The first site is Flickr, at http://www.flickr.com/. Flickr is from Yahoo, and is a free tool for organizing, editing and sharing photos and videos. You create your free account, then start uploading photos from your phone, e-mail, or browser. Flickr has five levels of privacy control so that photos can be viewed only by the people you want to see them. The levels are: Anyone, Only Friends, Only Family, Only You, and Viewing on a Guest Pass. The viewing on a Guess Pass is for someone that does not have a Flickr account, but is invited to see your photos. You can edit your photos with Picnik and label, tag and organize them through the Organizr. Flickr accounts can be connected to Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, or Yahoo Updates. Your Flickr site can be customized to display your photos or embedded with a slide show. Flickr also allows you to search for friends by name or email address and will allow you to import your contacts from your e-mail account.Manilla The second site is Manilla, at http://www.manilla.com/. Manilla is a free account management site that allows you to consolidate your household accounts, financial accounts, subscription and travel accounts all in one location. Your home page has tabs for Accounts, Mail, and Reminders. The Accounts tab shows you a listing of all your bills and bill information, and bills can be paid from this tab. The Mail tab shows e-mails that only relate to your accounts. There is no spam in Manilla. The Reminders tab show bills that are due within the next 14 days. On this tab, you can choose to have yourself sent a reminder e-mail or text message when bills are due. Manilla uses bank level security to protect your private information.
Pixlr The third site is Pixlr, at http://pixlr.com/ . This site is the self-proclaimed "most advanced online image editor in the world". There is no membership required - just upload a photo from your computer, from an URL or from a library and start editing. You can even start with a blank image and create your own graphic. There is Pixlr Editor for detailed editing and Pixlr Express for quick editing. Pixlr Grabber comes as a download for Chrome and Firefox that allows you to grab browser content for editing, sharing, and saving directly in the browser. Pixlr imm.io is available for photo sharing. Pixlr makes the photo available to your friends and family, but removes the photo if it is not viewed in 30 days.
Blue Mountain E-Cards Blue Mountain E-card is found at http://www.bluemountain.com/ and is a free e-card design and sending service. It has cards tailored for all ages and genders and for all occasions that can be personalized and sent to your friends and family. An account is required, but after that simple step you are eligible to make and send as many cards as you want. It is a great way to remember all those who are special to you without spending a fortune.
Dropbox Dropbox (found at https://www.dropbox.com/) is a wonderful tool that allows you to have access to any file placed in a Dropbox folder on your personal computers and phones, and access to the file from any computer via Dropbox.com. Dropbox automatically updates the Dropbox file in all venues after changes have been made to the file. Files and photos can be shared with friends, family and co-workers by sending specific links to files to your target viewer. Also, you can make files or photos available to everyone by copying them to your Public folder.
Dropbox is very secure. Files are encrypted with AES-256 before storage and data is transported using SSL. Dropbox provides an automatic backup source for your files with 2G of free storage. (More can be purchased with a monthly charge.) Download the Dropbox installer on all your computing devices, upload files to Dropbox.com or drag and drop them into your Dropbox folder on your computer and you can have access to your files anytime/anywhere.
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