, damage and natural disasters. At Carbonite, we believe PC users shouldnt have to think about backup. Our mission is to provide an inexpensive, reliable and truly easy-to-use solution for the mainstream PC user; one that is simple, safe and always on (TM)..
Indoor Air Pollution-You Can Do Something About It.
About Indoor Air Pollution At The Workplace And At Home.Workplace Air PollutionWhen we think about pollution, we generally think in terms of outdoor air pollution. However, we spend many hours each day indoors, be it at home or in our work place. Yes, air pollution isn't only an outdoor issue. The air indoors, at our home and in our workplace can also be polluted and we can suffer because of it. Indoor air pollution can and does affect the quality of our life.
In fact, levels of some types of air pollution can be higher indoors than outdoors. On average, people spend about 90 percent of their time indoors, so the quality of indoor air is very important to ones wellbeing and health. We need to breathe whether it is indoors or outdoors so we have to make the air we live in as pollution free as possible.Air Pollution at our work place and the indoor air quality is an important health issue and demands our attention. Complaints abound related to indoor air quality due to more tightly...
Indoor Air Pollution-You Can Do Something About It.
Printer Buying Guide
Printers are essential peripherals, performing a critical role as they render electronic information into tangible records or material output. You're simply not using your computer to its fullest potential if you are unable to print reports, presentations, letters, photos, or whatever it is you need to output. Choosing a printer can be confusing, however, in today's competitive, ever-changing landscape. This buying guide rounds out some of the more important criteria to consider before you make that all-important purchase decision.
Printing Technologies
This is the biggest decision to make before anything else. Your choice should be based on how you work and the kind of output you will be expecting from the printer.
?Inkjet: Inkjet printers can deliver stunning color, so this is the way to go if you are mostly concerned with printing photos.
Inkjets can be used for printing text, but the print speed is too slow if the primary purpose of the...
Printer Buying Guide
Are you doing all you can to keep your child safe?
(ContentDesk) April 10, 2004--Vivian Nelson-Melle understands the importance of child safety. Every parent's worst nightmare is being separated from his or her child and the finder not knowing where the child lives or whom to contact. Even worse is the possibility of being
in a terrible auto accident and left unconscious and unable to fill others in on your children's medical needs.My Precious Kid Safety Products (www.mamitascreations.com) will inspire parents to take a time out for their children's safety. In just a few simple clicks of the mouse or dialing of the phone, parents can special order ID cards and fingerprint kits that will ultimately add to the safety of their children.When Vivian Nelson-Melle of Phoenix, Arizona, had a daughter with a severe allergy she wondered how others would know should she become separated from her. Research brought her to My Precious Kid Safety Products, the perfect...
Photographer's Career Path Re-Focuses Down Retail Road
Naples, FL (ContentDesk) March 17, 2006 -- Photographer Michelle Tricca fuses fashion and photography in her new line of high quality cotton casual wear for women, men and babies called Mo T's. Her one of a kind t-shirt designs feature photographs from her travels to places far and wide. Each image evokes the extraordinary, whether it be from the quaint towns of New England, the lush savannahs of Africa or the exotic paradise of Hawaii.Mo T's are made from ultra-soft cotton. They feature compelling soulful images, such as reflecting surf sand and sea, from the photographer's portfolio.
The color and B&W photos and are enhanced by words or phrases that complete the spirit of the image.
In some cases the language of the region where the image was taken is used. Mo T's are sure to set the trend wherever they go.Since photography is her life and she dons a tee on her daily pursuit for the consummate photograph, it was only a matter of time before the 2 merged. We are happy...
Photographer's Career Path Re-Focuses Down Retail Road
Don't Confuse Photo-sharing and Printing Websites with Real Backup
Boston, MA (ContentDesk) February, 9 2006 -- Photo websites like Snapfish, Kodaks EasyShare Gallery, Shutterfly, and Yahoo Photos are great for sharing and printing some of your favorite pictures.
But as Bill Bulkeley said in his recent article in the Wall Street Journal, The Downside of Photo-Storage Sites, If users don't follow the conditions for service -- often disclosed only in the fine print -- their photographs could wind up getting deleted.On these websites, you typically have to purchase prints from time to time in order to avoid having your uploaded pictures deleted.
For example, Kodak's online EasyShare Gallery quietly added a provision last year that requires users to pay $2.49 per month to avoid having their pictures deleted if they dont order prints.
However, most people have far too many photos on their hard drives to use services like EasyShare, Snapfish, or Yahoo Photos for backup.
Digital photographers today have an average...
Family Journals
Family Journals
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www.the5yearjournal.com info@the5yearjournal.com Keeping a journal, diary, or diaries, can not only be beneficial to you as an individual, but it can also be a benefit to your family. Do you remember the family vacation to Disneyland when you were 12? What about your parent's 20-year anniversary? Or your birthday party when you turned 15? The new house you moved into in 8th grade? High school graduation?All those family memories from family events -- all those moments in time, now past.A family journal is a book, or a series of books, where family members can journal about any event that has taken place. For example, there could be one individual journal that you take to every family reunion to capture current events year to year. It could have photos, memorabilia and journal entries from those who attended the reunion. The journal could also include letters, announcements and other updates from family members.
Parents can journal daily to...
Family Journals
Triangle Printers: Fifty Years and Facing Forward
SKOKIE, IL (ContentDesk) July 7, 2005 -- The year was 1955. Dwight Eisenhower occupied the Oval Office. Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine, "Rock Around The Clock" topped the music charts, and the average cost of an American home was $22,000. It was also the year that 23-year-old Harvey Saltzman withdrew $250 from his meager savings and founded Triangle Printers ? then just a crowded little desk in a shared office on Chicago's north side.Today - 50 years later - Saltzman's small investment has blossomed into a business that is a leader in the graphic arts industry. The company now occupies a modern, 50,000 square foot production facility with 50 employees, serving clients of all sizes from across the country."When I started Triangle," Saltzman reflects, "I couldn't have imagined the digital age of today.
Back then, the sales process was literally door-to-door, letterpress was the reigning technology of the day, and offset printing was a new concept. Looking back, it's hard...
Triangle Printers: Fifty Years and Facing Forward