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008 Select a Photo Gift Service

Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 10:07 AM  posted by rob.dunford

One of the reasons you may want to select one or more photo gift services to help preserve and share memories is because they have access to processes that produce gifts that the typical consumer cannot make by him- or herself. Iron-on photo transfers only go so far, y’ know.

The need for a more-creative or interesting gift may lead you to one of the suppliers below.  A large number of firms are available to help you make jewelry, mouse pads, stamps, back-lit photo frames, mugs, and other gifts from your custom photos.

Since many of the suppliers use similar approaches to get your photos onto their products let’s start with a photo mug as an example.

Photo Mug

Follow these steps: Read more

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007 How to Make Photo Gifts

Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 12:07 PM  posted by rob.dunford

Photo gifts and novelties, such as t-shirts, mugs, aprons, mouse pads, and many other items make practical, custom-made gifts that anyone would enjoy. Photos can also be incorporated in cookies, cakes, candies, soccer balls and other surprising surfaces.  We’ll limit this article to putting photos on more common materials such as fabric and hard surfaces like plastic.

There are two major ways of printing photos on fabric and similar surfaces.  Read more

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006 Making Your Own Slideshow versus Selecting a Service to Make It for You

Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 02:07 PM  posted by rob.dunford

The major differences between making your own slideshow versus using a service to make one for you are:

  • Cost
  • Creativity
  • Control
  • Time

Cost

Surprisingly, the cost difference between making your own slide shows Read more

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005 Choosing the Best Slideshow Maker

Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 01:07 PM  posted by rob.dunford

My wife, Jill, says choosing the best slideshow maker is one of the easiest decisions of all.  She suggests that you “Write the names of individual services on pieces of paper and tack to a large dart board.  Standing about 10 feet away from the board with your eyes closed, throw the dart towards the board.  Wherever the dart lands is the service that you should use.  This is even more interesting if you can have someone rotate the board as you are throwing the dart.  However, this can possibly be dangerous for the dart board holder, so this should only be done by someone wearing a heavy suit of armor or who is mentally deranged.”

In reality, she is not really being so very tongue-in-cheek. The criteria for choosing software to make a slideshow yourself are numerous.  Consider the following: Read more

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004 How to Make Slideshows and Music DVDs

Thursday, June 3, 2010 @ 05:06 PM  posted by rob.dunford

There are few, if any, more pleasing ways of enjoying your family photos than by sharing them with family and friends via slideshows and music DVDs. A Google search on these terms will reveal a large number of offerings.

Many of the offerings can be downloaded from the Internet with a free trial and purchased thereafter. All programs allow you to make a slide show from still photos; a few will allow you to insert video clips as well.  Some offerings require no software download at all, but rather do all of the work for you over the Internet.  Nevertheless, they usually follow these steps: Read more

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003 The Difference between Sharing Digital Photos on Your Own Blog or Website and Selecting a Service to Share Digital Photos

Thursday, June 3, 2010 @ 03:06 PM  posted by rob.dunford

Digital photo sharing is the process of allowing others to see your photos, whether publicly or privately, usually via the Internet.  This ability is provided through private websites or blogs, by public website services like Flickr and Snapfish and also via direct email.

Although both your own blog or website and public website services may feature public and private options, sharing digital photos on your own blog is likely to be more secure.  However, your photos may be seen by fewer people, which may be good or bad, depending on your purpose.

You are likely to have greater control over the photos on your own blog or website than by using a service.   For example, you may choose to store your photo at full resolution whereas many services will reduce the resolution of your photo in order to save space.

Generally, one would share digital photos on his or her own blog or website to gain control; he or she would use a service if greater exposure to the pictures or more features – more stuff to do with your photos — is wanted.

Sending photos via direct email offers the greatest precision, allowing you to specify exactly which photos may be seen by whom, but file size is the limiting factor here.  Many ISPs (Internet Service Providers) limit email file sizes and attachments to about 10 megabytes, or only about 5 or 10 high-quality photos.

Related articles:

001 How to Share Photos on Your Own Blog or Website
002 How to Share Photos Using a Photo Sharing Service or Website
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002 How to Share Photos Using a Photo Sharing Service or Website

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 @ 05:06 PM  posted by rob.dunford

If you want to share your photos with others over the Internet, there are at least  three ways you can do it.  You can share them on your own blog or private website, you can use a photo sharing service, or you can send the photos via email.  Let’s show you how to use a photo sharing service or website.   There are a number to choose from (such as Flickr, Snapfish, Picasa, and many others.)

1.  Create an account in the service you prefer to use and sign in. Read more

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001 How to Share Photos on Your Own Blog or Website

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 @ 04:06 PM  posted by rob.dunford

So you’ve taken a bunch of pictures with your handy little digital camera or smart phone and loaded them on to your computer!  Now what are you going to do with them?  Sharing photos with friends and family probably comes to mind first.  But just how do you do this?  Upload them to your own blog or website.  (Don’t have your own website? Click here to see how to get your own, free, private Lasting Links website.)

This should help you with this process.

1.  Navigate to your web page or blog.

2.  Select the location or article or post where you want the photo to appear or write a new one.

3.  Click the “Add Media” button.  In a WordPress blog, for example, it looks like this: Read more

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Vinyl Conversion Hints: LPs to CDs

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 07:04 PM  posted by mike.wade

Doing some research for our readers on vinyl conversion of lps to cds, I came across the following comments that may interest you. I know they were helpful to me!
  • What type of turntable makes vinyl conversion to MP3, Line input … – Want to buy one but I want the one that reproduces the conversion to MP3 in the best manner or sound. Juan, This might get a bit long-winded, so get.
  • Re: VS7 – Mac OS X – Outstanding First Vinyl Conversion – My first experience with Vinyl Studio was similarly plain sailing and enjoyable, albeit using a less sophisticated set-up: from a Wilson Benesch Full Circle into a Whest PS.20 phono preamp, thence to a Levinson 383 and from the line out …
  • ION iPROFILE USB Turntable Transfers Vinyl Directly To Your iPod … – The built-in iPod docking station on the iProfile enables you to record your vinyl records directly onto your iPod. Easy-to-use vinyl conversion software for Mac and Windows computers is included, so you’ll have all the audio gear you …
  • Hacking Vinyl Records for the Best Play… – I’d shipped a vinyl conversion to a customer, who promptly replied asking about the skip in track 7. I checked my files; as track 7 was the first track on the B side, the problems could be any range of issues. …
  • How to Convert Vinyl to CD or MP3 – Soundware.co.uk – … to split it into tracks and save your albums as MP3s or burn them to CD. You can use almost any music production software for this job, but there are some pieces of software designed specifically with vinyl conversion in mind: …
  • vinyl conversion #2! – back for another installment of weekly vinyl conversions! this week’s song comes from a very limited edition vinyl subscription series offered by the people in a position to know label out of olympia, wa. this label releases very small …
  • Converting Vinyl Records to Digital Format – Growing up in the cassette and vinyl record age, I purchased many many records some of which cannot be found on any of the online services like iTunes, Rhapsody, etc. so I got an ion turntable to help me in my vinyl conversion. …
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Top Ten Oral Biography Questions

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 06:04 PM  posted by mike.wade

Of all the questions I could have asked my wife in a recent oral biography recording for her life story, to which questions would our descendants most appreciate answers? The shortest list of questions I have of this nature numbers over 100 questions – the longest, well over 500 questions – far too many for our purposes.

If you had to narrow down the number of questions you could ask your parents or grandparents about their life story to, say, ten questions, what would they be?

These are the top ten questions I selected for her to answer in behalf of our children and grandchildren: “As you look back over your life so far…

  1. What are you happiest about?
  2. What “tickles your fancy” or what most interests you?
  3. What, if anything, worries you most?
  4. What counsel would you give your children and grandchildren?
  5. What are your greatest strengths?
  6. In what areas, if any, do you need most to improve?
  7. Of all the things you have done in your life, what have you enjoyed most, or which ones have brought the greatest pleasure?
  8. When you appear before your Maker at the last day, what will He say?
  9. Do you have a witness or testimony of religious belief, and if so, will you share it?
  10. What are the three greatest desires of your heart?”

What questions, if any, would you have asked instead? Feel free to share them with our readers below.

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