Your Digital Life

While everyone is busy clicking away and capturing life’s memories in record numbers how many of us are really taking the necessary steps to preserve these images from digital disaster? With digital photography comes a whole new set of potential problems. While forgetting to backup your files could be financially disastrous for a pro, the [...]

External hard drives are the most popular method of photo and video back-up, right there with the increasingly archaic process of burning DVDs. The problem with external hard drives – like all hard drives – is that they’ll fail eventually, and quite possibly take your data with them. SanDisk has introduced a new external storage [...]

Eye Fi revolutionized the memory card with a wireless product that takes a lot of the work out of transferring your photos from your camera to your computer (and the Internet). Toshiba looks to take this concept to the next level with a new SD memory card called FlashAir that not only transfers image to [...]

Lexar announced today a new card reader that takes advantage of USB 3.0 for faster photo and video transfers to a computer. The new Dual-Slot Reader accepts the latest variety of CompactFlash and SDXC memory cards. It “pops” open to reveal the card slot and pops back down when not in use, to keep dust [...]

The Eye Fi memory card is one of the more ingenious solutions for easily transferring and organizing digital photos and videos. They’ve now announced the availability of a free upgrade to their X2 line of memory cards: Direct Mode. Using direct mode, you can transfer images from your camera to an Android or iPhone (or iPad) running [...]

The memory card reader category has entered the world of USB 3.0. If you’re wondering what that means to you, it’s all about speed and spending a little less time waiting to view your images on your PC once you’ve inserted your digital camera’s memory card. Among the manufacturers that are now offering USB 3.0 [...]

For far too long the images captured by mobile phones were forever trapped on the device and only shared electronically. As more and more mobile devices are now including a slot for removable media, consumers can now do much more with the images and video they capture and the microSDHC format has led that way. [...]

Fortunately, digital cameras have finally settled on two (well, maybe three) main memory card formats, but if you’re sitting on a lot of older cards with images on them and need a way to transfer them to your computer, meet the Lexar Multi-Card 24-in-1 USB Reader. That’s five slots and supporting 24 (count ‘em) popular [...]

The Eye Fi memory card is a great tool for photo-sharing and organizing, letting digital cameras and camcorders wirelessly upload images to multiple online destinations automatically. Now, its wireless capabilities are being used by a scanner, iVina’s BulletScan M40, so you can upload your photo print scans to the Internet – without needing a computer. [...]

When it comes to protecting your photos, the watchword is “redundancy.” It’s important to make multiple copies of the same image and store it on different storage media to make sure your photos stay safe for generations to come. The question is: what’s the best place to store your photos? We’ve run down the pros [...]