Every weekday, our guide to the Web takes care of business, tackling tech topics that really matter to everybody. From topic definitions to topical rants, Dan Gray’s pieces inform as much as they entertain.
What do you do when your digital camera breaks? Do you toss it in a drawer and go shopping? Or do you look to get it fixed? Once upon a time, every town of a decent size had a place to get your TV fixed, your shoes repaired, your watches tweaked (remember the watchmaker?), and [...]
I’ve had my eye out for a cheap network attached storage (NAS) device for my home/office network for a while now. But the cheapest NAS was never truly cheap … until now. I was pleasantly surprised when a post from Chuck’s Deals arrived in my mailbox today … Chuck turned up an insanely cheap NAS [...]
I finally got around to revising my online digital print price comparison chart last month. The shocker? The lowest price for a 4×6 digital photo print is now only six cents.
4×6 print price levels remained steady for the most part, but a number of photo print providers dropped the prices on their 5×7 and 8×10 [...]
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 [...]
It’s getting hard to to remember those bad old days … back when we had to pay to develop and print each and every photograph on a roll of film. Come to think of it, the mere thought of a roll of film is quaint. (A roll of what?) The ability to print only the [...]
I’m sick of looking at digital photo frames. It’s not that the idea isn’t insanely cool … it’s just that for the most part they’re missing the obvious. Nearly every town has at least one shop devoted to making custom conventional picture frames to fit the decor of the room in which they’ll be displayed. [...]
Need to scan a really big original piece of artwork? Is your local shop’s large format scanner not up to the task? Graham Nash, best known for his work with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, allegedly owns the biggest scanner in the world. It pays to pay attention to that in-flight entertainment …
I was in [...]
The hard drive in one of my desktop computers neared the saturation point today. I went looking for junk to toss and quickly came to the conclusion that I had no choice other than move a bunch of big files off the box. The shorts I’ve been posting to Google Video and YouTube have eaten [...]
Looking for a really cool gift for Valentines Day or another special occasion? You should consider printing on canvas! Don’t worry, you don’t have to try to stuff the fabric through your desktop printer … you simply send your digital file out to a firm that specializes in printing on canvas. Their highly-tuned over-sized ink [...]
Still haven’t found the perfect 2007 calendar? Have I got a deal for you! PhotoWorks is offering a whopping 50% off their custom photo calendars through the end of the month. How cool would it be to have a fully customized family photo calendar? Way cool, baby … and just in time for Valentines [...]
The online photo labs are battling it out for your post-holiday snap business. Isn’t it time you think twice before plunking down those big bucks on yet another set of ink cartridges (that seem like they drain themselves while you’re not looking)?
A whole slew of digital photo printers are offering free photo print deals to [...]
I bought a new camcorder this week at the big box store. It’s an inexpensive JVC DV unit that’s equipped with Firewire, USB, and a SD slot. The salesman was very helpful, but he missed one important detail. I made a point of asking, “is everything in the box, short of tapes and the memory [...]
Every year, about this time, I vow to create my own custom holiday cards. This is the year I do it. I’m finally going to create a custom holiday card to annoy and amaze all of my friends and associates. Having cut my teeth in the printing and design world, I’ve always been too [...]
We have an inexpensive digital photo printer in our house, but it doesn’t get much use these days. After experiencing the painful economic realities of photo ink cartridges and paper, printing photos at home just doesn’t make sense … except for those rare occasions when we need a photo printed immediately. At those times, unfortunately, [...]
Now that Labor Day has come and gone, there’s a good chance that your digital camera’s crammed full of summer vacation photos and your budget’s just about busted. If you’re a faithful reader, you know where to find the cheapest photo printing service. But what you might not know is where those cheap photos are [...]
The word from Japan is that Canon is shutting the door on film-based camera development. With Nikon stopping production of the majority of its film cameras and Konica’s impending departure from the world of film, call it a trifecta. Que up the rise of the online photo labs, and the digital revolution marches on … [...]
I’m a sports photographer wannabe — shooting soccer matches (for the most part) with a Canon Digital Rebel SLR. Overall, I’ve been happy with the Digital Rebel over the past two years. The Canon’s held up well (knock wood), but I’ve run into a bit of a snag of late. Unfortunately, I had to skimp [...]
Coming soon to a chain store near you … self-service Hewlett-Packard Photo Kiosks! HP bills their new Photosmart Express station as “the most advanced standalone, self-service photo kiosk dedicated to producing 4 x 6-inch prints quickly.” Welcome to a market filled with cannibals, as aggressive online photo printers battle the discount chains …
Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day present? Sure, chocolates and flowers are wonderful, but they’re usually done by the time the week is out. What’s that? You’re on a tight budget? If you’re looking to give a personal gift that makes a big impression and lasts forever and a day, here’s a geeky hint [...]
Looking for the hot ticket in digital cameras this holiday season? Step right up. Kodak’s brand-spanking new EASYSHARE-ONE is “the world’s first Wi-Fi consumer camera.” EASYSHARE-ONE’s 802.11b technology lets owners upload (and browse) pictures using Kodak’s online gallery service from home, business, and public Wi-Fi networks. Hooking up USB cables and popping out memory [...]
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