Wednesday, June 5
Sharing your Digital Photographs
One of the joys of owning a digital camera is being able to share pictures via the Internet, with your friends, relations, or (if your ego is big enough) the world. By putting pictures on a website, you eliminate the hassle of attaching them to email, bloating your email account, cluttering your hard drive, and ultimate deletion by recipients who won't open any email attachments because of potential virus infestations.
If you have your own website and put pictures there, you will eventually run up against limits as well, along with having to spend considerable time making things look attractive, let alone work properly.
The alternative to this is to entrust your photos to an online photo album site, and one that gets a high rating from the computer press is the free Kodak site, Ofoto. Of course, they're hoping that you, or those you share with, will buy prints, and you just might, especially if you're a grandparent. Of course, you'll want to keep a backup, and a CD writer is the recommended current technology for that purpose.
- Bill Hudgins
Note: See the revised terms of service as of October, 2003, which now requires a minimum purchase per year.