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...camera? If you adore being able to view your pictures onscreen within seconds of taking them but abhor trying to figure out the best way to share them with friends and family, you're not alone. E-mail attachments often don't come through correctly or take forever to download. And most online photo albums have limited viewing and saving options. Here are three smart new alternatives...
SHAREALOT This program sends photos directly from your hard drive to your recipients', bypassing everyone's e-mail. When you download the program from sharealot.com a yellow icon of a digital camera will appear on your desktop. Select the "create a new share" option, and follow the clear directions for selecting and sending pictures. Files are automatically compressed to save upload and download time. When the photos reach their destination, an alert pops up on the computer, and recipients can immediately click to view the already downloaded shots. ShareALot works on Macs and PCs; recipients need the program...
OURPICTURES While ShareALot is the simplest photo-sharing option, OurPictures offers a more attractive interface and lets you edit photos before sending them. Photo-editing tools include rotation, cropping, red-eye reduction and brightness controls. Recipients don't have to download any software. From an e-mail notification, they simply click on a link that takes them to a website where they can view and download pictures. Available for download in a free test version at ourpictures.com the program will cost $20 a year (for senders only) once the final version is released...
...Francisco, London and Benares, India. "We focus on the stories behind the walls," says Michel Sitruk, head of business development for Soundwalk. "We want to give a sense of the pulse of a neighborhood." Besides selling its CDs through book retailers, the company has made a deal with download site Audible.com, the spoken-word audio-content provider for iTunes. Now you can immerse yourself in the sounds of Chinatown without leaving Kansas...
...want to start this column by fulfilling a promise I made last week to Jack Valenti, the outgoing president of the Motion Picture Association of America, when he came to speak to Crimson editors about copyright law and the internet. Here it goes: Downloading or copying music or movies to which you have no “fair use” claim (this is probably true of most of the music you download) is illegal. Any given offense infringes upon an exclusive right to a monopoly bestowed upon the copyright holder by Congress, and they...