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How To Upload Pictures To Flickr
Last week, I helped you pick out a new digital camera, and showed you how to download your photos to your computer, but which program should you use to manage and share them online? Flickr is still my go-to site for archiving pictures because it allows you to put your pictures on the web and view your friends' archives. Because of the site's added tagging feature, it's easy to categorize your photos and explore photos by photographer, tag, time, text and place.
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Tech Dating 101: How Can I Tell If He's Into Me Online?
Trying to navigate the the online dating scene and feel like you're swimming upstream? Get your digital dating questions answered in geeksugar's Tech Dating 101 series, where I share my take on topics like gadgets in the boudoir and texting during a date. Today I'm tackling how to tell if someone is using the Internet to flirt with you, or just playing the friend game.
Three Photos Sites to Make Your Life Easier
Online photo management sites like Flickr sure do offer a ton of features and editing tools. But what about other things you need to do with your pics — like being able to post them on your social network pages from your phone, or finding a fast site to host them, and even a way to easily share high-res photos? Don't worry, I've got you covered; check out the free helpful sites below that do all of the above and more!
Make The Best Of Your Digital Photos
Despite the bajillions of online photo management and sharing sites that allow users to upload photos and create online archives, Flickr is still one of our favorites. The site is clean, easy to use and so long as you pay the yearly subscription fee of $25, offers fool proof options for organizing, geotagging and enjoying your photography.
The trouble is, the joy of trolling through your own photo archives and even your friends' collections can wear off pretty quickly.
Geek Tip: Get Flickr Email Notifications
Having a flickr account is kinda like having an email account—you always have to check it for new messages, which can get very tedious. Thankfully flickr is now offering to send email notifications via email when people comment on your photos or when your contacts upload new photo—so you don't have to keep checking it. According to Lifehacker, this isn't a brand new feature, just something that has gone unnoticed by many!
Geek Tip: Search Flickr With Fun Tag Browser
One of my favorite things about using Flickr is playing with all the fun applications and alternative ways to view archived photos. If you've already checked out retrievr, Spell With Flickr and Depictr, you should check out the Flicker Related Tag Browser, which offers a beautiful display of images and image tags related to your search.
For example, My "cookies" search turned up a ring of tags like "chocolate," "mint," "food," "dough," "foodporn" and "baking."
How to Make Your Wedding Slideshow
In your wedding planning mania, don't forget the touches to the wedding that are distinctly you — and one way to remind your guests of what is you, literally — is photo slideshows! Slideshows are awesome for weddings, whether you want one to show at the wedding, the reception, rehearsal, and showers — as well as making one from the wedding and honeymoon itself, to have for you and your honey to keep for yourselves.
Luckily, software and tech helpers have evolved, preventing your slideshow from being a cheesy affair — remember the days of photo collages at weddings?
Use Geotagging To Plan Your Vacation
Geotagging, or adding geographical identification to images (usually latitude and longitude coordinates or place names) was once a feature reserved to the most extreme Flickr and online photo community addicts, but it turns out it's proving helpful to even the average geek. This weekend's New York Times travel feature "Snapshots That Do More Than Bore Friends" looked at how through geotagging, users can add G.P.S. data to their pictures, which can then be plotted on a digital map and actually aid friends and even strangers in planning their own vacations.
Top 7 Reasons to Scan Your Old Photos
While most of us have switched to digital cameras we all have boxes and photo albums lingering in our closet and under our bed. It can be daunting to even consider scanning all your pictures, but it's certainly worth it. Why you wonder?
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