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Yahoo! Photos to Close on September 20th

Posted by on Aug 21, 2007 | 21 Comments

Do you use Yahoo! Photos? Get ready to move your pics! You may have missed the announcement last week. Yahoo! is closing its Yahoo! Photos service in favor of its wildly popular Flickr. Yahoo! Photos users can move their photos over “with a couple clicks” to a number of outfits, although many popular photo printing services are not included in the swap. I found this note from Yahoo! buried in my inbox:

We will officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT.</strong> Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to move to another photo sharing service (Flickr, KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket). We’re making the transfer real simple, and with a couple clicks we’ll automatically move your photos to Flickr or wherever you want them. You can also download your original-resolution photos back to your computer, or buy an archive CD from our featured partner (for users of the New Yahoo! Photos only). All you need to do is tell us what to do with your photos before we close, after which any photos remaining on Yahoo! Photos will be deleted and no longer accessible.

Photo print providers not offered include: ClarkColor, dotPhoto, Sony ImageStation, Photoworks, RitzPix, and SmugMug.

[tags]photo printing, photo finishing, photo sharing[/tags]

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  • http://roslishafiee.com Rosli

    i just move it, they upgrade my flickr account to a pro until mid of oct 07.

  • Steve

    I’ve opened the link from their email 3 times and still haven’t figured out what I’m supposed to do to accomplish the transfer!

  • http://picturesync.net/yahoo-photos/ Jacob

    We’ve released a last-minute free Windows utility to rescue photos, albums and their annotations from Yahoo! Photos. If you don’t want to use the Yahoo! suggested services this should make the process of downloading fairly painless.

  • Anonymous

    I guess the changes are because they are trying things out. I gather that, because it is a beta, meaning not yet a final product. Glad to see your points, but juding by the changes that came every two weeks in Lion testing, and the fact that we are likely 8 weeks or so from it launching, I am sure some of these issues, if not all, will be addressed.

    • http://twitter.com/imjameshall James Hall

      couldn’t agree more. Its kind of pointless to write an article like this on beta software. Thats like writing a game review of a game while its still in beta.

  • http://twitter.com/bgilham Brian Gilham

    Agreed. I really don’t see the point in commenting on beta software.

  • http://geekanddad.wordpress.com/ Dad

    There’d better be a way to turn off having it show the details in the lock screen or else the privacy issues are rather severe (!)

  • http://joconor.myopenid.com/ Jay

    iOS 5 is a beta, and it’s under NDA. The correct place to voice these concerns is directly to Apple, not in public. It is not a finished product. You are misleading people to report on iOS 5 in its current state as anything could change before release.

    If you want to be helpful, report your concerns at http://bugreport.apple.com and don’t violate your NDA (or don’t aid and abet others in violating their NDA).

    • http://www.phasedma.com Anthony

      Wait. Apple has put software that violates patents under a NDA?

      Well I suppose that is actually logical… Since you know… Google should sue the life out of Apple for these. God knows Apple would, and their patents are almost never valid.

      Maybe Apple thinks that if they mess up the notifications enough Google won’t care?

  • Anonymous

    While I mostly agree with the points made here, it feels a bit premature? I think commentary like this is important, and belongs in the hands of the Apple devs making changes to the beta every version. But to call notifications in iOS 5 a total mess, when it’s not officially done?

  • http://twitter.com/seanohe Sean O’Connell

    Is this something that would get fixed through updates to the apps themselves?

    It seems like on Android, app developers anticipate the notification bar and program it in, compared to developers of iOS who, til now have not had to worry about it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/jake.w.smith Jacob Winterton Smith

      That’s exactly right, programming alerts and notifications are entirely up to the developer. We have to program it to respond to certain events in the code, and then decide how it’s presented.

  • http://twitter.com/HarryMonmouth Harry Monmouth

    I personally think this article serves a useful function. It is interesting to see the development of iOS and who know’s, maybe someone up there is paying attention.

    • http://www.facebook.com/jake.w.smith Jacob Winterton Smith

      They pay more attention to bug reports, and anyone with beta access can make them. Apple has done a very good job at addressing bugs and feature requests. I just recently started developing on iOS and I’ve been very impressed with their developer support.

  • https://profiles.google.com/kyphem Realist

    This is why you jailbreak and use tons of available tools.

  • http://www.jillducey.com Jill Ducey

    I love my iPhone 4 yet I miss many of the UX and UI features of WebOS on my Pre. The notifications were useful and easy to interact with in most cases.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jake.w.smith Jacob Winterton Smith

    Please stop, I’m tired of seeing articles treating current iterations of the beta as final. This is all subject to change and they’ve been tweaking it a great deal, as pointed out with the change in lockscreen notifications from b1 to b2. We still have a long way to go until the fall release. If you do have access to the beta and see something that could be improved, then I urge you to report it to bugreport.apple.com. Also, some notification behavior can’t be helped until Apple starts accepting 5.0 app submissions as some notification behavior is decided on how they are programmed into a specific app. I know you’re just trying to provide some good content, but now is not the time to be overly-critical of iOS 5 as it’s still a work in progress.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ciobansorin Sorin Cioban

    iOS 5 is not finished yet. That’s why it’s called a BETA. It is for specific people – developers – not for bloggers and for devices you actually use right now. If you’re not satisfied, talk to Apple, but don’t influence people.

    As a side note, there are icons next to the notifications.

  • Anonymous

    I bought a DLP a few years ago and had nothing but problems. About a month after getting it the lamp went out and it took 2 weeks for a repairman to replace it. It never worked properly and I was told to bad so sad. It quit working again about a year in and was told it couldn’t be fixed. I had insurance on it and received a check for the full price. I could not recommend this product ever.

  • Anonymous

    I bought a DLP a few years ago and had nothing but problems. About a month after getting it the lamp went out and it took 2 weeks for a repairman to replace it. It never worked properly and I was told to bad so sad. It quit working again about a year in and was told it couldn’t be fixed. I had insurance on it and received a check for the full price. I could not recommend this product ever.