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MGM Grand SkyLofts Suites

waytoohigh — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:55:22 +0000

How ScanMyPhotos.com takes care of its employees at the SkyLofts Suites at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas during one of our regular company adventures.

ScanMyPhotos.com Holiday party in Las Vegas video

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SPECIAL 50% DISCOUNT: How to Scan APS: Unlimited Advantix – APS Film Scanning $4.98 per roll, How Can I View My APS Advantix Film on the Computer?

waytoohigh — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:42:05 +0000

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APS FILM SCANNING

Now is the perfect time to have all your APS film cartridges professionally scanned and digitally preserved as jpeg files

Although APS (Advanced Photo System) film is analog, you can easily have it converted to digital images and stored on your computer. ScanMyPhotos.com are experts in professionally preserving, photos, slides and film, which includes APS film formats.

All APS Film Scanning at 2000 dpi

Pay just $4.98 to scan previously developed APS film, any roll size, from 15 exp, 25 exp and 40 exp APS film cartridges to jpeg digital files. ScanMyPhotos.com provides super-fast service and archives up to 6 rolls of film onto one CD/DVD.
If you have boxes of Kodak Advantix and other brand APS film, this is the ideal time to have everything digitally scanned for this low price.
Includes color and density corrections
Kodak Digital Ice Software enhancements for color APS film
Same day scanning service applies.
Your APS film negatives are scanned at 2200 dpi which outputs at 500dpi @ 4×6 (2000×3000 pixels, or 6MP)

THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. ALL APS SCANNING IS NOW AT A LOWER PRICE THAN 2009. ROLLS ARE NOW ALWAYS JUST $5 OR $10 PER ROLL DEPENDENT ON THE SELECTED RESOLUTION. CHOOSE EITHER 2,000 OR 4,000 DPI SCANS FOR YOUR APS FILM.

ScanMyPhotos.com CEO, Mitch Goldstone to Address Intl Photo Imaging Conference in Cologne, Germany

waytoohigh — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:08:50 +0000

IRVINE, Calif.–“Pictures are everything, we make yours last a lifetime and more,” is what ScanMyPhotos.com has championed as a pioneer in super-fast and affordable photo scanning and digital imaging. This slogan is the foundation for the parent company’s (30 Minute Photos Etc.) 19-years of leadership in the photo imaging industry.

Protecting generations of analog and today’s digital pictures will be the central theme of Mitch Goldstone’s discussion at the Photo Imaging News and INTERNATIONAL CONTACT 2nd International Business Forum Cologne event. “Memories Are More…” will occur on October 21 and 22, 2009 at the Koelnmesse Congress Center North in Cologne, Germany

Session Overview: Goldstone, president and CEO of U.S.-based ScanMyPhotos.com will share insights for reinventing the photo imaging business by using KODAK Picture Kiosks, KODAK Rapid Print Scanners and KODAK APEX (Adaptive Picture Exchange) as the foundation for having something new to share with consumers. According to Goldstone, “today’s modern tool for promoting these innovations is Twitter and other social networking strategies. Twitter is transformative. As digital was to film, Twitter is to traditional yellow page display phone books. It is revolutionary, free, and the preferred new instrument for listening to and engaging your prospective customers with a helpful and authentic dialogue.”

Goldstone will share proven tips about how his company gained international recognition and customers by implementing social network marketing. You will take away invaluable lessons that you can immediately implement to enhance your sales, reputation and buzz-marketing for your memory business.

Conference Info: http://photo-news.com/pdf/IBFCologne09.pdf

ScanMyPhotos.com is a well-known leader in the photo imaging industry. The company operates a retail photo center in southern California and an international ecommerce digital imaging enterprise which has scanned tens of millions of photos since 1990. They regularly are profiled in the national media for its innovations and entrepreneurial creativity to help picture-takers save and share their generations of photo memories. The ScanMyPhotos.com Web site lists scores of news profiles, including a profile in The New York Times by “Personal Tech” columnist, David Pogue and is ranked #16 on the Photography Web 100 listing. Follow them on Twitter (Twitter.com/ScanMyPhotos) and at Tales from the World of Photo Scanning [blog.ScanMyPhotos.com].

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Oprah Winfrey Would Love This Inspirational Saga, Explains ScanMyPhotos.com

waytoohigh — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:11:45 +0000

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IRVINE, Calif.–(Businesswire)–Two ways to get Oprah Winfrey’s attention and be recognized as one of her “Favorite Things.”

1) Write a press release;
2) Have an emotional story that shares an innovative and affordable way to digitally preserve generations of photo snapshots

During a recent European trip, destiny greeted Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman as they dined on the Greek Island of Mykonos. At the next table was Bernard LaChance, a charismatic Canadian singer who shared his story about creativity attracting the interest of talk show superstar Oprah Winfrey.

See links to Mr. LaChance’s YouTube story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohGOH20aGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWJCTujSQw&feature=related

As an influential icon, Oprah Winfrey inspires millions. Her recent segment on LaChance was the type of emotional story of remarkable people with inventive talents that make people watch and cheer. The ScanMyPhotos.com story is magical in a different way. It inspires other businesses not to give up during challenging economic cycles and threatening technology transformations. “By reaching out to Oprah and hopefully becoming part of her “Favorite Things,” our story can rekindle entrepreneurial passion by others to also reinvent and recalibrate how they do business,” said Goldstone, President & CEO, ScanMyPhotos.com.

As the photo imaging industry shifted from film to digital, many businesses closed – a lifetime of dreams dissolved. Rather than giving up, Goldstone and Berman, founders of a retail photo center based in Southern California, persevered. They rode the wave of change and expanded their retail photo center into an international E-commerce company that digitally preserves and shares tens of millions of photo memories. For just $49.95, they digitally scan up to 1,000 photos; the prepaid fill-the-box service holds about 2,000 photos and includes all shipping with same day return for just $124.95.

Just as LaChance captured Oprah’s attention, ScanMyPhotos.com is hoping for an encore to also share its story on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” By embracing change and reinventing every aspect of entrepreneurship,

ScanMyPhotos.com made a comeback and inspires others to never give up. Goldstone regularly addresses technology and trade associations; in October he will be in Germany to share insights on how to reinvent the photo imaging industry,

ScanMyPhotos.com is ranked 16th on the Web100.com Photography listing and was included as “The Best of LA 2009” by Los Angeles Magazine. David Pogue profiled ScanMyPhotos.com in his “Personal Tech” column in The New York Times. Scores of other profiles are referenced on the Web site. The company has trusted KODAK brand products since 1990 and credits the Eastman Kodak Company with pioneering new ways to share pictures in today’s all-digital world. “We launched an entirely new business by commercializing KODAK scanning technology, KODAK Photo Kiosks and KODAK APEX (Adaptive Picture Exchange) printing to provide innovative new products for our customers,” explained Goldstone.

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Save 10% off our new Mixbook Family History Albums; spend $15 or more! Use code FALLMIX10. Ends September 30!

waytoohigh — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:10:11 +0000

New Family History Themed Mixbook Photo Albums You Design Online in Minutes!

Beautiful custom photo albums from your newly scanned ScanMyPhotos.com pictures and all digital images – Always free to design and share online!

NO CHARGE TO DESIGN AND PREVIEW YOUR PHOTO ALBUM – Click here to sample

AutoMix is our latest and greatest feature, allowing anyone to create a photobook in mere seconds. It is simple and easy to use, and completely revolutionary. Using innovative technology, we’ve created a way to lay out all your photos in a beautiful and ready-to-print book. Just pick a theme, select some photos, and you’re done! You can edit it how you like by adding text, changing the backgrounds, and customizing it until you’re satisfied. AutoMix makes creating a photobook easier than ever before!

You can enjoy your photobooks online and share them with the world by embedding our Mixbook player on your website or blog. Just use the sharing tool bar or copy and paste the simple embed code located on your profile. It’s that easy! Now your family and friends can marvel at your creativity!

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How to Order Custom Photo Albums With 1000’s of Styles

waytoohigh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:19:16 +0000

Click here to begin your amazing Photo Book experience from ScanMyPhotos.com and Mixbook

What is a photo book?
A photo book is the next evolution of the photo album using your digital photos brought to you by ScanMyPhotos.com, partnering with Mixbook.com. Our photobook creator was designed to be easy to use and all online – no software download is necessary. We offer hundreds of layouts and backgrounds to choose from along with customizable frames and text to make your book beautiful. Just pick a layout, drag-and-drop your photos into the photo slots, and edit to your heart’s content. Photo books are free to create and share online. Pricing starts at just $6.99 per printed book for soft cover and $19.99 per hard cover.

Free Online Editor – No download needed and no software to buy. You are only charged if you purchase a book
Photo Zoom – zoom in on any photo and move it to place the photo within the frame
Photo Rotation – rotate your photos in the photo slots
Custom Frames – choose from our selection, or make your own frame by editing the thickness, color, and fill
Custom Color Matching – when selecting background colors and text colors, you can drag the tiny eyedropper tool anywhere on the page to match the colors
Transparent Text Boxes and Backgrounds – Change the transparency of backgrounds and the color of text boxes
Photo Integration – take photos from sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Yahoo! Photo search to use in your Mixbook

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Instant AutoMix Book – Short on time? Let the Mixbook software create a book for you that can then be edited to your liking. It does most of the work for you and you just make tweaks as you see fit.

Create a photo book for every occasion:

Family History Photo Album
Wedding Photo Books
Baby Memory Books
School Yearbooks
Wedding Guest Books
Wedding Scrapbooks
Baby Scrapbook How is it different than the photo index book?
The photo book is designed by you through ScanMyPhotos.com using our templates to create a memory book of an event or special occasion. They are great for gifts or as a way to tell a story with your photos. The photo index book is designed to help you organize your photos by creating a thumbnail image of your photo along with the file name to create an easy way to catalog your photo memories. Learn more about the photo index book.

More Information
View products and pricing
Frequently asked questions
Watch a 30 second demo video
Visit the Mixbook.com home page

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Create your own Photo Book from scratch! (entirely using Mixbook software)

Even more ways you can use photo books:
Many people are creating impressive and treasured family history photo books. They gather photographic material and prints from across the country and the world. The format, quality and condition of these vary enormously in the amount of care and effort in putting these together. If you plan to use a lot of old prints, slides or negatives, you will need the right scanner for your needs. Or you can use a scanning service, which will save you a lot of time.

If you are about to renovate, remodel or decorate your home, use photo books to tell the story. Do a before-and-after series on facing pages. Learn how to place a tripod for identical positioning. For interior shots, lower the viewing height, and point the camera level to avoid those converging doorways and walls. Include pictures of yourself and others working on the renovation, as part of the story. Visit ScanMyPhotos.com

Need a last minute gift? How about a simple photo book? Just make sure the book is one the recipient will enjoy receiving and will value, not just politely keep in a drawer and bring out when you visit them.

If you take a lot of good photographs for a family wedding, then this can make for a wonderful photo book. And you can add in other pictures of the happy couple as they first met, and on early dates, as part of the story. You can determine the style and quality that will allow you to make copies for the closest family members and friends. If funds are tight, maybe each person who wants one could offer to pay for their own, much as people do when they order from the photographer.

Sharing the news and pictures of a new baby can be done with a little photo book. It does not have to be a huge production or expensive – there are many simple and budget-priced books that can be chosen from.

A wonderful and caring approach is to create a tribute or memory book for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Here are a few tips… Caption and group the pictures to make sense for them. For example, someone with dementia is likely to be prompted by the inscription they once wrote on the back of a photo, even if it is cryptic to others. Be careful adding your own interpretations. But do add in names of others in the pictures and their relationships to your loved one. Maybe some added explanation and facts.

This can help you and the caregivers go through the book over and over again with your loved one, and for it to be a fresh experience every time.

It’s important for children need to see photos of themselves and their parents, and images of their grandparents at younger ages. They get a much better sense of their own identity through seeing their place in the larger family.

What better way to do this than give them their own family history book loaded with characters and stories? Pictures with captions, and more detailed stories they will grow into as they learn to read. They will be able to share this with their friends and classmates. Keep the separate set of digital originals on file, so that if a book is lost or damaged, you can easily have another made up from the same images.

So, with the range of books, styles, quality, formats and services available to you, whether online or at your local camera store, you can take advantage of this and create wonderful bound books, for whatever purpose you need.

NOTE: This is not the ScanMyPhotos.com custom “Photo Index Book.” For information about the Photo Index Book, please click here

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Data Recovery: How to Recover Your Lost Digital Files

waytoohigh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:58:00 +0000

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We have all experienced it, the panic that one feels when you accidentally hit “Delete All” instead of “Delete Image”. Perhaps you insert your card into your computer and it says, “The disc is not formatted, would you like to format now?” The most important thing to remember is if you’ve lost your digital images, DON’T PANIC. Stop doing anything more to the card.

You made the switch to digital to preserve your photos and now they are gone. ScanMyPhotos.com can help. Send us your media and let us try to recover the files for you instead of losing hope that your European vacation is lost. ScanMyPhotos.com searches your media at a low level to recover and rescue corrupted or lost data from damaged, unreadable, or defective disks. We are optimized to recover your photo image data but can also recover data and movie files. In some cases, we can even rebuild pictures that have suffered minor corruptions.We can recover data from:

Memory Sticks and Memory Stick Pro
Compact Flash
SD and Mini SD Cards (SecureDigital Card)
XD Cards
CompactFlash Cards
Thumb Drives
SmartMedia
Microdrives

ScanMyPhotos.com, headquartered in Irvine, California will place your recovered files onto a DVD data disc and return your media card with the DVD. While data recovery is not guaranteed, if your card is damaged, corrupted, or has been formatted, ScanMyPhotos.com is the best data-recovery solution you can get for your lost photos. See pricing below.

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How to Reinvent the Photo Industry

waytoohigh — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:58:02 +0000

Thanks to New York Times reporter, Sarah Lyall (@SarahLyall) for her August 1st front page profile on Ryanair CEO, Michael O’Leary. The smart lessons make for a Harvard case study on how every industry must refocus how they operate and manage growth. This month, Delta Air Lines is profiling ScanMyPhotos.com in Delta Sky, it’s in-flight magazine, so there is a connection between us and the airlines. Neraly 15-million worldwide passengers will read this “Editors’ Pick profile.

Just like the transportation business, the photo industry is ripe with failures. Rather than fuel being the transending inconvenience, for us it is technology and the transition from film to digital that has burdened our business. It is possible, and we proved it, about how to instantly reinvent the photo imaging industry; it took us 19-years, but the results are now transparent.

Mr. O’Leary’s message is a salutable model for every business. To reinvigorate and reengage customers requires a new approach. Pricing, technology and instant service is paramount and augments an uncompromising commitment to professional quality. Just as travelers want to safely arrive at their destination and not pay a premium price, ScanMyPhotos.com has equally pioneered a new way of thinking about pictures.

There are 3.5 trillion analog photos tucked away in shoe boxes. These fading memories must be shared, preserved and repurposed for today’s all-digital computer world.

For Mr. O’Leary, it went as far as charging for in-flight lavatory use. When asked what happens if “the plane were stricken by some nasty, effluent illness, like food poisoning? A snorting noise wafted over from the chair where Mr. O’Leary was sitting. “We don’t serve enough food for everybody to get food poisoning,” he said.”

At ScanMyPhotos.com, we recognized that millions of domestic and international picture-takers also want no-frills service, but, Ritz Carlton-like service. The KODAK slogan is “you press the button, we do the rest” and that too has been our principle motto. We provide the basics, plus a menu of hundreds of other ways to share and save photo memories. Once the images are digitized, we provide the magic that enables consumers to jettison how they historically thought about pictures; especially those memories from decades and generations of favored photographs.

There is a flourishing opportunity to recast how the photo imaging industry thinks about pictures. At the forefront is ScanMyPhotos.com, which is constantly using our entrepreneurial might to develop new ways to share and preserve those memories. For a menu of photo products, see

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Like Ryanair, since 1990, our business has always had shock value, but in a remarkable way; orders are completed and returned faster than it takes to find your seat on an airplane. It is the magic behind what we do and how we dazzle our customers that has caused such raving reviews, from The New York Times Personal Tech columnist, David Pogue, to the scores of other news profiles. A key value proposition is also our free 24/7 live support help desk to instantly solve most photo imaging questions [give it a try].

The backstage secret: Always trust KODAK technology, it has been a boon to our business. We are even recognized by Web100 as the sixteenth best photography Web site. It is back to the future as tens of millions of analog photo snapshots are instantly being digitized to share and preserve generations of family memories.

There is an urgency to digitize photos, slides and negatives before they fade away. We are the pioneers of super-fast and affordable scanning (less than $50 to scan 1,000 photographic pictures in minutes) by commercializing all types of KODAK technology.

Organizing and sharing photographs has never been simpler or more necessary as thousands of new iPhone, Internet and retail photo lab applications are driving demand to revisit pictures. Photo scanning is reinventing and growing the entire photo imaging category and we are honored to play a key role. Because of our international stature, the company regularly travels the world in our quest to educate and invent new growth opportunities. During the next few months, we will traveling to Italy, Greece, Egypt, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. The company has been a longtime and active member of the Photo Marketing Association for nearly twenty-years.

By solving the biggest problem in photography, bulk photo scanning is fast, effortless and affordable. Send your photos, or order online the prepaid, fill-the-box service that holds about 2,000 photos from ScanMyPhotos.com which includes same day service and completely free shipping for just $124.95 (buy two boxes and the third is free).

Scanning is also revitalizing the entire photo imaging category. Once pictures are digitized, consumers are ordering reprints, giant collage enlargements, custom photo greeting cards, photo albums and dozens of other products online at ScanMyPhotos.com and at its retail photo center, which exclusively promotes KODAK photo kiosks, printed on the new KODAK APEX eco-friendly dry lab system. There are also thousands of independent KODAK photo kiosks located throughout the country and abroad.

Los Angeles Magazine’s “Best of LA” August issue featured ScanMyPhotos.com as “the country’s leading source of quick scans” (p. 113). Nearly 15-million airline passengers will also be reading about ScanMyPhotos.com in the August issue of Delta Sky Magazine, which selected ScanMyPhotos.com for it’s “Lifestyles Editors’ Pick” profile (p 39). Learn more from our hundreds of blog postings at Tales from the World of Photo Scanning and on Twitter.

ScanMyPhotos.com International is a division of 30 Minute Photos Etc., founded in 1990 by Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman.

Pictures are everything, we make yours last a lifetime and more. Thank you for trusting us to help preserve and share your memories.

Mitch Goldstone
President & CEO
ScanMyPhotos.com

Delta Sky Magazine’s “Editors’ Pick” Profiles ScanMyPhotos.com

waytoohigh — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:13:47 +0000

The business and lifestyle publication, Delta Sky Magazine is read by millions of airline passengers around the world. In August, Sky is profiling ScanMyPhotos.com as it’s Editors’ Pick,” See link.

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Best of LA: ScanMyPhotos.com Selected for “Our Favorite Things!”

waytoohigh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:49:42 +0000

Thanks to the editors at Los Angeles Magazine (August edition) for profiling ScanMyPhotos.com as one of your favorite things.

THE BEST OF LA 2009

Overview of The Best of LA: Reporting for Best of L.A. involves lurking and surreptitious note taking. It requires undercover visits to spas and bars, blind tasting carrot cakes from 15 bakeries, and investigating fishing holes. For the past few months we (34 reporters in all) roamed the city—sampling, questioning, comparing, debating. The results are in: We have determined the best cheese plate, children’s theater, ethnic vegan restaurant, and beach for novice surfers. We discovered that best doesn’t always mean most expensive. Accolades this year go to a cheap brow job, a Laundromat, a tuna melt, and jewelry under $300. So kick back and enjoy the fruits of our fun labors.

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