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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While just about everyone has heard of “the cloud” by now, the percentage of people who actually know what it is and understand how they can use it is still relatively small. According to a recent report from market researcher Ipsos OTX, only 40% of Americans understand cloud services and fewer than 9% are actually using [...]

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 [...]

One of the major trends emerging from the just-concluded Consumer Electronics Show is the migration of our digital content – photos, videos, music, documents, data – into the “cloud.” Of course, the cloud has been gaining steam for years now but with more and more people snapping photos and videos on their smartphones, a growing [...]

Cloud storage services are growing steadily in popularity whether it’s from smaller firms like Box or heavyweights like Apple and Amazon. Cloud services promise a secure back-up for your precious digital memories plus the ability to access those memories from a multitude of devices and computers – basically, if you have a Web browser, you’ll [...]

Tis the season for tech start-ups to make their pitch to the public, press and other investors. One firm coming out for the cash is Everpix, a cloud photo service. Here’s what Venture Beat had to say: Everpix is a desktop client that browses your computer for photos and uploads everything to a remote server [...]