Hello world!

As you might have inferred, this is a blog about SmugMug, their very cool referral system and my coupon code. Find out more about this, the premium photo-sharing site and then sign up for their service using my coupon code, thus saving $5,00 off your first year subscription and earning me a few bucks that will go toward my renewal fee. Because in the words of a famous, yet somewhat-aged Jedi knight: “Renew you will want to”.  

SmugMug? – you may be asking. Yup! We’re talking about the world’s finest on-line photo storage and sharing website! If you haven’t checked their site out yet I advise you to do it now. Head on over here and without a credit card enjoy all the amazing things these fellows have to offer regarding all of your photography needs (not only do they keep your photos for you, they’ve also got this great forum, Dgrin, where you’ll be able to stay up-to-date on gear, shooting tips and so forth).

Did I mention you can do this without a credit card? Yes, I think I did. In any case, you get SmugMug free of charge for 14 wonderful days, having access to every single feature in each of their 3 account levels (Standard, Power, Pro). Once you’re hooked, you can purchase a year of whichever service you think suits you best and get $5 off by following this link.

A new chapter

Beginning with this post I will be yet again changing the use I’d been giving to this site.
From now on it will be more about my personal experience on and off line and I might even throw in a post in Spanish every now and then. To get things started let me share a photo recently taken with my BlackBerry. Hope you’ll like it. Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Movistar

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Dropico Lets You Drag And Drop Pictures Across Social Networks

via techcrunch.com

Neat way of moving your pics from social network to social network (from Flickr to Facebook, for instance). When I tried it, though, my photos in Flickr took forever to load and then after dragging them to my Facebook albums, they just wouldn’t show up there anywhere. The idea is good but it seems like it needs to be refined a bit.

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Picasa Web Albums Adds Collaboration

Picasa Web Albums—the internet-facing component of the popular desktop photo management application—has added a new feature that lets you collaborate on albums with your friends.

Collaborating on an album is easy:

To make an album collaborative, sign in to Picasa Web Albums and add contributors. Just click the ‘Share’ button, add contributors, and leave the ‘Let people I share with contribute photos’ checkbox selected

You can also manage access for contributors you’ve added to the ‘Shared with’ list by toggling the ‘plus’ icon next to their name — when the plus icon is green they can add photos.

To contribute once you’ve been invited to collaborate on an album, just log into Picasa Web Albums with your Google account and visit the album you’ve been invited to join. You’ll see an Add photos button you can hit to upload your own pics to the album.

It seems like a nice little feature, and definitely something we’d like to see from more photo sharing apps (we’re looking at you, Flickr).

via lifehacker.com

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Found on SmugMug

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Now, this is what I call macro photography!

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iPhone to Become #1 Camera on Flickr

For the longest time, the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi has been the most widely used camera on Flickr. With a 10.1 MP Lens, an image sensor vibration cleaning system, 9-point auto focus, and a mid-range price point, it’s easy to see why the Canon camera has been so popular with the photography enthusiasts on Yahoo’s photo-sharing website.

But while Canon has dominated, there’s another camera that’s been zipping up the Flickr charts. Actually, camera phone would be more precise, because we’re talking about the iPhone.

That smartphone, with its weak 2 MP camera and its lack of zoom, is now set to overtake Canon Rebel XTi as the #1 camera on Flickr (). This is according to Flickr’s Camera Finder graphs. Actually, as the LA Times has already caught, the iPhone has already passed the Rebel XTi on a few occasions as the two duke it out for the top spot.

So what does this development mean? First, it’s a reflection of the intense popularity of mobile smartphones and specifically the rise of the iPhone. You always have a camera in your pocket (and with the 3GS, a camcorder too). Just as important is that it’s easy to upload your pictures directly from your mobile phone to your Flickr account. That’s something most digital cameras can’t do, since they aren’t connected to 3G or Wifi connections.

via mashable.com

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Facebook Gets TwitPic-Like Photo and Video Upload Features

If you have iPhone or BlackBerry, you’re used to being able to get photos and videos from your phone to Facebook fairly easily through the applications the social network has launched for each mobile platform that integrate nicely with your device’s camera.

But now, Facebook is launching a more universal way for you to get your multimedia onto the site: email. Much like TwitPic () and other mobile uploading applications for Twitter (), the new Facebook mobile feature assigns you a personal email address (you can find yours here) that you can email your photos to. Doing so automatically posts them to your account, using your subject line as the caption.

via mashable.com

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Photo Tagger: Tag Your Facebook Friends in Bulk

Face.com is the facial recognition service behind Photo Finder, their private alpha photo finding app for Facebook. After scanning over 1 billion photos and identifying 400 million faces, they’re ready to release a second tool into the wild.

Photo Tagger, now live, is another private alpha Facebook app using facial recognition, but this one was made with the avid photo uploader and tagger in mind. You can use the tool to scan Facebook photo albums for faces and tag your friends in bulk.

With the Photo Tagger application you can select from photo albums that belong to you or your friends, and use the app to scan the faces in each album. Once the scanning process is complete, Photo Tagger will return photos grouped by faces, some of which might already be identified by existing tags. You can then add a tag to a photo or a group of photos with the same face.

via mashable.com

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Picurio: Photo Sharing for Groups

Picurio, a Y Combinator startup from its Winter ‘09 session that makes photo sharing between large groups incredibly easy, has taken the beta label off. While there are an innumerable amount of photo sharing sites and applications out there, Picurio is focused on making photo sharing simple and user-friendly between groups of people.

Picurio’s site has a similar user interface to Apple’s iPhoto, except Picurio is on the web and cloud-based. The idea behind Picurio is that you upload photos to a “room” (which has around 2 GB of storage) where you can then create subfolders of different groups of photos and then invite as many people as you want to see the photos. In order to allow others to see the site, you send them a link, (that can be password-protected for privacy) and then they can upload photos of their own to the “room.” As a user, you can share some collections of photos with certain friends and share other rooms with a different set of friends.

via techcrunch.com

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5 Reasons You Can Ditch Your DSLR for an iPhone | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

If you want high-quality photos, a responsive and full-featured DSLR is the only way to go. But sometimes you don’t want to carry that bulky box around with you. With a couple of accessories, and a few megabytes of applications, you can turn the iPhone in your pocket into a rather capable replacement.

via wired.com

I only wonder if there are any reasons why I should do away with my Point-&-Shoot in favor of Apple’s little toy-phone…

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SmugBlog: Release Notes – Be Social and a New Uploader

Be Social and a New Uploader- July 1st, 2009

We hope this release was worth the wait! We’re thrilled to announce lots of the social features requested by our customers.

If you have the “Easy Sharing” option enabled in your gallery settings, you’ll see the following new options in your Share menu when you’re logged in:

1. Social Bookmarking – quickly share galleries with lots of popular networks such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
2. Be Social – share your photos with friends on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, and Tumblr.
3. Show Off (for logged-in gallery owner only) – create a custom flash slideshow or animated image badge. Get the code with a single click and flaunt it on your blog, forum, or website.

via blogs.smugmug.com

This is why I love SmugMug soooooo much!

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