Category: Technology Tips

Before the age of digital cameras and smartphones, we shared our photos with family and friends by purchasing extra prints and mailing them via snail mail. Today’s technology allows us to share photos and memories across the miles, with the click of a mouse or a tap on a screen. Unfortunately, this technology can make those photos and their data vulnerable. The privacy of your photos is important, and there are ways to protect the images you share. While we covered information specific to sharing photos in this previous blog post, here we shift our focus toward helping you understand […]

It’s Halloween…and it’s the time of year when you’ll see spooky decorations and creepy costumes everywhere. But to certain people (and you may be one of them)….what REALLY scares them is the term “metadata.” It sounds technical, confusing, and overwhelming. And it’s true….metadata is a little technical. But when you find out more about metadata and how it works, you’ll probably end up appreciating what it can do for you and your family photo collection! This post we will talk about about what metadata is (and how it can be helpful to you), then will give you some suggestions on […]

Actually, that’s a trick question! There’s a difference between backing up your photos for safekeeping, and sharing photos with your family and friends – and you need to use different tools for each one. This is a question that frequently comes up in conversations with my clients, so it’s important to clarify that these two tasks are not the same thing! You probably don’t want to share your entire photo collection – but you definitely need to back up the whole collection. Today’s post will be focused on sharing your photos using a cloud-based service, how various services store the […]