Photo sharing services anytime, anywhere

Even in the 21st century, your friends and relatives tend to share memorial photos after a holiday, a party, or a special event. However, sharing photos is not always easy if you don't have powerful enough tools to help share photos anytime, anywhere, and for everyone.

The most traditional way of sharing photos before is via e-mail, but this way of limiting the number of photos that can be shared and creating certain difficulties for recipients (photos cannot be sorted one there organization and science). The two most popular online photo hosting services are Flickr and PicasaWeb, although it allows uploading images online, but not everyone likes Flickr's complex interface or the simple interface of PicasaWeb. What about sharing photos when you're on the road or on vacation? Surely you will not wait until the end of the holiday to upload photos.

Share photos via social networks

Make sure you've heard of the term virtual social network. Although Facebook and MySpace are a great choice to stay in touch with friends and relatives, they're not suitable for photo sharing. Your photos need to be shared on their own social networks.

* Phanfare : A Web service designed specifically for network-based photo sharing. Like many online photo hosting services, Phanfare allows you to upload photos to a Web album, and then share that album with others. And since this service allows sharing albums in groups (like Flickr), others can add photos to the album as you like. When you're on vacation, you can freely add photos to a themed album.

Phanfare's main focus is sharing features. Friends and relatives can view slideshows with background music, can easily download photos to the computer individually or the entire album with high or low resolution as you like. Phanfare also allows querying on-demand printing or photo offerings from third-party service providers like Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, and Snapfish.

Overall, Phanfare is a fairly easy-to-use and intuitive service. Newbies can sign up for a free account with 1GB capacity; If you use an unlimited account, the annual fee will be 55 USD.

Although Flickr has a lower fee (US $ 25 / year - unlimited total), the service does not have a bulk download feature (batch download), and there are no printing or gifting options. Another 30USD, you will be able to use a better service, more user-friendly, and more useful features, and that's Phanfare.

Automatically share photos

* Memeo Share : Flickr, Phanfare, and PicasaWeb both require users to upload photos online, and this can make busy people more difficult. To solve this problem, Memeo Share will offer a different approach, allowing you to set up an automatic photo sharing mechanism.

After installing Memeo software on your computer (PC or Mac), you will have one or more folders marked as 'Shares'. The program will automatically upload all images in this folder to an online account and automatically reduce the image size for faster uploading process. Memeo Share also automatically syncs with computers installed with other software.

However, Memeo does not yet have photo printing or image enhancement features as required. The developer promised to launch this feature quickly. And so, at the present time, Memeo Share is still not the most ideal photo sharing application.

Like Phanfare and Flickr, Memeo also offers a 1GB free registration account, and unlimited accounts will charge a fee of $ 5 / month. Memeo's biggest drawback is that others who want to share photos with you must also install this program correctly.

Share photos while on the road

You can easily share photos while sitting at the computer, and when you are in the wedding party, how about being in a place that is not convenient?

* Phanfare for iPhone: If you take photos with your phone that supports e-mail, you can use this service completely. Phanfare will automatically add photos to your album via a special e-mail address. In addition, the service also features an automatic upload of photos from iPhone to the Web.

* Windows Live for Windows Mobile : Windows Mobile users can export photos directly to Windows Live Spaces service from mobile phones if Windows Live installation machine. Just open any photo, press Menu and select 'Send to Your Space'.

* Eye-Fi Explore: Of course, your phone cannot contain all the pictures you take, when you have to use an alternative solution, which is SD Eye-Fi Explore card (2GB, priced at $ 130). ), with Wi-Fi connection allows sharing photos directly from the camera with other users (common in the US). This service also automatically uploads your photos to a network share.

Currently, Eye-Fi Explore only supports about 20 services, including Facebook, Phanfare, and Shutterfly. In addition, Eye-Fi Explore also allows marking images by tag to help users easily read the parameters related to photos.