Best Photo Sharing Sites for Every Day Photography

Every phone and camera we have today will always have photos going back years, without any categorizations, you will never enjoy them watching. Moreover, you also have space issues; your old photos take too much space, and you never enjoy those past photos as much as you should do.Now we have number of sites that are offering free space....

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Best Photo Sharing Sites for Every Day Photography

Every phone and camera we have today will always have photos going back years, without any categorizations, you will never enjoy them watching. Moreover, you also have space issues; your old photos take too much space, and you never enjoy those past photos as much as you should do.

Now we have number of sites that are offering free space to save and show off photos, they contain features like printing and sharing it with friends and family. Another feature that is not available on all sites is selling your photos, yes you can sell you photos and earn handsome money out of it.

So, what all things you should consider before choosing these photo sharing / hosting services. In my opinion, basic things that are essential are the space, quality, ease of usage, ease of access, shareability and printability.

Below you will find The Best Photo Sharing Sites that has abilities and features that will help you determine the right service for your precious photos.

Facebook

Facebook has been there for many years now, and it give you plenty of options to share your photos. You can make them unrestricted or private, and you have unlimited space. Useful for photo clicking junkies.

DotPhoto

DotPhoto one of the coolest photo sharing services that makes it easy for you to share the pictures in fun and hassle-free manner. DotPhoto lets you build your own personal photo website, sell your pictures to other members, order custom uploads, share mobile phone pictures with Pictavision and much more.

Picasa

Picasa is free photo editing software offered by Google that makes your pictures look amazing. You can share your best photos with friends and family in simple and fun way.

Fotolog

Fotolog is the world’s leading photo-blogging social networking site with a global cultural phenomenon. It has more than 22 million members in over 200 countries for it offers simple and fun way to express through online photo diaries or photo blogs.

Fotki

Fotki is a thriving online community that lets the photographer in you share your work online. The website offers an easy way to share your photos along with the printing service for those interested. With the easy-to-use interface, fully automated Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds the users can sync the pics to their blog, and communities. It gives you the option to upload the pictures individually or in group. Also, you can recover the picture from another site, use a file (sharing software) transfer protocol client, email your picture or send it directly from your mobile phone.

Photobucket

Photobucket is the website that’s popularly known for uploading, sharing, linking photos, graphics and videos. You can sign up for free and host all your photos and share the same through email, mobile phone and IM. Also, you can edit your uploaded photos with feature-rich photo editor. You are not boud to upload pictures from your lappys or PCs, the Photobucket comes flexible uploading features and advanced mobile options.

flickr

‘Flickr’ is one name that each one of us is well introduced to and definitely deserves a mention. It’s the well known online photo sharing site that is endowed with impressive features and simple easy to use design. Flickr offers you with various ways to upload the photographs. It enables you to showcase, share and store your photos in flexible and user-friendly way. Besides this, it has the photo editing tools to edit the pictures in the fuss-free manner.

Webshots

Webshots is a photo sharing website that offers free and premium membership. It is one of the largest photo libraries of the world. It lets you share your photographs with friends and family in a number of ways using Webshots. Also, you can find out which one is best for you in our comparison chart provided.

Smugmug

Smugmug is an online photo sharing service that lets you upload and share your photos making use of four varying options. You can chose from batch uploading for Internet Explorer on Macintosh and windows, Windows Drag & Drop, batch uploading for other systems including Netscape, Linux etc , batch uploading for OS 9 & OS X. the site also supports videos in MPEG–1 format. Also, Smugmug is capable of supporting video clip of maximum size 8MB.

ImageShack

ImageShack is an online photo sharing website that gives you the choice of the way images will be displayed. If you don’t want gallery to be displayed and want a host to link your images to a forum or bulletin board quickly that too for free, then Imageshack is the right place to upload and share your pictures.

Tinypic

Tinypic is a photo sharing website that enables you to upload the pictures and videos and share the same with people. You can resize and edit your images thereafter share the same in Orkut, Myspace, Ebay and message boards or send them via email.

Go2Album

Go2Album is the website that with the Ultraslideshow Flash Gallery Maker makes it easy for the users to upload the pictures and the powerful flash slideshow maker and creator helps a great deal in enhancing the photos. The software lets users build their own flash slideshow and flash movie in juts few minutes.  It’s a web album hosting service with cool features like Photo Flash Maker and Flash Gallery Maker to let you share upload and pictures easily.

Jalbum

Jalbum is one free and easy to use online photo sharing website with amazing range of customization. Also, you can publish the photographs to any site. Uploading an album to Jalbum doesn’t cost you anything.

Dropshot

Dropshot is one of the most important resources for sharing memories online. The website is currently hosting over millions of photos and videos online. With Dropshot, sharing memories is made simple!

Last but not the least, you have another option to share your best photos online, that is the getting a web space by yourself and setting up a website. Its not that hard and you can learn to code.

I have tried to include all the best photo sharing websites in my list. However, if you feel I have missed any, you can share with us. So, guys keep your spirits high, take the best shots and share it with the world by signing on the above websites you feel will do the real justice with your shots!

Eleven things you didn't know about Apple

Eleven things you didn't know about Apple

From the design team's obsession with unboxing to satanic pricing and the world's most unlikely mullet, there is more to Apple than meets the eye The company behind the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad is famously secretive, but there a few little known facts about the California-based company.

1 Steve Jobs was adopted and half Syrian

Apple’s legendary co-founder and chief executive died in October 2011, but while heading up the company Steve Jobs revealed that he was actually adopted and half Syrian. His biological parents, Joanne Schieble and Syrian immigrant Abdulfattah Jandali met as 23-year-old students at the University of Wisconsin.

Jobs was put up for adoption in 1955, through pressure from Schieble’s parents. Schieble and Jandali later married and had a daughter, Jobs’ biological sister.

2 Apple’s first computer was satanically priced

Apple’s first computer, the Apple I, was priced at $666.66. Steve Wozniak apparently priced it without realising that the triple-six configuration had Satanic connotations, instead pricing it at one-third over the wholesale price of $500, and preferring one repeating digit over 667 because it was "easier to type".

3 Apple ships everything by air, not sea

Apple is Cathay Pacific’s biggest freight customer, as it prefers to move most of its stock by air instead of boat. The benefit is being able to move stock quickly rather than cheaply, with stock moved from China to the US in 15 hours instead of 30 days. It means that less money is tied up in stock (normally on credit) before it can be sold on.

It also means that phones, tablets and computers all worth in excess of £500 each are not sitting in a container at sea which might sink or get hijacked. 

4 A Macintosh is an apple variety

The Apple Macintosh is so called because the macintosh was Jef Raskin’s favourite variety of Apple.

At the time it was just a codename, which Steve Jobs reportedly tried to change to “bicycle” while Raskin was out of the office, but Macintosh stuck until the end of product development and made it onto the box.

5 Apple’s hero shots aren’t computer generated

The big, glossy super-high-resolution photos of Apple’s latest products in adverts and on its site are not computer generated. Instead, they are a painstaking blend of hundreds of high resolution, super-close up photos all with narrow depths of field.

The individual images are stitched together, in a similar way to high dynamic rangephotography which blends photos with different exposures, into one massive, ultra-high-resolution image entirely in focus.

6 Steve Wozniak is still an Apple employee

Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak set up the company in 1976 with Steve Jobs in his garage. He no longer actively works for Apple, but is still officially an Apple employee and receives a stipend estimated to be worth $120,000 a year.

7 Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow

Steve Jobs’ last words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow" while looking over the shoulders of his family, according to his sister Mona Simpson, who allowed the eulogy she gave at Jobs‘ memorial service to be published in the New York Times.

8 Apple had three founders

Apple was founded in 1976 by three people, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

Ronald drew the first Apple logo, wrote the original partnership agreement and the Apple I computer manual, but sold his 10% stake two weeks in for just $800 because of concerns over debt.

That same stake would have been worth over $35bn today.

9 Thank Ive for the white iPod

Steve Jobs was opposed to the idea of white products initially, but was convinced to use white as Apple’s primary colour for its products by Apple’s designer Sir Jony Ive.

In Ive’s recent biography, former Apple designer Doug Satzger has said that Jobs was only won over by white when shown a different shade called “moon grey”.

Ive’s love for white originated long before he joined Apple, right back to the work he produced while still a design student at Newcastle.

10 Packaging obsession

Apple pays as much attention to its packaging as it does to its products. So much so, that it has a dedicated secret packaging room within its headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Packaging designers spend countless hours opening boxes within this special room, attempting to elicit the correct emotional response in customers opening new products for the first time. In his book, Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky describes the level of obsession and attention to detail Apple commits to packaging:

“One after another, the designer created and tested an endless series of arrows, colours, and tapes for a tiny tab designed to show the consumer where to pull back the invisible, full-bleed sticker adhered to the top of the clear iPod box. Getting it just right was this particular designer's obsession.”

11 Balls

In his recent unauthorised biography of Jony Ive, author Leander Kahney included a photo of an iMac G4 inside its box. The stem connecting the screen to the domed base is encased in polystyrene, with the two ball-shaped speakers carefully and very deliberately placed either side of the shaft. The idea of arranging them to look like male genitals was apparently the idea of the design team.

For good measure, the book also features a high school photo of Ive, arguably the world's most famous designer and tastemaker, with a very impressive mullet.

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iOS 9 Features: What can we expect to see? !!!!

iOS 9 Features: What can we expect to see? !!!! Apple's iOS 9 is here. The update to last year's iOS 8 brings with it a whole load of features including a dedicated News app and a smarter Siri. Here's everything you need to know so far.As expected, Apple’s Tim Cook took to the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to unveil the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS 9. Here's the lowdown on the key new iOS 9 features....

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iOS 9 Features: What can we expect to see?

iOS 9 Features: What can we expect to see? 

Apple's iOS 9 is here. The update to last year's iOS 8 brings with it a whole load of features including a dedicated News app and a smarter Siri. Here's everything you need to know so far.

As expected, Apple’s Tim Cook took to the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to unveil the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS 9. Here's the lowdown on the key new iOS 9 features
Claiming it will 'elevate the foundations of the platform', Apple sees iOS 9 as the update to address issues like improving iPhone battery life while continuing to protect users data.
Launching in public beta in July and in full in the Autumn, there's plenty of iOS features for iPad and iPhone users to look forward.
So what's new? Well, there's plenty. These are the iOS 9 features to look forward to the most.

New improved Siri

Apple says there has been 1 billion requests per week since it launched the digital assistant and now it's 40% faster and more accurate than last year's version. With a sleek new UI, Siri will let you search for photos from specific places and times. You'll also be able to create reminders from emails much easier too. But there's more...

A more proactive assistant

Think Apple giving Siri a Google Now makeover and potentially making it better than its rival. Through iOS 9, Siri will know when you're going out for a run in the morning and launch the music app when you plug in the headphones. It can automatically open up an audio book when you're in the car because it'll learn that's when you regularly do it and can even start giving out directions.
One of the most impressive features is the ability to automatically put meetings or events into your calendar sent through emails and messages.
Inside Spotlight, you'll now find the new Siri suggestions which is basically people you may want to contact or apps you may want to use based on the contextual information generated from your Siri request.

 

Who's calling?

We've all been there. Someone calls you, there's no caller ID and you don't want to pick it up in case it's the dreaded automated PPI recorded message. Now Apple will do some digging for you, searching through emails and messages to try and identify the user. It's one of the smallest iOS 9 features, but could be one of the most useful.

Apple Pay

Apple's mobile payment service is not new but it's evolving into a platform where you really can forget your wallet at home and not have to worry about trying to pay for a round of beers or a new shirt. In iOS 9, you'll now be able to add store cards and rewards cards as well so you don't miss out on those discounts and club card points.

 

Improved search

In iOS 8, finding things on your iPhone and iPad became a lot easier and was a more unified approach. Now Apple is taking things up a notch in iOS 9. You can search for sports scores, video in VEVO and content in the iTunes store. Like Google, you can directly play content from search results. Apple is also opening up the Search API, which means you can now find content from third party apps installed on your iPhone or iPad.

Privacy

After Tim Cook's privacy blast last week, Apple reiterated its commitment to not let your data fall into the wrong hands. It still promises not to link your information to other Apple services, share with third parties and says that 'You're in control'. iOS 9 users will be able to stay anonymous and only time will tell if Apple will be able to keep its promise.

 

Passbook is no more

Well, it's being renamed. Passbook will now be called Wallet and will become the place for all of you credit, debit and loyalty cards. You'll still be able to store boarding passes as well as concert and sports tickets just as you can with the current Passbook app currently.

New Notes app

Apparently there's a lot of people that use the Note app on the iPhone and it's going to be able to do more than simply store some random thoughts. A new toolbar will let you create headings for example, while a new checklists mode will let you tick off items in a shopping list as you thrown them into the shopping trolley. Other new additions include adding images to notes from the camera and simply drawing an item in notes.
To sift through you library of memos, you can now view by thumbnail, dates and even browse through attachments stored on your device.

Apple Maps goes on the tube

Apple's answer to Google Maps has had a rough ride since it first launched, but the latest changes could persuade some to actually start using it. A new Transit mode now provides mapping for train stations giving you multi-routing and step by step directions. Apple has even gone to the effort of suveying entrance and exits and stations to give you the exact distance from your current location to help you decide whether it's actually worth running for the last train.

London and New York will be among the first major cities to benefit from the new Transit mode when it launches with iOS 9 later this year.

Other new Apple Maps features to highlight include finding locations nearby and will even notify you of which establishments support Apple Pay.

News

For the first time in a while, Apple has launched a brand new native application and it's all about, well, news. The Flipboard-esque application lets you choose the content topics, whether it's travel, science or sport. Then it'll pull content into one unified magazine offering interactive static content. You can bookmark articles to read content later and a new photo mosaics mode puts high resolution images into an easy to view gallery.

Apple has worked with the New York Times, EPSN, Vogue, GQ and Men's Health as the first publications to offer unique content for the new News app.

Low Power mode

We called for a battery saving mode and Apple kind of delivered. While Tim Cook was sketchy on the exact details, iOS 9 promises a new setting that can add up to three hours of battery to your iPhone from a single charge. We wish Apple spent a bit more time talking about this, as no doubt it's an issue that all iPhone users hope can get better.

For the iPad only

The iPad arguably got the most interesting updates in iOS 9, so here's the most interesting ones.

QuickType keyboard gets a virtual makeover

A staple for iPad users, the QuickType keyboard will be able to do a whole lot more and adds a pretty important feature. First, the suggestion bar now has shortcuts to copy and paste, add formatting and add attachments. More impressively, you can now use a two-finger gesture across the keyboard to select content in an article or document and hopefully make editing content on an iPad much easier.

Multitasking

This is a big one and could be the clearest indication yet that Apple has an eye on making a bigger tablet currently being dubbed as the iPad Pro. Like Microsoft and Samsung, you'll now be able to run two apps side-by-side on the iPad.

To start with, there's a new task switcher, which can be accessed by double-tapping on the home screen. Once you've chosen an app, the new SlideOver feature (iPad Air and above or iPad Mini 2 and above) will let you add in another app to the iPad screen. Now you can read your emails and browse the web at the same time. A series of gestures will help you move through content, windows can be resized and can interact with both apps running on the screen.

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A new SplitView mode, which will only be available on the iPad Air 2, will let users run two apps at exactly the same time. So for example, if you have an email open with map locations, you can have the map app open as well and it will move to those points in the map in real time.

If you love watching video, you can now also open up a video window and let it run while you're still in another app. You'll be able to resize the video window, move it to one side, or hide it altogether.

 

iOS installs are getting smaller

Getting the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system onto your iPhone and iPad should be quicker starting with iOS 9. Now it'll require freeing up just over 1GB (1.3GB to be precise) to install it. That's down from the whopping 3-4GB of space you needed to free up for iOS 8. That's good news if you're a hoarder of apps, photos, games and music.

Everything else: The bits you might have missed

If you're an avid iCloud Drive user you'll appreciate this one. Apple has finally decided to put in a dedicated app for the service into iOS 9, though it will be off by default. A simple trip into settings will turn it on though. You'll then be able to search through all your cloud saved files without searching out a third-party version.

Both Find My Phone and Find My Friends are now stock apps that can't be deleted, rather than optional apps downloadable from the App Store. We're happy to see Find My Phone there, the other one less so.

To add an extra hit of security to your device, iOS 9 now requires a six-digit pin instead of four. If you don't want that added protection, or are a little forgetful, you can switch back to four.

Apple Zone: Apple Music review

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Apple Music review You can count on one finger the number of companies in the world that could launch a new music streaming service and expect to become a major player overnight.That company is Apple and today it duly obliged by launching Apple Music - the long-awaited music app that integrates subscription-based streaming capabilities with the playback of existing songs in your iTunes library. So you no longer need to buy an album on iTunes in order to listen to it on your iPhone inside stock apps, you can simply pay $9.99/£9.99 per month and stream as much music as you like directly into your head, preferably via the ears. And you can do it from inside the Music app on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, or with iTunes on your PC or Mac.........

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