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Facebook has for a long time been the place where we post our photos online. Why? Because it's a convenient place where everyone we know can see what we’re up to. But what about an easy way to make sure those photos are safe should anything happen to Facebook or our own profile? Thankfully, there are several tools you can use.
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One of the benefits of using Google's online services is that all your media and documents can be integrated across platforms and with various Android and iOS mobile apps. This form of integration means for example that you can access photos uploaded to the web version of your Google Picasa Web Albums account on your mobile devices, in your Google+ account, as well as in supporting mobile third-party applications.
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If you are looking for another quick way to offload and back up photos on your Android, Amazon recently released an update to its Cloud Drive Photos app (released last November), which automatically saves photos on your phone to the Cloud, and in turn makes them available for viewing and download on supporting Android devices. The update is similar to the automatic upload functionality found in Google's Google+ and Dropbox apps.
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Flickr has one of the largest collections of Creative Commons images. The Creative Commons set of licenses allows everyone from educators, artists, and authors to tap into this invaluable source and use the photo for their creative works. The Flickr Commons archive has grown from its humble beginnings on January 16 2008 with 1,500 photos to a mammoth collection of more than 250,000 photos in just five years.
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Between Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, you probably have a lot of photographs that you've uploaded to the web. It becomes a pretty unwieldy task trying to keep track of all your images in so many different places. While there have been a few sites to pop up that aim to merge the experience, making it easy to access all of your online photos in one place, few do it as well as Stipple.
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If you're looking for another way to share your photos and videos on your iPhone and other supporting iOS devices, you might want to check out two free apps—Cloudee and Colugo. These two apps are similar to services like Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram, but they provide a way to share your videos and photos with specific groups of contacts, without the hassle of emailing them each time you upload content to either of the accounts.
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Last May, I wrote about Apple's iOS photo sharing feature, Photo Stream, which automatically syncs photos to a users' iCloud account where they can be accessed in one or more of a user's iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) or Mac computer. Since that time Apple has added a few important features and enhancements to Photo Stream that might go unnoticed by new Apple customers.
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Ever since I upgraded to the iPad Mini, I quickly realized I will never use my original 16GB iPad 1 in the same way I've used it for the last two years. But instead of selling it, I've decided to make it a dedicated family media album that can be loaded up with all my favorite family photos, videos, and even a few favorite song playlists for background music purposes.
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If you use Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, and Picasa, chances are your photos are a big scattered mess. Not to mention the ton of photos you've probably got sitting in your harddrive as well. If you've been looking for one place where you can bring all of those photos together - look no further than Snapjoy. Snapjoy makes it easy to connect all of your accounts.
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If you've been looking for a way to keep photos on your Mac organized, and iPhoto isn't cutting it for you, a new beta app might have you covered. Free for as long as it's in beta, Pixa is an easy to use app that makes it easy to keep your photos organized, back them up to the cloud, and open photos in external apps. In addition to keeping you organized, Pixa comes with a few pretty cool features which make it easy to stay organized, inspired and more.
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How many photos would you say you have? More than a hundred? Six hundred? A thousand? Pictures are a big part of all of our lives, but there is else something which is equally important and that is where those precious pictures are stored. You likely keep the majority of them on your computer (although more and more, we are relying on smartphones). But what happens when you add them to your computer? Do you organize them?
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With the amount of information we post online, we're putting an awful lot of faith in third party services to keep our content and photos safe. Between Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, there's no limit to the way we share our images online. And thanks to a few other third party services, there's no limit to the ways we can back up our online photos to our computers.
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Ever since its initial release, the iPad has been for me the best mobile tool for showcasing photos. While several basic iPad image programs, including the built-in Photo app, are great for photo management and quick slide shows, the latest version of the Pholium iPad app includes tools for actually creating ebooks.
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Have you ever wanted to make a real hard-copy book of the things you have in Facebook? Maybe you have relatives who aren't on Facebook but would love to see the pictures you've put in there. Or maybe you're keen to preserve a snapshot of what your life was like this year. Did you realise that it's really easy to make a book of your Facebook?
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When I want to share private family photos, I find in the long run that iPhoto is still one of the most useful ways to manage and share many of my most cherished pictures. iPhoto 9 has a few elegant free options for both sharing photos and making sure they are still around for years to come. If you're not a heavy user of iPhoto, you may not know about its email collage feature, and its built-in integration with Flickr and Facebook.
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