Your Digital Life

Flickr has lost some of its cachet as other photo services and social networks have risen in the intervening years to challenge it. But the Yahoo-owned company has just made a number of significant improvements that should make Flickr very attractive to people looking for an online home for their photos. Among the big ticket improvements: you [...]

A new report in Mother Jones suggests that the popular photo site Shutterfly has some serious security holes. It’s worth reading the whole piece for a sense of the issue, but here’s a snippet: This spring, with millions of kids across the United States participating in sports leagues and other activities, coaches and harried parents are [...]

We all know mom has a soft spot for her family photos. This Mother’s Day, we rounded up five of our favorite photo-themed gifts for mom: 1. A Photo Book: This is fast becoming a holiday favorite, and for good reason. Photo books are easy to make and create long-lasting photographic statements that mom can [...]

It may be hard to believe, but it’s true: your digital photos captured with the latest and greatest technology may not last as long as the old film photos you snapped a generation ago. The reason is simple – in the old days, the only way you’d lose your photos is if some massive catastrophe [...]

Using a photo scanning service to get all your photo prints, slides, and negatives digitized is becoming hugely popular. Once old photos are scanned they can be easily added to your digital image collection, digitally archived and backed-up for safe keeping, and be instantly shared online. Saving time and getting the highest quality results possible [...]

Among our phones, cameras and camcorders, we’re taking billions of photos a year. The website 1000memories.com estimated that “every two minutes we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity did in the 1800s.” Facebook alone receives roughly 300 million photo uploads per day. That’s a lot. It’s like a flood of digital data [...]

When it comes to your digital photos, the truth is there’s no better way to store them for the future than to print them. Not all of them, of course, you’d go broke, but the keepers. And when it comes to printing your photos, you have plenty of choices: you can upload photos to online [...]

Into every life, a little rain must fall. Some lives, however, get drenched, as the recent “super storm” that devastated homes on the East Coast reminded us. That storm, and others like it, drove home for many of us just how precious our photographic memories really are. Sadly, in the digital age, those memories aren’t [...]

With more of our digital life migrating online to cloud storage services like Box or Google Drive, we’re increasingly relying on passwords to keep our data safe. Unfortunately, most of us have very bad password habits. We make passwords that are easy to guess (the most popular password is “password”) and so short and unsophisticated [...]

After the holidays, most of us wind up with dozens (if not hundreds) of photos and video clips. As the warm glow of the eggnog starts to fade,  it’s time to tackle this digital pile. Here’s a few tips to help you get started: 1. Get them off the camera (or phone) or camcorder ASAP: [...]