The 1000 Photos of Dr. M

Madamina — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:57:59 -0800

Need a replacement, Mac-and-amateur-friendly service for Flickr Pro to host my 1000 photos. I have a Flickr Pro account with about 1000 images arranged very nicely in nesting sets/collections. Unfortunately, AT&T has decided to end the practice of giving customers a Flickr Pro account, so it'll end in February.

What's a good replacement service that will let me keep my organization, more or less? Will Picasa work? Should I just suck it up and pay for a hosting service (I'm a writer, so having a site and a place to host clips would probably be useful to some degree)? If so, what?

How should I move it all? UGH.

For reference, I'm a complete amateur who likes taking pics of travel and stuff. I don't know HTML aside from inserting links into blogs and the like. I use Macs almost exclusively at home and work (I have a MacBook Pro).

Thanks!

Portable Hard Drive Recs

spicynuts — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:08:10 -0800

Need recommendations for portable hard drives. The reviews on newegg and amazon are too rah rah or doomsday. I would like to get a 250GB portable hard drive to dump my RAW and PSD files and my music files into so as to free up space on my main computer hard drive. I've been looking at the LaCie portables. Most of the reviews on newegg and amazon are either 'this is fantastic' or 'this thing is crap it died in two days'. I have no way to judge criteria other than what I read in those reviews. Does anyone have any experience with the LaCie hard drives or other brands that may be more reliable/better deals? I need something that is easy to set up and will be reliable over the long term. It is just a dumping ground - back up.

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