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My Local.com Success Story

In 1990 Mitch Goldstone, president and CEO of Irvine, Calif.-based ScanMyPhotos.com and 30 Minute Photos Etc., began purchasing the largest-sized display ads for their photo finishing category with several of the larger phone companies’ Yellow Pages services.
In August 2007, Goldstone noticed his usual ad which had run [...]

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Unlimited Advantix – APS Film Scanning Just $4.98 Each Roll: (Save 50%) How Can I View My APS Advantix Film on the Computer?

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SAVE 50% ON APS FILM SCANNING – Free Return Shipping – Free Kodak Index Prints
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Now is the perfect time to have all your APS film cartridges professionally scanned and digitally preserved as jpeg files

Although APS (Advanced Photo [...]

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Shutterfly says 84 percent of brides-to-be plan to hire pro photographers, according to survey

 

Shutterfly Inc., Redwood City, Calif., an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, announced the results of a nationwide survey to help brides of all ages capture, share, and preserve wedding day memories. Not surprisingly, 84 percent of brides-to-be plan to hire a professional photographer for their wedding, according to a survey conducted for Shutterfly [...]

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KODAK Gallery and Slide Team Up, Making it Easy for People to Use Gallery Photos on Social Networks

KODAK Gallery and Slide, Inc., today announced a new service that enables Gallery’s 60 million members to seamlessly showcase their Gallery photos on their favorite social networks using Slide’s portable Slideshow product. With a combined Web audience of more than 200 million, the partnership brings together the world’s largest online photo service and personal media [...]

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Footnote.com Adds Millions of Historical Newspapers to Its Collection

Footnote.com announced today a new partnership with SmallTownPapers, Inc. that will add millions of pages of historical newspapers to the site. With over 28 million images of original documents already on Footnote.com, the historical newspapers will prove to be a valuable addition, providing a unique view of our nation’s history.
After using Footnote.com, SmallTownPapers President Paul [...]

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PENTAX Optio W60 Waterproof Digital Camera Shoots Deeper, Wider and at Colder Temps

PENTAX Imaging Company has announced the PENTAX Optio W60 compact digital camera. Lightweight and fully waterproof, the Optio W60 features 10 megapixels and a 5X zoom lens with 28mm wide-angle capability. The enhanced design of the Optio W60 allows the camera to operate up to 13 feet underwater for two hours and at extreme temperatures [...]

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KODAK Digital Technology to Provide Mission-Critical Images for Space Flight

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On the upcoming flight of space shuttle Discovery, planned for launch on May 31, 2008, KODAK Digital Technology will again be instrumental in capturing critical images and helping to safeguard the well-being of shuttle astronauts during re-entry back to earth.
KODAK CCD Image Sensors are a key component of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, an [...]

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David Cook Wins: Part Two, Via The Orange County Register

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Archuleta doesn’t win American Idol — Free photo scans for everyone anyway
May 21st, 2008, 11:48 pm by Gadgetress
Little David Archuleta did his aw-shucks best, but ultimately, rocker David Cook took this year’s title as the American Idol.
Mitch Goldstone, over at ScanMyPhotos.com, messaged me immediately admitting defeat. Early on, he [...]

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American Idol: David Cook Wins, And So Do You!

Congratulations, David Cook!

Within the last one hour, we have received more than 120 Live Support inquiries about the American Idol results. Our favorite, David Archuleta did not win the competition, but because of the replies being received, ScanMyPhotos.com has decided to extend the special 1,000 free scanning to all AI viewers anyway.
In fairness, it was [...]

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Free Photo Scanning If David Archuleta Wins American Idol

David Archuleta Isn’t Going to be the Only Winner on American Idol, if ScanMyPhotos.com’s Hunch is Correct; AI Viewers Will Also Capture Prize

The following posting was initially written several months ago. It all comes down to this: if David Archuleta wins this evening, ScanMyPhotos.com will be providing free photo scanning for the entire nation. According [...]

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ScanMyPhotos.com Media Profiles

Blog Postings | General News & Events | Important Updates

This Photo Scanning blog is where we offer regular updates and stories from our photo scanning headquarters. Also, look for regular tips and daily encounters from the world of photo scanning, slide scanning, negative scanning and photo restorations.

 

External Blog Reviews and Sample Customer Testimonials
NEWS PROFILES: As [...]

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Photo Scanning Profile: ScanMyPhotos.com

ScanMyPhotos.com is your affordable digital imaging photo project headquarters. Pay just $49.95 for up to 1,000 photo scans, or order our famous prepaid fill-the-box service for just $124.95. Your photographs are professionally scanned as 300 dpi JPG files onto a DVD-R data disc. ScanMyPhotos.com [30 Minute Photos Etc.] are experts at handling all photographic processing [...]

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Forbes.com selects the top 10 digital cameras for summer travel

As the summer vacation season approaches, anxious travelers may want to look into buying a digital camera that will function particularly well throughout their trip. Forbes.com recently named the top ten best digital cameras for the prepared travelers of all levels of skill.
  The Canon PowerShot A470 is a small, casual digital camera that is [...]

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Imaging-related companies receive honors in the 12th annual Webby Awards

This time next year, ScanMyPhotos.com hopes to win a Webby Award, but for this season, here are several of the current mentions.
 
Several imaging-related companies recently received a Webby Award. The Webby Awards, international awards honoring excellence on the Internet, are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of Web [...]

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Kodak Gallery offers digital picture frames, picture cards preloaded with members’ favorite photos

ScanMyPhotos.com regularly profiles companies that are providing new ways to share and store your pictures.  Having scanned millions of photos, slides and negatives, the question we often receive is what’s next?  Here is a terrific recommendation from and plug for our friends at Kodak.
Kodak Gallery, Emeryville, Calif., an online photo service with 70 million members worldwide, [...]

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University of Michigan graduates create new photo sharing website

University of Michigan graduates Kevin Borders and Joe Golden recently created a new type of photo sharing website, ScrapWalls.com. The website allows users to upload their high-resolution photos and arrange them into different shapes or designs. The end result allows users to scroll around and zoom in and out on a customized collage.
Borders, now a [...]

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How to backup your digitized photo images

Western Digital offers portable drives for Mac users
Western Digital Corp. (WD), Lake Forest, Calif., introduced its new Mac-formatted My Passport Studio Portable Drives. The new My Passport drives are designed for Mac users and are equipped with both FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces, a capacity gauge, and include a soft drawstring carrying bag for protection [...]

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Photo Restoration Part IV: when disaster strikes your photos

Precious memories last forever. Unfortunately, photographs do not. Photographs capture a moment of time to keep those memories alive, using a fragile blend of organic materials and modern technology. But as you’ve learned in the Photo Restoration Handbook, no matter how careful you are, it is practically inevitable that some of your cherished photographs will [...]

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Photo Restoration Part III: How to fix water damaged photographs

One of the most common photo restoration requests ScanMyPhotos.com gets is to fix one form or another of water damage. Whether it’s humidity or more severe contact with water, water damage brings us a lot of photo restoration business. We’d prefer to keep your family photos intact in the first place.
Whether your house was flooded or [...]

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Photo Restoration Part II: How to make your photos last a lifetime

Family photos are priceless. Like a memory, a photograph is a frozen moment, stolen from the grasp of time. A collection of photos is a visual history of your family, your friends, your life.
Most of us cherish our photos. That’s why we keep them safely stored in the attic, the basement, under our beds or [...]

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Photo Restoration Part I – What you don’t know CAN hurt your photos

A photographic image looks like something that will last forever, but even the most modern prints are not designed to last for more than a few decades. Black-and-white photographs, made up of light-sensitive silver salts known as silver halides, last longer. But color photographs and slides, which are made up of dyes and plastics, are [...]

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How to Restore and Fix Photos – Your Favorite Photos Never Looked So Good

ScanMyPhotos.com is your custom expert for restoring and enhancing your vintage photographs into works of art to be enjoyed and preserved for generations. Old pictures fade and degrade with time. Fix old and damaged photos with our custom professiongal Kodak-quality photo restoration today from ScanMyPhotos.com and 30 Minute Photo Etc. Since 1990, our customers have trusted us [...]

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Scanning Slides: How to Protect Your Generations of 35mm Mounted Slides

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The same super-fast photo scanning service is also available for scanning 35mm mounted slides. However, both slide and negative / film scanning are separate services, with special feature enhancements and different pricing rates. ScanMyPhotos.com digitally protects your slides too.
New, lower prices for custom online 35mm [...]

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Photo Scanning Tips

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How to Scan Photos Super fast

For smaller scanning jobs, when you have just a handful of pictures to digitize, we recommend you use a standard flat-bed scanner and do it yourself. But, when you have an entire generation of photos, consider this: Whether it’s 1,000 or 25,000 pictures, ScanMyPhotos.com provides same day scanning.

Cost to [...]

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Pictorial History of Las Vegas: Told Through Generations of Photo Snapshots

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Some things that happen in Vegas stays with you and most people don’t even remember it until decades later.
Did you know that nearly every household has priceless snapshots of Las Vegas’ past that span decades – from the era of Elvis, Liberace and “The Rat Pack,” to [...]

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Family Tree Magazine Genealogy Insider: “We’re Honored”

Reprint from Family Tree Magazine’s Genealogy Insider Blog this April 3rd posting:
We’re Honored – Posted by Allison

When it comes to recognizing useful genealogical tools and services, we’re used to doling out the honors—from our annual 101 Best Web Sites roundup to our “Libbys” libraries awards, coming in the July issue—rather than receiving them. But this [...]

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Two-Minutes to Prepare 10,000 Photos for Scanning With Kodak Technology at ScanMyPhotos.com

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Did you know: The average household has more than 10,000 photos in shoeboxes, spanning generations that need to be digitized, but how?
(Irvine, CA) — Free shipping and scanning 10,000 photographs for $495.00 with same day turnaround is the next “new-new thing” [...]

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Something Fun: Using Photography and Digital Imaging To Create Art

Tales from the World of Photo Scanning is all about sharing tips, commentaries and providing lots of super-discounted photo imaging specials. But, we are also about chronicling history through photography and identifying new trends and uses for digital imaging.

With the proliferation of digital and video cameras everywhere, it is easy to record events and make [...]

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Scanning photos just got super affordable, easy and fast

10,000 photos, free shipping, same day scanning, two free custom photo albums you design online at ScanMyPhotos.com. What a deal and all for $495.00. This Family Generations Collection is available right now. Click here to order your prepaid boxes today.
What happens if you only have a few hundred or a few thousand pictures to scan? [...]

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