Review: ScanMyPhotos.com – by Jen Pleasants, ShowTheLove.com

And we LOVE you too, Jen. Thanks to Jen Pleasants. CEO of SHOWtheLOVE MEDIA, LLC for her wonderful ShowtheLOVE blog and mention of her experience with ScanMyPhotos.com.
Excerpt:
 
So my special gift I ordered for my husband for Christmas arrived and it is SO COOL! I had all of our old photos scanned (ones that were taken [...]

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4×8 Photo Greeting Cards

What is a photo greeting card?
A photo greeting card is a great way to send your holiday wishes along with a photograph to your family and friends. Each card is 4″x8″, includes a space for your photo and custom text, and ScanMyPhotos.com includes gold foil envelopes with every order. Choose from many different designs as [...]

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SmartMoney.com: Stand Out Profile – ScanMyPhotos.com

profiles
Stand Out: Power of Reinvention Keeps This Biz Owner Afloat
November 28, 2008
By Diana Ransom
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SMALL-BUSINESS OWNERS, what are you doing to stand out from the crowd? Each week, we focus on an entrepreneur who has lessons to share that we think will resonate with other small-business owners.
Mitch Goldstone, co-founder of ScanMyPhotos.com, answers our questions:
What [...]

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ScanMyPhotos.com: What is a Photo Index Book?

Photo Index Books Exclusively Designed by ScanMyPhotos.com

What is a photo index book?

The photo index book is ordered along with your photo scanning order designed to help you organize and show off your newly scanned images in a more elegant manner. They are 8½” x 11″ hard cover books with 25 images per page, approximately [...]

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Glenn Fleishman Discusses ScanMyPhotos.com on KUOW.org

Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter spoke about ScanMyPhotos.com in the two-o’clock hour on Nov 26th on KUOW radio. According to KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, he explored how to transform thousands of analog photos to digital with a simple service. Glenn Fleishman spoke with on air radio personality, Jeremy Richards. Click here for [...]

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4×8 Photo Greeting Cards

What is a photo greeting card?
A photo greeting card is a great way to send your holiday wishes along with a photograph to your family and friends. Each card is 4″x8″, includes a space for your photo and custom text, and includes gold foil envelopes with every order. Choose from many different designs as you [...]

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What We’re Reading and Using as Gifts – “Outlines: The Story of Success”

What we’re reading and sharing with others. If you want to also learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur and success in business, click here. Outliners: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, is the book that ScanMyPhotos.com is buying as gifts for our relatives and friends to inspire and dream big.
Amazon.com reader [...]

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Discounts and Free Stuff for the Holidays

Discounts and Free Stuff for the Holidays

Because we all want (and need) to save money, here is a menu of specials, free delivery items and super-smart savings from ScanMyPhotos.com and our entire category of photo imaging gifts, products and services. Click here.
Have a question, reach us around the clock, 24-7 on our free Live Support [...]

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Gadget Gift Guide 2008: ScanMyPhotos.com #1 Most “Thoughtful Gift” Idea

Laptop Magazine’s annual Gadget Gift Guide 2008 is now on newstands, on page 28 is a listing of four “Thoughtful Gift Giving” ideas, including a Gift Card to Best Buy’s Geek Squad, iPod tunes, iPhone customized ideas and… ScanMyPhotos.com as the #1 best idea – converting “photo albums to digital DVDs.”

Convert Photo Albums to Digital [...]

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The WORLD’S Most Eco-Friendly Photo Center Opens

As part of our more than 18-year commitment to always be innovative, trend setters and on the cutting-edge of new technologies, 30 Minute Photos Etc. and ScanMyPhotos.com announces the launch of an entirely new photo retail experience.
Visit us today at our Irvine, California retail photo center to expreience the future of photography.

We call [...]

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Esquire Magazine: “An Assortment of Holiday Gifts for Your Lovely Wife”

Getting ready for the holiday season, Esquire Magazine just published its holiday gift guide and ScanMyPhotos.com is featured. We are honored and up to the challenges for helping to make your holidays extra memorable.

ScanMyPhotos.com – Those shoeboxes of pictures, waiting for the day a scanner brings them back to digital life, are no longer a [...]

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Tips on Long-term Photo Preservation

 

Buyer’s Guide: External Storage and Backup

 
 

Digital Focus: Photo Backup Tips and Tricks, March 23, 2004

 
 

IPI Media Storage Quick Reference – Negatives, Prints, Tapes, CDs & DVDs

 
 

McKnight, R. Guidelines for Preserving Your Photographic Heritage

 

Protecting and Preserving Your Photos

SaveMyMemories.org

 
Sphere: Related Content

Posted by Tales from the World of Photo Scanning at 7:52 AM 0 [...]

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Picnik: Free Photo Editing Site Recommended by ScanMyPhotos.com

 
Having scanned millions of pictures, ScanMyPhotos.com provides dozens of other photo imaging specialty services, including custom photo restoration and photo enhancements. However, for ordinary photo fixing, we recommend Picnik.com – the online services lets users crop borders, eliminate red-eye and add a range of special effects like blurring, tinting and heat-mapping to any picture.
Photo Editing [...]

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Leading Photography Blog Sites

Steves-digicams.com Forums
Photo.net News and Updates
DCViews
Photo Business News & Forum
DCResource.com
Tales from the World of Photo Scanning
Digital Photography Now
Hobby – Digital Photo
Dpreview.com
About.com Digital Cameras
Rob Galbraith DPI
Photo News Today
Lets Go Digital
Digital Photography School
Blog on Photoblogs
Photography Blog
Digital Photo News
PopPhoto: Tests & Reviews
Photo District News

Blog for [...]

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A New Way To See and Share Your Scanned Photos

Share It All

You can share any ScanMyPhotos.com PhotoCentral album to a family member or friend with your customized message. PhotoCentral even features an Address Book where you can define groups like My Friends, My Family, Baseball Mothers, etc… – you can share to everyone in any group with a single click. Design your own [...]

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Photo Tip: Free Online Photo Editor

Once your photos, slides and negatives are digitized, here is as fun online photo editing tool to add all types of special effects to your pictures then share it on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites. The Lunapics image manipulation editing tool includes an animated Gif creator and library of cool visual effects, [...]

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New Ways To Share Your Photo Memories

Visit ScanMyPhotos.com and the newly enhanced online photo ordering to instantly design photo greeting cards, 5×7″ folded cards, photo albums, pictures and more.
JUST ADDED
My projects aways saved and backed up
This exciting new feature is the ultimate safety net for you. “My Projects” is a new tab that lets you create any specialty photo [...]

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Recent Tales from the World of Photo Scanning articles

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Slide.com: Another Way to Share your Photos from ScanMyPhotos.com

Slide.com, an online photo-sharing company has been offering tools that allow users to create custom photo slide shows with images and animations for their blogs or social-networking pages. Once you have your images digitally preserved by ScanMyPhotos.com, click here for ideas on how to share those photos.Slide has developed customizable and easily assembled slide shows [...]

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“Strategy: Turn your pix into visuals you can find and use” (via New Storytelling.com)

Thanks to journalist and co-founder of National Geographic´s intranet, Cathy Healy’s for her New Storytelling blog mention of ScanMyPhotos.com on Nov 20th. As you prepare for the holiday season, orders from around the world arrive all day long from several courier services and we mandate that every photo scan order be processed and prepare for [...]

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APS FILM SCANNING – Scanned at 2200 dpi

NEW SPECIAL: Limited Time. Pay just 4.98 per APS roll to CD High resolution scans
(50% discount – regularly $9.95 – Must attach a copy of this notice with your order)
Now is the perfect time to have all your APS [...]

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Recent News on ScanMyPhotos.com

New York Times

When 9 Cents Makes a Memorable Gift
New York Times, United States - Nov 19, 2008
I used a service called ScanMyPhotos.com to scan film prints of photos from my diaper days through my early 40s, when I switched to digital cameras (David …

New technologies can save memories
Cape Cod Times, MA - Nov 2, 2008
If you’re willing to put [...]

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“When 9 Cents Makes a Memorable Gift” (via NY Times)

(repost from, November 19, 2008, 4:18 pm, “When 9 Cents Makes a Memorable Gift” By Rik Fairlie, New York Times, GadgetWise, Getting Smart About Personal Technology). Click here to read article.

What with the downward-facing economy, most consumers will probably try to spend less on holiday gifts this year. One camera maker I spoke with last [...]

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ScanMyPhotos.com CEO Op-ed Commentary in Orange County Register

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Letters: Adapt to new economic climate

Orange County Register, Letters to the editor for Nov. 16, 2008 by, Mitch Goldstone President & CEO ScanMyPhotos.com

As the CEO of a business based in Irvine I’ve taken a keen interest in what has been going on in our state and local governments. This difficult economic climate [...]

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“DemystifyingDigital.com relaunches with product reviews, video tutorials, answers to digital questions” (via PMA)

DemystifyingDigital.com, Woodbury, N.Y., a site known for helping consumers make sense of technology, relaunched its website with expanded features. The new site is designed to help people who are confused by the myriad of digital decisions they have to make every day. It presents product reviews, DIY tutorials on commonly asked questions, a new section [...]

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Data Watch: Greeting cards at the top of consumer demand (via PMA)

In recent times, the photo market has shifted much attention from encouraging consumers to make basic prints to piquing their interest in the other, more profitable products that are available, such as greeting cards. According to PMA Marketing Research, more U.S. households made personalized greeting cards in 2007 than any other custom product, even more [...]

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“So is our interaction with them, our past and future” (via AP)

November 2, 2008

So is our interaction with them, our past and future

By Ted Anthony
Associated Press
In the decades after he returned from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen’s hand.
He carried it everywhere, trained it on everything. Film ebbed into video. He kept recording. When the [...]

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“New Technologies Can Save Memories” (via Cape Cod Times)

New technologies can preserve photos and images from the past

Excerpt from Cape Cod Times, November 02, 2008, By HEATHER WYSOCKI
 
Anyone in possession of photographs of Baby’s first birthday in 1981, the family eeunion of 1968 or a favorite day at the beach circa 1925 knows that family snapshots are worth much more than a thousand [...]

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