Tag: photos
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Historic Photos and Facebook
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the reasons for which I keep using Facebook has to do with peoples’ sharing of old photos, paintings, sketches and more. I love to see photos of Nyon, Morges, Neuchatel Lausanne and other places through time. Recently I saw a photo of La Dole with a group of children skiing…
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Migrating Photos from Facebook to Google Photos
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere has been a shift within cloud services such as Google, Facebook and others. That shift is to make migrating photos from one service quick and easy. The old fashioned method would be to download media from service A before re-uploading it to service B. This requires lots of space on hard drives and…
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Very Quick Thoughts on Mylio
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen looking at hard disk options I noticed that with the Seagate One Touch Hub they offer six months with Mylio so I decided to try the app, without buying that app. My first thought is that it claims to replace Google Photos and iCloud and yet the cost is similar per…
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Organising Terabytes Fast
Reading Time: 4 minutesImagine for a second that you have six hard drives filled with Data. Some are four terabytes. Others are one terabyte each, and you’ve already sorted personal videos and photos from other media files. Each drive is moved to its own folder Two Terabyte Seagate has gone from being a drive to a…
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Time Machine Backups
Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday while freeing space on a number of drives I found that one failed to mount so I had to use the recovery tools in disk utility to get it to mount. The process took a few minutes. Once this was done I decided to move all data from that drive to…
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Facebook and Photo Archives
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have spent more time on Facebook and I have joined a few photo groups. One of them is for the Canton De Vaud, where people are sharing photos they have taken of the region. These photographs are well framed, well lit, and pleasant to look at. It feels like a…