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January 6, 2010

Make More of Your Photos

Filed under: Photography Resources — admin @ 11:20 am

We all want to make the most of our wedding photos and a new service from totalPIX makes it very easy with their beautifully bound photobooks.

Like all the best ideas, the idea of a photobook is very simple. Until now if you wanted to compile your own wedding album you first needed to get your photos printed. Unless you have a very expensive photo-quality printer, this meant getting them printed professionally either online or at a local photography outlet. Then they had to be put in the album and any captions you wanted either hand written or printed out and then added to the pages.

With a totalPIX photobook, you simply download the totalPIX software which includes several wedding templates, drag and drop your photos onto the template, add your captions and then upload everything to totalPIX.

A couple of days later, so long as you are in the UK, your photobook will arrive through the post, carefully packaged in perfect condition.

As commercial litho and digital printers, totalPIX have the latest Kodak digital presses so that every single photo, however small, is printed as though it were part of a half million run mail order catalogue. In fact the look and quality of the internal pages of a photobook is quite similar to the best catalogues although of course the binding is attractive and durable as befits a wedding book that will last a lifetime.

Very often we have different types of wedding photos, there are the formal ones, with everyone demur and poised at the church or registry office and these make a wonderful souvenir of the day. But often there are more informal images we want to keep, perhaps of the party afterwards or just simply wonderful photos that capture a special moment or expression. With totalPIX photobooks, there’s no problem. Create a formal photobook of the day for that special momento and another more informal one that perhaps gives more of the atmosphere of the occasion. And what about a record of the stag and hen nights, or perhaps not!

The ability to add captions makes a photobook very personal. Add the names of guests, the date and venue, whatever is important to you.

Photobooks can be ordered in any quantity from one upwards, and once you have the finished photobook on your computer, so long as you do not delete it, you can re-send it to totalPIX at any time for extra copies for friends and relations.

A major feature of the totalPIX photobook service is its ease of use. If you can use a digital camera, you will find creating a photobook a doddle. The software includes a basic image cropping and manipulation tool if you do not have one already installed. As a precaution against a poor outcome, the software will only accept photos that have the quality and resolution to print well, after all the best press in the world cannot create an award winning image from a poor quality one.

For full details of totalPIX wedding photobooks, please visit us at www.totalpix.co.uk

Sally Kavanagh is a keen digital photographer and is an advisor to totalPIX

Tracking your emails with mailtracking.com

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 3:37 am

I’m going to tell you about a great service I use a lot and I’d like to see you use it too. Its free and it has lots of benefits and advantages.

It is to be found at mailtracking and once you sign up for it and start using it you will understand its benefits real well.

If you use it and send me an email (for example) you will get a report back that tells you when I opened your email, how long it took me to read it and if I open it, read it and close it then open it again later it wil also tell you that.

If I were to forward your email to anyone else it would tell you I did that, when that person opened it and how long they took to read it.

There are other bells and whistles too. You can do a pretty fair job of customization once you get into the configuration menus.

The one thing you want to watch out for is that you don’t demand that I send you an email receipt for opening your emails. Some of you do that now and I never hit the send button. The reason I don’t acknowledge receipt is that my firewall won’t let me do it for some strange reason. With mailtracking you don’t need that because you are going to get a receipt anyway.

Now then, let me explain the whys and wherefores bit more. Let us assume that you send me an email and I don’t answer it. Why would I ignore your emails? Well, I usually wouldn’t but sometimes when deleting some to the junk emails I get a “key bounce” effect and more than one email gets deleted. The one that got unintentionly deleted might very well have been your email. I probably would not have any way of responding to you since I don’t keep email address books because of the virus problems.

Then maybe I don’t get back to you because I’m extremely busy from time to time and your email gets shoved down the stack of constantly incoming emails and goes by unnoticed, and you don’t get the service we both want you to have.

Now then, with mail tracking you know exactly when I opened your email or if I didn’t even open it. You know that I want to give you the very best service possible and you know that I want to get your email answered within 24 hours if at all possible. That means that if I don’t answer you within 24 hours something has gone wrong. What might have gone wrong? As we all know, anything can go wrong with email. You make a typo and I don’t get it but for whatever reason you don’t get a mailer daemon return from it, So there you sit, getting madder by the hour. And I am oblivious to what has happened.

If you use mailtracking.com service lots of that frustration can be eliminated. You can send me another email if I don’t answer within 24 hours so you can be sure to get my attention and some action going for you.

If I open the email you will know when I opened it and if I don’t get back to you within 24 hours you will know it is time to start calling me or asking me what for and why.

Use it for sending email to other businesses for the same reasons. And use it with friends, relatives and whoever for the same reasons. It isn’t about trying to track them down or stalk anyone although you could come pretty close with the pro version I use. I could not use it to find your house and actually drive right up to your front door except by accident. In order to actually do that I would have to know your actual address but lacking that I could drive right up to your door, sit there in front of your house and look around me and wonder which house was really yours and not know I was sitting right in front of it. And why on earth would I want to do that anyway?

I use it because I want to know that you got what I sent you and so why wouldn’t you use it for the same reason?

I think it can be used when sending payments by paypal too. I’d like you to start trying to use it when sending in a payment. That would make sure you sent it to bbauer1@netzero.net and not to bbauer@netzero.com or some other bad address and if you did that you would have a way to track the mistake and get your money back faster so you can send it to the right address.

You don’t even have to sign up for their service to start using it. All you have to do is send an email to someone such as ceo@creditwrench.mailtracking.com and mailtracker will immediately pick up on that and send you back a confirmation telling you that they opened a free temporary account for you. Then you can follow the links in that and go sign up and customize your settings and start using it. Their pro version is only about $40 a year and I think that is well worth it when you send out as many emails as I do.

Security and service are important to all of us and this tool heightens both of those a whole lot. Get it and try it. I think you will like it.

Mr. Bauer is the CEO of Credit Wrench. The true purpose of the CREDITWRENCH program is to teach you how to recognize abuse of your rights by unscrupulous debt collectors and combat such abuse when it happens to you. It is not designed to be a credit repair program nor a debt repair program although it’s easily possible to use it for those purposes.

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