Stilgs Xmas Tech Tip - Online Photo Storage

 

Storing Photos/Videos Online - With Windows Sky Drive and Windows
Live Photo Gallery 2011

We all have digital cameras, iphones, blackberries etc.. We all take
millions of photos/videos. We all store these on our computers and if we are
good we also back them up onto external drives/cds or dvds.

But what happens when you computer dies, harddrives crash or you delete
files, its the end of the world as you may have lost your only copy of your
photos/videos.

Solution - Store you photos/videos online for free.

There are a few options online - picasa web, flikr, facebook but today i
will talk about Skydrive (so much space and so little $$$).

Skydrive

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive-get-started

Using an existing windows live account (eg hotmail.com or live.com) log ito www.live.com and click on the skydrive menu.

You automatically get 25Gb of storage.

You can manually add photo albums or individual photos/videos through this
web site (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive-upload-photos-using)

Or you can use Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery?os=other

Import photos from your camera, organize them into albums, and edit them so
they look their best and then publish your photos and videos to your skydrive
storage.

You can also share your albums to facebook from your skydrive
account.

So before its too late make sure you take these steps to save you fav
photos/videos.