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Create Your Own Photo Blog

If your inclination leads more to images instead of words, or if you just don’t have the time involved to create a traditional written blog, why not consider a photo blog? Photos can have a major impact. They can communicate loudly to others, help you keep in touch with family and friends and may even win you an award or two. Here are some guidelines to cresting your own photo log. First determine the parameters of your photo blog. Blog that have a theme or a direction (even if that direction is eclectic) always do better. People viewing the blog … Continue reading →

Kodak Digital Picture Frame

Digital picture frames are one of the hot gifts this season. They seem to be on everyone’s wish list and in every store, from Sears to high-end electronic stores. Target even featured one in its Black Friday sale. With a digital picture frame, you can upload your digital photos to display one at a time or in a slide show. There are many different options out there. You can find digital photo frames that do the above mentioned photo slide shows, as well as ones that feature movie clips and/or have multiple screens. Prices can range from $50 to more … Continue reading →

Buying a Digital Camera: Resolution Explained

If you are shopping for a new digital camera, no doubt that you are looking at resolution and megapixels. But what does it all mean? Here is a thorough guide to this important digital camera feature. What are megapixels? The megapixel count of a digital camera has to do with the resolution capability of the camera, or in other words, how sharp and clear your photos will be. Each image is made up of megapixels. Think of a modern artist who makes up his masterpieces using only colored dots. The more (and smaller) dots he uses, the sharper and more … Continue reading →

Flip Video Ultra

Still looking for that perfect tech gift for the holidays? Consider the Flip Video Ultra. It’s relatively low cost and ease of use will make it a quick pick for under the tree. In fact, with its small size, it could make a very nice stocking stuffer, too. With this ingenious little device, your special someone will always have a video camera available to grab life’s moments. Camcorders can be bulk, and even the smallest ones are difficult to carry everywhere. The Flip Video Ultra will fit in a pocket or a purse with ease. It is about the size … Continue reading →

Netflix Offers $1 Million Prize

What happens when the number one DVD rental company isn’t happy with being twice as popular? The company decides to sponsor a contest for improvment. The movie rental virtual store Netflk uses a complicated system of algorithms and other software coding to offer recommendations of new movies to its customers, based on preferences and what those customers have rented in the past. But Netfliks wants to gain even more market share by improving upon that system, and the DVD giant is offering a $1 million prize to anyone who could improve upon that system by at least 10 percent. Thousands … Continue reading →

Flickr Photo Sharing

Now that you have been taking some great digital photos, you’ll want to share them right? When you are done uploading them to your My Site here at Families.com, you might want a way to manage them and share them some more. Flickr is one of the many growing photo sharing websites that makes it easy to upload, organize and share digital photos. The basic premise of a photo sharing site such as Flickr is to give users a place to store digital photos. When you want to share a digital photo or group of photos, instead of the traditional … Continue reading →

Computing Review August 25th Through August 31st

Video games, blogs, digital cameras, the iPhone and more. it has been a busy week here in the Computing Blog. I am happy to say that we have had two guest bloggers this week offering a fresh perspective on all things involving technology. If you missed their blogs or anything else this week, well, now is the time for a quick review. Here is the Computing Blog week in review for August 25th Through August 31st August 25th Your Blog: Doing Link Exchanges One of the things out there in blog-land is the practice of link exchanges. These exchanges can … Continue reading →