Help me start fresh/web photo hosting review post # 16

[SplshMtn99]

FYI, #2 on that review list was Webshots. I stopped using them YEARS ago after they started deleting Disney scrapbook pages from my album due to what they called "copyright infringement". My scrapbook page included a postcard of Mickey & even had the Disney copyright logo on the postcard.

Had those same pages loaded on PhotoPoint & Epson over the years (both now out of business) and never had a picture deleted for copyright.

I've put photos on 4 sites over the years. 2 have gone out of business. 1 gave no warning. LOTS OF PEOPLE lost pictures. I couldn't believe people were storing photos online & not keeping them somewhere else too. YIKES! This was years ago, I hope people have learned my now. Epson at least gave a few months notice so you could start taking your photos if you needed to.

 

[MICKEY88]

FYI, #2 on that review list was Webshots. I stopped using them YEARS ago after they started deleting Disney scrapbook pages from my album due to what they called "copyright infringement". My scrapbook page included a postcard of Mickey & even had the Disney copyright logo on the postcard.

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technically that would be copyright infringement, and they could be held liable if they knowingly allowed that to be hosted on their site

 

[Troop o' Goofs]

Google has the program/webhost picasa. It allows free uploads up to a certain # of mb, but you can "upgrade" for a price and store more photos. Just to add another to the list.

 

[DueyDooDah]

...One caveat is that both accept only JPG files and not RAW files. If you are shooting RAW, you won't be able to use any online photo site (that I'm aware of) for archiving those files...

As Kat4Disney pointed out, Smugmug has this service available now. It seems to allow you to save your original work in a safe place and it renders JPG files for normal use. At least that's what I read. I don't have an account (yet) so can't determine how it really works.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I'm wondering about watermarks. Seems like you have to get the pro package on some of these sites in order to get it. I'm trying to figure out exactly how it works if you DIY vs do it on the site? Can anyone explain the ins and outs of watermarking?

Anyone here using dotphoto?

We were able to recover three groups of photos off the CF card using the CD that came with it.

Finally figured out the external enclosure thing. The hard drive didn't fit at first but there was something that, once it came out, made it fit. So we're going to run that tomorrow and hopefully recover the rest of the pictures that way. BTW, it was $24 at Radio Shack but $40 at Best Buy.

 

[ffpm63]

I know I'm alittle late posting this but an idea for your photo and back up is HP has a new product called a mediasmart home server it is capable of holding up to 4 1TB drives you can set it up to automaticly back-up all of your computers every night You can store your photo on it and set t two store them on 2 of the drives. It monitors drive health and lets you know if one is going bad. It also has a virtual Raid so if one drive goes bad you can replace it and it will rebuild the replaced drive. The other nice feature is it has web access capability to share photos with your friends and while at Disney or other places you can transfer your pictures to the server at home via the internet. They have it setup to do this with a standard DSL or cable connection. Nothing special needed just use the wizard to set up a web address and Dynamic DNS all build in and user friendly.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

That's a good product to know about, ffpm63.

Here's a link w/demo if anyone's interested. http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/447351-0-0-225-121.html

I am just home from vacation and haven't made any firm decisions yet.

 

[Groucho]

Old news now, but if your hard drive is clicking, that's a pretty bad sign. Getting the PXE message at startup usually means that the laptop doesn't even recognize that the hard drive exists (you can verify this by going into the BIOS - probably F10 at startup for an HP though I'm not sure off the top of my head - and seeing if it sees the drive or not)... and if the laptop doesn't recognize it, it's unlikely that any computer will see it when you plug it in as an external.

For reference for anyone else, the cheapest thing to do is just pick up a basic external USB adapter cable... NewEgg often has one (a ByteCC, IIRC) on sale that will connect IDE or SATA drives for quite cheap. Although I see that the current "normal" price is $30, I'm pretty sure I've seen them put it on sale for quite a bit less. An IDE-only one is $18. Both work with desktop or laptop drives.