Photos

I've been playing with a number of different sites recently to store my digital photos and order prints. One of the nicest for sharing photos is flickr.com. The UI is very slick and it is very flexible in the way that you can organize photos. Unfortunately, you cannot (yet) order prints from a UK supplier from the site.

Most of the UK print shops (Jessops, SupaSnaps etc.) have some online ordering and photo-sharing facilities, however they often have limits on the amount of time that photos will be kept for and/or storage limits. Also, the bulk upload facilities often rely on ActiveX controls which is a pain if you use Firefox as your browser or a non-Windows OS such as Linux.

I have finally settled on photobox.co.uk. The browser based bulk upload tool is a java applet so it works on linux and they also allow you to upload files by FTP. There is an initial storage limit of 200 Mb but this increases by 50Mb for each order placed.

Finally resurrecting this blog

As I am on holiday this week I have finally got around to resurrecting my blog. I originally opened it as somewhere to store links to sites I'd found on the internet but
del.icio.us is a much better alternative.