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Monday

Free The Trapped Photos From Your Camera!

Are you like everyone else? You probably have gone all digital in terms of taking photos with a recently purchased digital camera. I'm sure you love it.

But what about that old 35mm camera sitting in the drawer or that Kodak Advantix APS format camera? Does it still have a roll of film trapped in there since the last time you used it to take some photos? Are you letting them just sit there and rot inside that black box? How cruel of you! Those photos have been waiting to be seen! All that technicolor-richness behind bars!


I bet you probably don't even have a clue what's on the roll of film -- there ain't no preview screen built into the back of those cameras! :-(

What to do? I'm sure you don't want to take it to the drug store for film developing just to find some random candid shots that aren't worth the money, right?

Here's a printable coupon for a completely free film developing at Walgreens and a set of 4x6 photo prints from that roll stuck in that now antique camera of yours.



And if you want to actually add those photos to your collection of photos on your computer, just use the 2nd coupon to get all those snapshots digitized on burned onto a CD for just $0.99.




[Click on the thumbnail images above to get the full-size printable coupons]

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Tuesday

Have Photos, Will Not Travel - But Kodak Will Mail Them For You!

The world is getting smaller and smaller as we jetset and travel around the world. After visiting with friends or relatives from across the globe, it's so easy to stay in touch these days via phone or email.

Now, it's just as easy to send them the classic Kodak Moment snapshots you took during your last visit together, no matter what country internationally they live in outside the USA.


20% & 20 Prints 336x280

In fact, it's so easy that you probably should think about sending a photo mug or some of the other unique photo gifts available online for their next birthday or anniversary or holiday.

Kodak's Easyshare Gallery (formerly Ofoto) now supports shipping destinations to outside the US. The list is huge, and most probably includes the country of your friends & family.

So WOW them the next occastion and consider sending them the perfect photo postcard, photos or a photo gift!


Kodak EasyshareGallery currently can ship your photo gifts to any of the following countries:


United States
American Samoa
Canada
Federated States of Micronesia
Guam
Marshall Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Bermuda
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei Dar.
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Channel Islands, UK
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
England
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guyana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Germany
Gibraltar
Great Britain
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Ireland
Isle of Man, UK
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Macau
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Madeira Islands
Malaysia
Malawi
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Martinique
Mauritius
Mauritania
Mexico
Moldavia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar, Burma
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Northern Ireland
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Isl.
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Reunion
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saipan
Samoa
Sao Tome
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Scotland, UK
Senegal
Singapore
Slovak Rep.
Slovenia
Solomon Isl.
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St Vincent
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tahiti
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Virgin Islands (UK)
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Wales
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe

VALUPOINT DISCOUNT: For a limited time use COUPON CODE: SHIP4SUMMER to get Free Shipping on your photobooks are more!

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Basically 1 Free Roll of Film Developed for Free

Remember the days of the 35mm camera? You had a roll of 24 exp 200ASA film that you dropped off at the Photomat or sent it way to York Photo to get developed.


Well, Kodak is basically giving away a free roll of film developing with their promotion for 20 Free Prints. Sure it's 4 shy of the 24 exposure roll, but usually you can throw away 4 bad shots in any given roll anyway, right?




So don't look a gift horse in the mouth and take advantage of this offer.


I guarantee that you have AT LEAST 20 photos sitting IN you digital camera or on your hard drive that you really have been procrastinating to get printed.


Do it now and make someone smile: 20 Free Kodak Prints Offer

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Wednesday

Video Slideshows & Home Movies for Dummies

One of the best things I've done with all the digital photos and video clips that I've taken with my Sony digital camera is to make video slide shows using Microsoft PhotoStory. It's a very easy program that allows you to import photos, re-arrange the order, set-up transitions between each photo, add titles, import mp3 music files for a sound track and set-up zoom/pan movement within each photo during the video. It also allows me to burn the finished product to a DVD to share with others after buying an additional $20 plug-in DVD burning plug-in specifically for that program.

I consistently get ooohs and ahhhhs whenever we show them to friends or family. Everyone wants to know how to do it themselves. The problem is that everyone is a little bit lazy, and there is a learning curve when it comes to all things technical.


Here's one attempt to solve that. Digital video slide show for Dummies: OneTrueMedia. The site allows you to upload photos from your PC, and then it auto-creates a video slide show for you with some basic razzle dazzle elements. If you are daring enough the service gives you more control to customize each part just like with the "manual" process I described above.
You can also order DVD's from them or photobooks too.

One really neat thing about OneTrueMedia is that you can also share any of the creations online through YouTube, GoogleVideo, etc and here's an exclusive feature that may be worth it for you to try them out: Anyone with a Tivo (like grandparents) worldwide can automatically find your latest video slide show on their "NOW PLAYING" menu and just watch your video just like any other of their recorded TV shows on the Tivo.

This is one service that is trying to break that inertia & "dummies" barrier for the millions of people that have digital photos and video clips "held hostage" in their cameras and hard drives.

If you've try it out, why not share your experience via the comments section?

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Send a Free Valentine's Photo Greeting Card

Free Card Offer Shutterfly.com has really impressed me recently. They quality of their product and service is pretty much above par relative to the rest of the photo sites out there. Even from when you open the packaging, you'll really feel like this is not some cut-rate cheapo service. High-quality packaging sets the tone from the start. The prints DO come out a little more vibrant than some of the other photo finishing services -- try your own comparison and order the same photo print from different places and do a blind test at home. I think you'll find Shutterfly will top the list.

And just in time for Valentine's Day, here's a chance to test out their photo card product. You'll be pleasantly satisfied with the THICK paper used for their greeting cards with glossy finish. VERY professional. Very addicting in my opinion. The challenge is to get over the inertia and create more photo gift items throughout the year.

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So this is a great incentive to start -- a free custom photo greeting card. Take ANY photo you have on your computer RIGHT NOW, and upload it and create a simple Valentine's Day card for your loved one. It will be a treat when it's received!
Use promo code by Feb 27th: 19AF-CDS1




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CLICK.....and PRINT IT!

You got that shiny new digital camera for Christmas and already started to snap hundreds of photos...but they are either still stuck on your memory card or on your hard drive. No one is ever going to see the paparazzi in you if you never print them out!

I've been using both HP and Lexmark photo printers recently and still like the menuing of the HP's Photosmart series of portable photo printers
portable photo printers. They are easy to use and take almost any photo memory card you have - SD, Memorystick, CompactFlash, etc.

Photosmart Compact GoGo Photo Printer


Here's your chance to pick one up (or even as a spare!) for only $22! How? The Photosmart 335 Compact GoGo Photo Printeris on sale for $32 right now, and if you use Google Checkout (which is basically using any major credit card) you'll get an extra $10 off free, making it a cool 22 bucks for a HP photo printer.

FYI, It's going for as high as $250 right now elsewhere. How can you go wrong with a 20-buck photo printer?

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