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...this loony exercise in self-love is kind of like overhearing two people you know having sex: you really don't want to be there. The package is filled with creamy pictures of Streisand and husband James Brolin--including Streisand in her wedding dress, for God's sake. The disc itself is a sequence of squishy love songs that would embarrass Lionel Richie. Hard to believe that someone who could perpetrate this once had taste. Or sense...
Here's another solution that I should have mentioned: Seattle Filmworks www.seattlefilmworks.com) which provides a relatively inexpensive way to digitize your film. It too will put pictures on a disc and, even cooler, will post them on a private website whose address you can share with friends and family. Some might object to a mail-only (at least, outside the West Coast) operation--you have to send in your film, and the company returns it a week or so later. But the prices are competitive, and friends who've used the service swear by it. Best of all, Seattle Filmworks...
Finally, in the Oh-Bonehead-Me Department: in a column about "burning" your own CDs, I said you could compress CDs to the MP3 format (roughly a tenth the original size), then record the songs to a CD-R disc. But how would you play it? Answer: only on your computer. If you want to play MP3s in your CD player, you need to convert the tunes to .wav files--MusicMatch and Real.com's software will do that--then burn them. The files, of course, will expand tenfold. So forget about squeezing 10 albums onto...
...compression scheme that allows the digital music in CDs to be shrunk to a tenth its size and still sound great. MP3 songs are small enough to be traded online, and they are by the millions--to the consternation of record companies, which fear that everything ever released on disc will end up online for free...
...only problem I ran into came from clueless photo finishers. My local photo store claimed it sold Picture CD, but it turned out I was being offered another Kodak service, called Photo CD--a photos-to-disc process geared toward professionals that has been around for seven years, costs more than twice as much and requires users to have their own image-editing software. Another issue: Mac users will have to wait until summer's end for Picture CD. It may be worth it. I found that Picture CD gave me as much technology as I needed. The only thing...