Katie reviews Windows Live, Microsoft’s Web-based attempt to consolidate many of the regular activities you perform on the Internet: sharing photos on Flickr, emailing via Hotmail, posting status updates on Facebook, following tweets on Twitter, sending instant messages on Google Chat and keeping a calendar on Apple’s MobileMe.
The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.
Shutterfly has integrated simple photo sharing into personalized Web sites. Overall, this site-creating program does a nice job with minimal work on the user’s behalf, though it lacks a few useful features.
Most camera users don’t want to hassle with USB cords and slow upload speeds when transferring images onto a computer or photo-sharing site. The $100 Eye-Fi Card is a carefree solution to the aggravation.
With Yahoo closing its photo division, many people will have to find a new photo-storage and sharing service. In an effort to help users make the switch, Katherine Boehret outlines the pros and cons of five major photo-sharing sites.
A new, free, application called Pando lets you email huge attachments without breaching email size limits, or clogging anyone’s inbox. In our tests, it was simple, fast and effective.
Tabblo differs from other Web-based photo-sharing sites, offering features like dragging and dropping and editing all on the same page, without the annoying constant reloading that characterizes so many photo sites.
Smilebox offers templates for creating attractive virtual scrapbooks, slideshows, photobooks and postcards. The site’s design and simplicity also helps to make the photo-sharing service fun and easy to use.
Walt tests Hewlett-Packard’s speedy new Photosmart 8250 Photo Printer, a product that the company hopes will change the way you think about printing photos at home.
Edited by Walt and written by Katie Boehret, this is a guide to gadgets, web services and other consumer technologies.
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