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Don’t you just love those smug Mac users talking about how easy it was for them to create a photobook of their latest vacation and how they did it in like, “2 minutes; that’s it!”? I know, you secretly wished you had a Mac so you too could be sporting on the iPhoto but you’re stuck with a PC. Well, don’t worry, ’cause you don’t have to wait an eternity for Microsoft to make a good iPhone clone because Rocketlife did it for them.
Rocketlife is an online photo processor that lets you make calendars, cups, posters, and, yes, photobooks. With just some of your photos, Internet Explorer, a broadband connection, and some creativity, Rocketlife is going to set you up with one sweet photobook…in just minutes. Now you can be like our reviewer, Rebecca, and take your sweet time to nail down that awesome custom look if you want, but it’s not required. Either way, Rocketlife offers a pretty impressive option to iPhoto-wishing PC users to use. Take a look at Rebecca had to say in her review. You may never look at iPhoto again!
There have been a few solutions for this problem, namely dragging your laptop around with you and off load your pictures that way. But who wants to do that? Man, the diaper bag alone is big enough for me to want to ditch it immediately! Other portable hard drive readers, some with screen and some without, have slowly made there way into the alternative space. Of course, you can just buy more flash cards, too.
Digital Foci goes with the hard drive solution. Its new Photo Safe II accepts Compact Flash (including Extreme III, IV, UDMA), MMC, SD/HC Card, miniSD, Memory Stick, MS PRO, MS Duo, MS PRO Duo, and xD-Picture card. Ya, pretty much everything. All the pictures are stored on either an 80GB or 160GB internal hard drive. Once you get home or to the hotel, then you can connect the Photo Safe II to your computer and off comes all those saved pictures of both Shamu and the kids!
Photo Safe II is easy to use and only requires pressing one button labeled “Auto Copy”. At speeds of 5.0/MBsec, a full 1GB card will be copied in about 3.5 minutes. All file formats, including RAW, are supported. A backlit LED screen gives information as to space left, copy progress, and battery life.
Photo Safe II works on both Macs and PCs and retails for $139 for the 80GB version and $189 for the larger 160GB drive.
Known for its “Sophistication Simplified” slogan, Nolobe’s award winning flagship application, Interarchy, a file transfer client with the look-and-feel of a Leopard Finder window, offers Iris at a suggested retail price of $79. Adventurous and curious types or those that just do not like Adobe and Apple imaging products can give Iris a try by downloading a trial from the Iris website.
Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, announced the MOTO Q™ 9c will be available in the company’s online store and in Verizon Wireless business sales channels on May 9. Customers will be able to purchase the newest member of Verizon Wireless’ MOTO Q family at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City, in the coming weeks.
The MOTO Q 9c is the perfect smartphone for business professionals and offers powerful capabilities, including access to more than 14 million points of interest with Verizon Wireless’ popular VZ NavigatorSM service. The phone will also offer the following features and capabilities:
- Windows Mobile® 6 Standard – access to POP3 or IMAP4 e-mail accounts
Documents To Go® – read, edit and create Microsoft® Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® documents - Full QWERTY keyboard with dedicated “hot keys” for shortcuts to popular applications
- 2.4” color screen with innovative adaptive technology to adjust for optimized brightness for indoor and outdoor lighting to maximize battery power
- 1.3 megapixel camera with flash and fixed focus, plus video capture and playback
- 128 MB of on-board memory and optional removable memory future-proofed up to 32 GB (sold separately)
- Voice-activated dialing
- Smart contacts dialing
- Speakerphone
- Stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology supporting both Bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP profiles*
Pricing
MOTO Q 9c will be available for $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement. An additional $100 credit toward the purchase of the handset is available for customers who sign up for qualifying voice and data plans at the time of purchase. Verizon Wireless Nationwide E-mail plans for MOTO Q 9c begin at $79.99 for 450 anytime voice minutes and unlimited e-mail. VZ Navigator is also available for $9.99 for monthly access.
For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com. Business customers should contact their Verizon Wireless Business Sales Representative directly at 1-800-VZW-4BIZ.
* To determine the Bluetooth profiles supported by other Motorola devices, visit www.hellomoto.com/bluetooth. Certain Bluetooth features, including those listed, may not be supported by all compatible Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) announced that the Samsung Glyde™ will be available on May 9, 2008, online at www.verizonwireless.com and in more than 2,400 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores from coast to coast, including those in Circuit City. The Glyde is a powerful and sleek multimedia and messaging phone that boasts a robust feature-set packaged in a compact, touch-screen device with a full QWERTY keyboard.
The Glyde features a 2.8” advanced touch-screen that offers a tactile response and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard that provides customers with an easy way to send text and instant messages. This multimedia device comes equipped with a full lineup of Verizon Wireless’ hottest services including V CAST Music and Video. With V CAST Music, customers have access to more than 3 million songs from well-known and independent artists that can be purchased and downloaded directly over-the-air to the Glyde. V CAST Video gives customers access to content from the best names in news, sports and entertainment.
Other features include a 2.0 megapixel camera with flash, microSD™ card slot, which supports up to 8 GB of external memory, and Bluetooth® stereo headset support.
Additional features of the Glyde include:
- HTML browser with touch navigation
- Get It Now® – download games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services and more
- 2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder with flash and zoom:
- Brightness adjustment
- Self-time: Off, three, five or 10 seconds
- Color effects: Normal, black and white, sketch, antique, negative, green, aqua
Multi-shot Mode: Series, divided - Resolution Adjustment: 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 1024 x 768, 640 x 480, 320 x 240, 176 x 144
- VZ NavigatorSM capability – get visual and audible directions to thousands of destinations, locate businesses and other points of interest, get maps of a location, and share directions with others
- Music Player for .mp3, .wma, and unprotected .aac and .aac + files
- Bluetooth – supports headset, hands-free car kits, serial port, dial-up networking, advanced audio distribution (stereo), phone book access, object push for vCard, basic imaging for sending/printing non-protected images to a compatible device and basic print
- Text, picture and video messaging
- Instant Messaging using AIM®, MSN®, Yahoo!®
- Speakerphone
- Speed dialing
- Dimensions: 4.09” x 1.97” x .7” (standard battery)
- Weight: 4.13 ounces (with standard battery)
- Display: 240 x 440 pixel, 262K TFT, 2.8” active screen area
- Bilingual user interface: English and Spanish
- TTY/TTD-capable
- Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4
- Personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, currency converter, alarm clock, world time and stop watch
- Phone book with up to 500 entries with multiple contacts
- Usage time: Up to 210 minutes with standard battery or up to 250 hours with standard battery for standby time
- 2.5 mm headset jack
The Glyde will be available for $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers can get the most out of their Glyde with Verizon Wireless’ Nationwide Premium calling plan. Starting at $79.99 monthly access, the Nationwide Premium calling plan includes: unlimited messaging, VZ Navigator, Mobile Email, and V CAST VPak plus unlimited megabytes for Mobile Web and Get It Now. For more information on Verizon Wireless products and services, customers can visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or visit www.verizonwireless.com.
The enV2 is the perfect handset for on-the-go texters and music and video fans. In addition to its pocket-sized good looks, the phone is available in two sleek finishes – black and maroon. The following features and capabilities are available on the enV2:
- V CAST Music – access more than three million songs from both well-known and independent artists to download over-the-air and play on the phone
- V CAST Video – download or stream video clips from the best names in news, sports and entertainment
- VZ NavigatorSM – visual and audible directions to a destination, locate businesses and other places in an area, get a map of a location, bookmark favorites and recent searches, and even share locations with others
- Mobile Web-capable – customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather and more
- Media Center-capable – download games, ringtones, wallpapers and more
Instant Messaging using AIM®, WL Messenger®, and Yahoo!® - Mobile Email-capable – access to e-mail services including Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, AOL, AIM, and Verizon.net accounts; or configure POP3 and IMAP accounts
- Full QWERTY keypad with large-sized external keys
- 2.4” internal screen
- 2.0 megapixel camera and camcorder:
The PhotoCopter service is exclusively available to Alltel customers with the Motorola V3m, V3a, V9m and ROKR for $2.99/month, providing customers with unlimited picture transfer to their PC, email address, and web photo albums including Photobucket, Flickr, Blogger, and Snapfish.
“Alltel realizes that our customers are capturing amazing memories on their camera phones, but until now, they have not had an easy way to transfer them to a PC for printing or sharing,” said Craig Kirkland, director of messaging and voice products at Alltel Wireless. “PhotoCopter is a simple to use application that will allow our customers to get the most of their phone’s camera and enjoy their photos in any setting.”
“We’re excited to be working with Ontela and Alltel Wireless to enable photo upload services from Alltel customers to our social networking site, Photobucket,” says John Smelzer, SVP & GM Mobile, Fox Interactive Media. “As camera phones become ever more critical, at the edge of the social network, the PhotoCopter service becomes an irreplaceable agent for the new generation of user created content.”
”It doesn’t even feel like software,” said Dan Shapiro, CEO of Ontela. “You just take the pictures and as if by magic, they appear on your computer in your ‘My Pictures’ folder. This is the end of the ‘photo graveyard,’ where people take pictures and then leave them on the phone until they’re deleted. Instead, we’ve given a new life to these memories by saving them to the places users care about most.”
The PhotoCopter service addresses a widespread problem for camera phone owners: it is often difficult to get pictures off of a camera phone. On a typical phone model, it requires 100 keystrokes to get ten pictures transferred to a PC. While a recent Ontela study reported that 93 percent of camera phone users want to save their pictures to their home computer, only 24 percent of camera phone users can actually do it.
Dgital Foci, Inc. www.digitalfoci.com announced today that its Image Moments 8 and Image Moments 6 digital frames have been awarded Consumers Digest “Best Buys” in the “5.6-inch to 8-inch digital photo frame” category in its Jan/Feb 2008 issue. Both models will be displayed at the Photo Marketing Association Conference (PMA) held next week from January 31 – February 2, 2008 in Las Vegas. Image Moments 8 (IMT-083) and Image Moments 6 (IMT-063) were awarded “Best Buys in Digital Photo Frames” in the “Premium Selection” category, defined as a product that “offers all of the features a ‘top-of-the-line’ buyer would want.” On average, a Consumers Digest Best Buy is awarded to fewer than 3 percent of the competing models in any given product category.
“No other 8-inch frame has such an extensive range of file support, including RAW files from digital SLRs. It packs sophisticated file management, including the ability to create folders, on the frame’s [200MB] of memory. Its remote control makes the unit much easier to use than competitive products. The 5.7-inch IMT-063 is also a Best Buy,” said Greg Scoblete, Consumers Digest, January/February 2008.
“Image Moments 8” Has Limitless Custom Framing Options
Peleman Industries, Inc., manufacturer of the award-winning Unibind PhotoBook Creator and high-quality binding and lamination line of products, announced today that it is the first company to introduce environmentally-friendly Unibind “Green” PhotoBooks made from natural and recycled materials. The Unibind Green PhotoBooks will be debuted at the 2008 Photo Marketing Association (PMA) Convention, held next week, January 31- February 2, 2008 in Las Vegas. The Green PhotoBooks are manufactured with a natural cover comprised of 100 percent cotton-flax, made from natural and recycled materials.
35% of Unibind’s Products are Made with Recycled Materials
The environmentally-friendly PhotoBook is one of several initiatives by Unibind to make its operations as safe as possible for the environment. “Guido Peleman Founder of Peleman Industries Worldwide’s (my father) mission was always to be ‘green,’” said Brigitte Peleman-Vantieghem, CEO of Unibind North America. “An example is our commitment to environmental ethics. Thirty-five percent of our products sold are made with recycled materials, and all of our office building’s roofs in Belgium are being solar-paneled. In addition, we have implemented recycling programs at both our Belgium and U.S. operations.”
“We’re proud to be the first company to offer a ‘green’ photo book. The PhotoBook is one example of Unibind’s determination to make its operations as eco-friendly as possible. 100% natural, the Green PhotoBook offers the same high-quality binding capability of the Unibind professional line of books,” said Rusty Redecker, Vice President of Photo for Unibind North America.
For more information, see www.peleman.com.