PHOTOS AND PRINTERS

Oct 9, 2005 | hardware, photos, printers

Printer prices are in free fall – down by 30% in the last few months. But here’s an article going over the numbers to explain why more people are taking their camera’s memory cards to Costco or getting their prints from an online service instead of...

MOVING PICTURES FROM CAMERA TO COMPUTER

Aug 10, 2005 | photos, software

There are a thousand ways to transfer photos from your camera to a computer. None of them are wrong, but it’s all too easy to get lost in a blur of unfamiliar programs fighting for control of the process and making it confusing.I have a recipe that has proven to...

PRICE DROPS ON PRINTS OF DIGITAL PHOTOS

Jun 8, 2005 | photos

Here’s an article summing up the increased competition to print your digital photos. There’s a dizzying array of options ranging from kiosks at the drug store to Costco and WalMart, plus an increasing number of web sites. Prices are steadily coming down; a...

PICASA PHOTO ORGANIZING SOFTWARE

Jan 21, 2005 | Google, photos, software

Google seems genuinely committed to making the world a better place. (Example: A client just mentioned this news story from last week – Google’s AdWords division, responsible for the contextual ads that appear alongside search results, insists that...

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Dec 21, 2004 | photos

Lots of you own digital cameras or will get them for Xmas. Each camera will come with proprietary software to unload photos from the camera and handle simple editing – fixing redeye, making dark pictures brighter, and the like. Life with new technology is full...