I’m a minimalist at heart, and technology is truly perfect for minimalists! A single laptop or tablet meets my needs thoroughly! More often than not, though, I’m conflicted. I don’t always enjoy using technology like I know I should. While…  Read More ›

It's been a busy summer, and I haven't had time to do some fun stuff that I'd planned - like work on my blog. Today, I'm trying to remedy that. I've been working on the template, and am checkout various things I can do on the WordPress hosted version, when I run across this sweet little gem: It looks like a picture while I'm typing, so I continue unaware. But the minute, I hit publish, POOF!, it turns into a sign that I'm a stealer of bandwidth. mmmmm When I first started selling on eBay (years and years ago), I came across a great little tidbit of information. Put your pictures on Photobucket and link them. YES! it worked on everything, eBay, my blog, my webpages! Absolutely everything. Until they changed their policy his summer. And now, I have 100s of pictures left suffering in their hands. Goodness knows where I've linked them all and where that badge of shame will show up. I can get them out of hock, for a mere $399 annual fee. Yes, all this can be ...

I realized I had multiple copies of some photos on my phone. That's what started this adventure. Well, maybe I should say restarted. Back in time before phones were as smart as they are, I decided to digitize all our photos. I had to use a scanner though. Phones are much faster. Decisions to be made include: where to keep the digitized photos for perpetuity. I've already got pix in several places. Too hard to find and not good for sharing. I mainly used photobucket before. I don't think I'll keep it because it's not easy to maneuver. what editing app to use ( I almost typed software here. How yesterday. ;) ) how to organize the photos. which ones to keep. I'm trying to approach this like weeding books, but I'm finding it to be much more difficult. I've tried a couple of apps on my phone. Heirloom  - not bad. It allows you to keep your photos in albums as well as to share them. Lacks an editing component, and it's kind of clunky. Camera+  ...

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