Want to give your old slide collection new life? How much fun would it be to break out the old Kodachromes, ditch the projector and remake those old slideshows digitally? With the online service Animoto, not only is it easy to spin wildly creative video slideshows, its fun and mostly automatic. So get out that [...]

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Perhaps for the first time ever, it seems possible to create new ways of doing things simply with an idea, inspiration and the right amount of technical savvy. Thanks to Moore’s Law,  ecosystem innovators like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos and the rapid evolution of highly available (and affordable) software services and technical infrastructure (for [...]

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Scanning old photo prints can be tough, laborious work. Often, it takes expensive scanners and technical chops to get high quality images from old photographic prints, ….right?  Well maybe. Now, (and you could have guessed this) there’s a nifty new iPhone app called ShoeBox, that’s designed to scan photos with your iPhone. That’s right, thanks to the [...]

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This year’s PhotoPlus, the annual east-coast photo industry conference, was held last week at the Javits Center in New York City. This year the expo included over 300 exhibitors and over 100 seminars and sessions. On Friday, a small contingent of FotoBridge photography geeks made the trek up the NJ Turnpike to check out all the hoopla [...]

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One of the challenges of the digital age is the sheer volume of image data that you can amass on a home computer system. Digital pictures, scanned images and videos consume a great amount of the available space on any hard drive. Whether you elect to store the files on your local machine, in the [...]

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Mobile apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have revolutionized mobile phone photography, transforming the lenses built into smart phones into retro-style cameras like the Diana, Holga and Lomo. They have not only created a unique niche of retro iPhonography but these free apps have morphed into online social communities structured around image sharing. The web site [...]

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Imagine returning from a vacation to discover that you’ve been the victim of a break in and that the thieves took not only your computer but the external hard drives containing your digital backup of personal photos and videos. That was a recent reality for my aunt and it proved to be a devastating loss, [...]

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Beyond the pure emotional satisfaction of revitalizing and securing old photos, newly digital photos are valued not only for the images themselves, but also for the information they contain. One way to enhance and increase the informative properties of digital images is to capture or create annotations that can be preserved as part of the [...]

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XtremeCamera.com is a popular online photography magazine dedicated to providing top-notch reviews, opinions, interviews and exhibits of fine photography. Recently, the publication conducted a review of FotoBridge’s service for it’s readers. While this Review Notes category generally covers our take on products and services for people interested in photographic preservation and imaging, we turned the [...]

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SmugShot lets you snap a photo with your Apple iPhone and instantly upload it “from the scence” to any one of your SmugMug galleries.  Now that’s the power you get when using these slick Apps for the iPhone connected (wirelessly) with web-based services, such as SmugMug and others.  That’s remote, instantaneous sharing of images from [...]

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