Category: Image storage
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5 years of lifetime for a DVD archive
You have been told so repeatedly (I even wrote in 2007 an article about the weaknesses of CD/DVD, a few years ago already), it is mentioned again in an article about backups for the photographers, but there are still some people to believe that the CD or the DVD is a good solution to the…
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IrfanView upgraded
The excellent images handling software program, IrfanView, has just been upgraded to version 4.27. Command line options to handle images with scripts (actions) or filters. Addition of a border or a frame. Addition of new filters and file formats. The screen copies options now allow to handle larger objects like a full web page (auto-scroll…
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Three cheap image hosting services
Ars Technica has a nice little post comparing three image online hosting and sharing options: Flickr Picasa Photobucket They do not conclude which one is better, merely provide a view about the differences. Good reading.
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Best backups (top 5)
Once again, LifeHacker offers us an interesting list of tools recommended by its visitors (from the comments found in a previous article). This time, it can also interest a photographer (like our previous advice about photographer’s backups) since this is a list of the 5 best off-line backup tools. SyncBack (Windows, Basic: Free/Pro: $50) Windows…
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Sanho introduces a 640GB photo viewer
For the last few years, I have been strongly recommending the Sanho disk-based photo viewers and portable memory, to empty your Flash cards into a big portable disk drive. Visibly, they have a very powerful technology which leads to features like: Extremely fast copying from card to hard disk drive Superb autonomy Compatibility with many…
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Aviary goes free
Aviary, one of the best online graphics edition software, just changed its pricing model. Instead of the subscriptions previously used, they went for a new price structure: 100% free. Supported by new financial partners, they offer their tools for free. Impressive free tool suite. The announcement on the Aviary blog.
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SD card compatibility for the iPhone
It’s been a long time since the first complaint of some photographers using the iPhone about the lack of external memory storage on the Apple top-of-the-line phone. There certainly are good reasons from Apple (Ed.: which ones?) but the need is still there. And, in our economy, when there is a need, there is somebody…
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A hard disk drive for your backups
We were previously speaking here of backing up your photos, only a month ago. Here is a serious hard disk drive designed for this task:The ioSafe Solo fireproof and waterproof hard drive line with 2TB. Not really cheap at 400$ for 2 tera-bytes, and only a USB 2.0 connection, but it looks sturdy.
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All about backups for the photographer
As a summary for the recent series of posts about options open to the digital photographer willing to protect his/her picture files (i.e. backup all photo files), here is a table of contents that should help you find again all solutions I presented over the last 4 weeks. Local backup options (External hard disk drive)…