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Snapfish


Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service owned by District Photo. Snapfish is based in San Francisco, California. Snapfish was launched in 1999 by business partners Rajil Kapoor, Bala Parthasarathy, Suneet Wadhwa, and Shripati Acharya. Ben Nelson joined soon thereafter as corporate development operations lead, to become CFO and later president. Jasbir Patel is now the president and CEO of snapfish. On October 30, 2001 Snapfish was acquired by District Photo for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, Snapfish was bought by Hewlett
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members) that they were shutting down the service in Belgium, India, the Netherlands and Spain. In April 2015, HP reached an agreement to sell Snapfish back to District Photo. Under the terms of the sale, HP allowed the company to continue to use its printing services. During a website conversion in 2016 Snapfish had a data loss while converting to their new web system. Photos prior to January 2014 were unable to be migrated to the new website system. Snapfish said that although some photo albums were recovered, others
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Ben Nelson (businessman)


Ben Nelson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Minerva Project, a company whose goal is to provide an Ivy League education at a fraction of the price. As the CEO of Minerva Project, Nelson partnered with Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont University Consortium, to form the Minerva Schools at KGI. Prior to founding the Minerva Project, he was known for being the president of online photo hosting and printing service Snapfish at the time of its acquisition by HP. Nelson joined Snapfish in 1999. In
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Publix


, floral, meat, and seafood departments. Some stores have valet parking, cafés, sushi bars, pharmacy departments, and/or a liquor store. The customer service counter also provides check cashing, money orders, Western Union services, Rug Doctor rentals, and lottery tickets. Some stores also provide DVD rental services. In December 2005, Publix discontinued its photo processing service, replacing it with an online or mail-order service via the Snapfish program. The Snapfish agreement has since been terminated, and Publix no longer offers photo
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Shutterfly


, Apollo Global Management announced that it would acquire Shutterfly for $2.7 billion, as well as its competitor Snapfish in a separate transaction valued at around $300 million. Apollo plans to merge both companies into a single entity, with Snapfish parent company District Photo as a minority stakeholder. Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas: In March 2011, Shutterfly acquired personalized card and stationery seller Tiny Prints, Inc. and partner-company Wedding Paper Divas for $141 million in cash and 3.9 million shares. The total transaction was valued at
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Print on demand


of copyrights and royalties is often less important for this market, as the books themselves have a small clientele (close family and friends, for instance). The major photo storage services (e.g. Eastman Kodak's Ofoto and Shutterfly and Hewlett-Packard's Snapfish) have included the ability to produce picture books and calendars. However, they emphasize digital photography. The companies Blurb and Lulu apply this method to a greater volume of creative work (primarily text, as typed in personal weblogs), and include the capability to embed
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Snapfish Lab


Snapfish Lab was a web portal and application framework that HP Labs provides to showcase some of its imaging research and to solicit feedback from users and the imaging research community. The site contained a series of new experimental imaging tools. A set of sample photographs allowed the user to try the tools without registering. If users logged on with their Snapfish user credentials they could use the tools on their own photograph collections. A discussion forum allowed users to give feedback on their experience. Snapfish Lab was a service of HP Labs, the
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Ben Nelson (businessman)


November 2000, Nelson brought the company to profitability and guided Snapfish's 2001 sale to District Photo. Since 2002, Nelson has been both Snapfish's CFO and the company's leading business strategist. He became president of Snapfish in March 2005, just before the acquisition of the company by Hewlett-Packard. Afterwards, he continued to run the company as an HP subsidiary. Prior to Snapfish, Nelson was president and CEO of Community Ventures. He also helped start the Mergers & Acquisition practice at Dean & Co, a first
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Shutterfly


. Shutterfly enables users to create personalized photo gifts (including photos and text) such as smartphone cases, photo books, wall art, and home décor. It competes with Snapfish, and other online photo services. In August 2014, the total number of customers was 2.6 million, reflecting an increase of 13% from the prior-year quarter. Total orders generated were 4.2 million, up 16% year over year. Average order value was $36.14, up 3% year over year driven by promotional strategies and integrated
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Apollo Global Management


again acquire Smart & Final for $1.1 billion. On June 10, 2019, AGM announced that it would acquire Shutterfly for $2.7 billion, as well as its competitor Snapfish in a separate transaction valued at around $300 million. Apollo plans to merge both companies into a single entity, with Snapfish parent company District Photo as a minority stakeholder. Apollo is operated by its managing partners, Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan and a team of more than 250 investment professionals, as of March 31, 2013.
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Selenium (software)


API. Where Selenium 1.0 attempted to provide a rich interface for many different browser operations, Selenium 2.0 aims to provide a basic set of building blocks from which developers can create their own Domain Specific Language. One such DSL already exists: the Watir project in the Ruby language has a rich history of good design. Watir-webdriver implements the Watir API as a wrapper for Selenium-Webdriver in Ruby. Watir-webdriver is created entirely automatically, based on the WebDriver specification and the HTML specification. As of early 2012,
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Mixbook


Mixbook is an Internet-based photo design tool and photo product service based in Palo Alto, California. Mixbook's service allows customers to design customized photo books, cards, calendars, canvas prints and photo prints through its online interface. Mixbook derives its revenues by printing customized photo products and shipping it to customers. Mixbook was founded by Andrew Laffoon and Aryk Grosz, while attending The University of California, Berkeley. The company initially created a solution to help high school groups and students create their own yearbooks. It launched its
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Snapfish


-Packard. While HP did not disclose the acquisition sum, a Merrill Lynch report estimated that HP may have paid between $300 million and $400 million for Snapfish, while Snapfish’s revenue was less than $100 million. Snapfish co-founder Raj Kapoor confirmed in a 2011 interview that the acquisition price was $300 million. In 2004, Snapfish opened a physical retail concept store in Alexandria, Virginia, but later closed it. In August 2013, Snapfish announced on their local websites (and through a mailing to
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Compact photo printer


" pictures. Given this limitation, they are not meant to replace standard inkjets. Many manufacturers advertise the cost per page of photos printed on their machines; this theoretically convinces people that they can print their own pictures just as cheaply as retail stores or through online printing services. Most compact photo printers share a similar design. They are small units, usually with large LCDs in order to allow people to browse and edit their photos, as can be done on a computer. The editing options are usually somewhat advanced, allowing
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Persil Service


and Fujifilm teamed up, stores were outfitted with Fujifilm lab equipment. All stores contain a Fujifilm FP 363SC for fast processing of one-hour 35mm films rolls and a Fujifilm Digital Minilab Frontier 340, which allowed up to 900 customer photos to be processed per hour. The minilab was connected to a Fujifilm Smartpix digital terminal, located in the shop area which allows customers to print their own digital photos but at the same quality as other photos printed on a chemical printer. Persil Service operated a key cutting service in most
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Snapfish


will remain empty. Typically Snapfish has three versions of images: high resolution, low resolution, and printable images. Both the high resolution and low resolution were lost and the backup files for the printable images were not recoverable. On September 28, 2018 it was announced that Snapfish would acquire CafePress for more than $25 Million. The acquisition of CafePress was completed on November 9, 2018. On June 10, 2019, Apollo Global Management announced that it would acquire both Snapfish and its rival Shutterfly in separate deals valued at
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FotoInsight


FotoInsight is a digital photo processing service for Windows, Mac OS and Linux users that was founded in 2003 in Cambridge, England, and is Europe's largest independent photo printer. FotoInsight employs over 4,000 staff. across Europe with over 3 billion photo prints printed annually. FotoInsight's managing director Klaas Brumann owns a controlling interest in the company. In June 2005, Intel Corp's UK division threatened legal action against FotoInsight for trademark infringement due to FotoInsight's use of the name slogan "The 'INSIDE' format" which Intel
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Watir


the manipulating program an automation controller. Technically, the Internet Explorer process is the server and serves the automation objects, exposing their methods; while the Ruby program then becomes the client which manipulates the automation objects. Watir-webdriver is a modern version of the Watir API based on Selenium. Selenium 2.0 (selenium-webdriver) aims to be the reference implementation of the WebDriver specification. In Ruby, Jari Bakken has implemented the Watir API as a wrapper around the Selenium 2.0 API. Not only is Watir-webdriver derived from
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Webdriver Torso


see how much quality was lost. When YouTube was asked about Webdriver Torso, they replied: "We're never gonna give you uploading that's slow or loses video quality, and we're never gonna let you down by playing YouTube in poor video quality. That's why we're always running tests like Webdriver Torso." This is a reference to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up". When "Webdriver Torso" is searched into Google, the Google logo will look like a
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WebDrive


WebDrive is a drive mapping utility that uses open FTP, FTPS, SFTP, and WebDAV protocols to access remote file servers, and proprietary or vendor-specific protocols to access those types of servers as well. WebDrive's features are: Though associated with traditional FTP protocols, WebDrive has had a long history of being considered a unique type of FTP client because it made remote folders look like part of the native operating system's file manager rather than display a "two pane" view (a.k.a. an "orthodox file manager
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PNI Digital Media


PNI Digital Media is a company that operates an enterprise-class e-commerce platform which allows retailers to provide print-on-demand personalized products and services to their customers. Retailers who license the PNI platform use PNI's software to offer photo prints, photo gift merchandise, small business marketing products, document printing services and other print-on-demand merchandise. Large companies like Costco, Sam's Club and Staples use PNI Digital Media's software platform to allow customers to create and order personalized products such as photo prints
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Apple Photos


its predecessors, Photos initially included a number of options for professional printing of photos, which could then optionally be turned into books or calendars and mailed to an address. With Photos, Apple added new types of prints, including square sizes and the ability to print panoramas. In July 2018, Apple announced, via a pop-up message in Photos, that they would be discontinuing these services, adding that users should submit any final orders by September 30, 2018. iCloud Photo Sharing allows sharing photos with others. Others
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TouchNote


, framed photos, photo canvases and boxes of prints using their own photos. Orders are sent anywhere in the world with a functioning postal system, but are printed and posted from print centres based in the UK, USA, Germany and Australia. The postcards are 6 x 4-inch, and the greeting cards are 7 x 5-inch, printed with a gloss finish. In 2014, the TouchNote iPhone app was updated to allow photo collage cards to be created, where the user could add multiple photos onto one card. In March
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Amazon Drive


Amazon Drive, formerly known as Amazon Cloud Drive, is a cloud storage application managed by Amazon. The service offers secure cloud storage, file backup, file sharing, and Photo printing. Using an Amazon account, the files and folders can be transferred and managed from multiple devices including web browsers, desktop applications, mobiles, and tablets. Amazon Drive also lets their U.S. users order photo prints and photo books using the Amazon Prints service. Today, Amazon Drive offers free unlimited photo storage with an Amazon Prime subscription or a
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Time for print


to a physically printed photo, usually on photo paper. The foundation of the concept of TFP being that both a photographer and a model get together and exchange their 'time', for free, and each receives the photos for their own usage. Since photos can now be delivered by means other than 'Prints,' some variant wordings of this arrangement are: Time for CD or Trade for CD (TFCD). With TFCD, the photographer provides the selection of images on a CD instead of prints. Similarly,
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List of Amazon products and services


Amazon Drive also lets their U.S. users order photo prints and photo books using Amazon Prints service. Amazon majorly offers two plans in their marketplaces - Prime Photos and Unlimited Storage. The "Prime Photos" plan offers unlimited storage for photos and RAW files, and a 5 gigabytes of storage for videos and other files, whereas "Unlimited Storage" plan, intended for non-business customer sections, offers unlimited storage for photos, videos, documents, and files in other formats. In August 2005, Amazon began selling products under
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Photo-book


The resulting book is printed on digital color printers and case bound. Professional printing and binding services offer easy creation of photo books with professional layouts and individual layout capabilities. Because of the integrated design and order workflow, hardcover bound books with customized pictures and text can be produced very cost-effectively. Currently there are many photo book software companies who sell licensed solutions to photo labs and print houses so that their customers can create photo books (and other photo related paraphernalia) with ease. These software solutions are available for free
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Selenium (software)


Simon Stewart (inventor of WebDriver), who was then with Google and now with Facebook, and David Burns of Mozilla were negotiating with the W3C to make WebDriver an internet standard. In July 2012, the working draft was released and the recommendation followed in June 2018. Selenium-Webdriver (Selenium 2.0) is fully implemented and supported in Python, Ruby, Java and C#. On April 24, 2019, Selenium 4 Alpha release launched for use. Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a server, written in
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Selenium (software)


writing tests in Selenese, tests can also be written in various programming languages. These tests then communicate with Selenium by calling methods in the Selenium Client API. Selenium currently provides client APIs for Java, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, R and Python. With Selenium 2, a new Client API was introduced (with "WebDriver" as its central component). However, the old API (using class "Selenium") is still supported. Selenium WebDriver is the successor to Selenium RC. Selenium WebDriver accepts commands (
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Webdriver Torso


friends with another employee, "Matei Gruber". A "Matei" is mentioned on 00014 (see above). Ventuno then compared scenes from pulled videos with Google Zürich photos, and noticed matching things, indicating that the pulled videos were recorded at Google Zürich, and that the channel and all similar channels were run from Google Zürich. The videos are made to test YouTube video quality. After creation, the videos are uploaded to YouTube. The uploaded videos are then compared to the videos before they were uploaded, to
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Ilford Photo


Ilford Photo re-launched the in-house black-and-white lab service as "Ilford Lab Direct". The mail order service offers black-and-white film processing and silver gelatin printing from film or from digital files. The launch saw the introduction of a dedicated website www.ilfordlab.com. The service has continued to expand offering Medium and Large format processing and Digital Black and white Lightjet prints. In 2009, Ilford Lab Direct was awarded a Gold Award by Digital Photo magazine "Best online Black and White Printer"
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Selenium (software)


does not need a special server to execute tests. Instead, the WebDriver directly starts a browser instance and controls it. However, Selenium Grid can be used with WebDriver to execute tests on remote systems (see below). Where possible, WebDriver uses native operating system level functionality rather than browser-based JavaScript commands to drive the browser. This bypasses problems with subtle differences between native and JavaScript commands, including security restrictions. In practice, this means that the Selenium 2.0 API has significantly fewer calls than does the Selenium 1.0
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Kodak


formats, but it has discontinued the manufacture of film in older and less popular formats. Kodak is a leading producer of silver halide (AgX) paper used for printing from film and digital images. Minilabs located in retail stores and larger central photo lab operations (CLOs) use silver halide paper for photo printing. In 2005 Kodak announced it would stop producing black-and-white photo paper. Kodak is a manufacturer of self-service photo kiosks that produce "prints in seconds" from multiple sources including digital input,
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Stereo Realist


an uncut strip. The Stereo Realist was designed to use slide film. Although it is possible to use print film in it, it has never been easy to find labs that could properly print 5P format prints. Users who do not do their own film processing but which have their own 35mm film scanner and a computer with photo editing software such as Photoshop or GIMP can have their negatives returned uncut (lab dependent) and can prepare the images for printing on standard size photo paper themselves. Slide film is no longer
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National Magazine Awards


" - and "Service and Lifestyle" - "Honors the visual excellence of print and digital magazines covering fashion, food, travel and design." Previously known as Photo Portfolio/Photo Essay (2004-2006) and Photo Portfolio (2007-2010). "Honors the use of original photography in a feature story, photo-essay or photo portfolio." "Honors publications that have devoted a single print issue or a major digital package to the comprehensive examination of one subject" No award was given in 2000
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Microsoft Photos


photo/video import tool provides the ability to view and select photos that are automatically grouped by date-taken and choose where the files are saved. Photos can show individual pictures, display all pictures in a folder as a slide show, reorient them in 90° increments or through a granular control, print them either directly or via an online print service, send them in e-mail or save them to a folder or disc. Windows Photo Viewer supports images in BMP, JPEG, JPEG XR (formerly HD Photo
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Scrapbooking


experience. Each paper, photo, or embellishment exists on its own layer in your document, and you can reposition them at your discretion. Furthermore, digital scrapbooking is not limited to digital storage and display. Many digital scrappers print their finished layouts to be stored in scrapbook albums. Others have books professionally printed in hard bound books to be saved as keepsakes. Professional printing- and binding-services offer free software to create scrapbooks with professional layouts and individual layout capabilities. Because of the integrated design and order workflow, real hardcover
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Mail & Guardian


newspaper stories before they reached newspaper subscribers. Soon after, the service expanded into a searchable online archive, published in partnership with Sangonet, the country's oldest internet service provider. A website was added, which in turn progressed from producing a weekly mirror of the printed newspaper to generating its own daily news. The "Mail & Guardian Online" was jointly owned by internet service provider MWEB and publishing company M&G Media until M&G Media purchased 100% of the operation in 2008. It has interactive news photo galleries, discussion forums
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Kodak Picture Kiosk


Kodak Picture Kiosk (previously known as Kodak Picture Maker) is a line of self service photo printing kiosks manufactured by the Eastman Kodak company. The units typically consist of an order station connected to one or more dye-sublimation printer(s) in a single unit. These stations are typically installed in a retail location such as Kodak Express stores, supermarkets and drugstores offering both instant print and behind the counter services. The kiosks allow printing digital photos from digital media (such as a CD or a digital memory card), as
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Fotki


personal blogs and forums. Fotki runs photo contests on a regular basis. Participation is open to all registered members. Usually, first 3 winners receive a one-year Premium membership, but sometimes there may be other prizes involved if the contest is sponsored by a third party. Effective May 11, 2007, Fotki runs a weekly "My Photo Of The Week" contest. Fotki.com offers printing services which include (as of April, 2010) digital photo prints, postcards, photo mugs, T-shirts, magnets,
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Fotki


mouse-pads and photo frames at competitive prices. Professional photographers can sell their photos at their own price, higher than the printing cost imposed by Fotki. The difference in price minus 15% commission fee goes to the photographer. Earned money is remitted by PayPal, check or bank transfer. Photographers who offer their photos for sale can upload small size, low-res or watermarked images to avoid theft. When such photo is requested, the photographer has the option to securely upload the full size image for printing. Fotki
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Lulu.com


color. In 2009, Lulu.com began publishing and distributing ebooks. Lulu.com also prints and publishes calendars and photo books. In 2017, Lulu.com introduced an Open Access print-on-demand service. Authors upload their book as a PDF file to Lulu.com using their book creation process. Material is submitted in digital form for publication. Authors can then buy copies of their own book and/or make it available for purchase in the Lulu Bookstore. Applying an ISBN and meeting distribution requirements makes books eligible for distribution to online retail outlets such as
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Windows Photo Viewer


can show individual pictures, display all pictures in a folder as a slide show, reorient them in 90° increments, print them either directly or via an online print service, send them in e-mail or burn them to a disc. Windows Photo Viewer supports images in BMP, JPEG, JPEG XR (formerly HD Photo), PNG, ICO, GIF and TIFF file formats. Compared to Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, changes have been made to the graphical user interface in Windows Photo Viewer. Whereas Windows Picture
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Google Photos


; and it will now find all sideways photos and help the user easily flip them to normal orientation. For all of these features, Google touts machine learning does the work, with no user interaction required. In November, Google released a separate app - PhotoScan - for users to scan printed photos into the service. The app, released for iOS and Android, uses a scanning process in which users must center their camera over four dots that overlay the printed image, so that the software can combine the photographs for a
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23snaps


says that they expect most users to have a "group of approximately 5 to 10 people that can’t get enough of their updates, photos, videos etc., and outside of that group 'over sharing' is an irritation." The service's intention is to provide a secure place to share photos with a select group of family members to counter parental concerns about online privacy and copyright issues. On 1 May 2013, 23snaps expanded the service to allow users to purchase photo books and photo prints of their content from
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Kodak Picture Kiosk


kiosk uses a range of direct inputs and online image hosting services to allow the user to upload their photos for printing. Input options vary on the kiosk generation and the location. Mac formatted USB Drives are not recognized. A list of inputs is shown below: The kiosk accepts picture files in JPEG, Bitmap or TIFF formats. The kiosk uses a variety of picture enhancement tools to allow the user to make their photos better. These include: The kiosk prints photos in multiple sizes and enlargements, dependent on the retailer and
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Mixbook


. In 2013, the firm launched another photo book service called Montage, which offers a web-based interface, powered by image recognition technolog. Mixbook was named "one of the best photo book making sites" by CNET. Washington Post described Mixbook as “offering the ‘most customizable’ templates, fonts, and software—and also for options that meet any budget.” In 2015, Mixbook launched two new product lines for photo prints and canvas prints. Montage and Mosaic were featured on The Today Show, where
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Web-to-print


Web-to-print, also known as Web2Print, remote publishing or print e-commerce is commercial printing using web sites. Companies and software solutions that deal in web-to-print use standard e-commerce and online services like hosting, website design, and cross medial marketing. Partners and customers may submit print jobs, do online prepress reviews/previews, design things like postcards directly on a website using rich user interfaces, direct cross media marketing and offer services such as variable data printing, photo printing,
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Yahoo! Photos


Yahoo! Photos was a photo sharing service launched on March 28, 2000 and owned by Yahoo!, designed specifically for Yahoo! users. Users created individual photo albums, categorized their photos and placed them in the corresponding albums. Users were also able to set access of their albums by publishing them for the viewing pleasure of everyone, disabling access, or marking them as private folders for their own viewing. The service had unlimited storage for photos, but it was required that photos have the jpeg/jpg extension. In
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Disney PhotoPass


Jostens in Topeka, Kansas. Prints and other products are produced by Advanced Digital Photo Solutions, Inc through ezprints.com of the Atlanta suburb of Norcross, Georgia. A similar but separate service is offered on the Disney Cruise Line. This service is operated by Image, a company headquartered in the Cayman Islands, which runs similar photographic services on other cruiselines such as Royal Caribbean, Cunard and Norwegian Cruise Lines. While similar options such as adding Disney themed borders and characters to photos is available, photos taken onboard Disney ships are not
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Apple ID


prints or photo books directly through the iPhoto and Aperture application. The Apple ID will provide the shipping information as well as payment for the order. Users only need to choose the photos they would like to print, choose the printing service, and place the order. An Apple ID can also be used to access Apple developer resources such as Xcode and iOS SDK. However, to use an Apple ID on an Apple developer website, the user needs to provide more personal information such as what kind of applications the user plans
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James Karales


-week assignment making prints for Smith's Pittsburgh essay. He would go on to work for Smith for two years, making more than 7,000 prints and developing expertise both in the darkroom and as a photo-essayist. After leaving Magnum, Karales produced his own photo essays, including works showing what life was like for the working citizens of Rendville, Ohio, a former stop on the Underground Railroad and one of the few integrated working communities in the United States. His Rendville photo-essay would draw the attention of Edward
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Heritage Makers


and Dave Briskie (President). Heritage Makers is now a memory vertical within YGYi and expanding its services beyond North America. Consultants are paid commissions and bonuses to conduct home party "workshops" where they sell a variety of products, including custom hard-bound storybooks, greeting cards, and other printed novelties. The company provides an online service, called Heritage Studio, which allows customers to upload 2GB of photos and choose from many layouts and over 100,000 pieces of digital art to create their own projects. Heritage Makers
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Fredi Marcarini


an early interest in landscape photography and portraits of his younger sister. Marcarini began developing his own film and was printing from his own negatives by the age of 15. His education was accompanied by a succession of jobs including petrol station attendant, bartender, builder and waiter but also worked in a photo studio shooting still life, and later, whilst attending military service, as a crime scene photographer in the police force. Marcarini's greatest influences as a photographer were the works of Arthur Tress and Les Krims. Marcarini taught himself
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Photo-quality printing


Photo quality printing is the ultra high resolution reproduction of digital artwork onto printable materials such as paper, vinyl, film, polyester, etc. The combination of graphic design utilizing high resolution images printed at ultra high line screen values defines the photo quality printing process. When designing for photo quality printing, graphic designers and printers start with high resolution images of 2400 dpi or higher. Traditional full color non-photo quality printing is done from images of 1200 dpi or less. Photo quality printing requires images to contain the most color
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Photo booth


hours) for a fee. Photo booth rentals have become popular in the United States primarily for wedding receptions, sweet sixteen parties, Bar and Bat Mitzvah parties, along with a growing number of other public and private events. In addition to the photo booth and the printing of unlimited photo strips, rental companies usually include a photo booth attendant to service the photo booth and to help guests construct the guest book of photo strips. Online image hosting, compact disks containing the images and related merchandise are readily available. Celebrities are
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Lidl


Lidl Movies with it. In January 2012, Lidl launched bakeries in their stores across Europe. They consist of a small baking area with a number of ovens, together with an area where bread and pastries, such as croissants, are displayed for sale. In August 2013, Lidl UK also launched an online photo service, which prints photos and photo gifts at discounted prices. As of May 2019, Lidl US has partnered with Boxed.com to test a home delivery service using the online retailer’s technology. Lidl plans to open
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Instagram


video app that combines photos into short, one-second videos that play back-and-forth in a loop. The popularity of Instagram has led to a variety of third-party services using its functionality and adopting it into formats not officially supported. Examples include services for getting an overview of user statistics, printing photos at social events, turning a large number of photos into thumbnails for a physical book or a large poster, and dedicated apps for viewing Instagram on Mac personal computers. Following the release in October,
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Webdriver Torso


has three videos which do not follow the channel's standards, featuring instead internal references or jokes. One of them, titled "tmpRkRL85", appears a usual video until the red rectangle becomes a silhouette of Rick Astley dancing (referencing the Rickrolling phenomenon) in the second half of the video. The video "00014" is a piece of footage recorded in Paris that shows the Eiffel Tower being lit up at night. At the end of the video, the camera is put down, and the Webdriver Torso Facebook page
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Webdriver Torso


forms, construction plans and a Cicada 3301 recruitment program. Despite Google having clarified the channel's purpose, this did not explain the seemingly humorous references contained in some of the videos. These include the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" episode, the Rick Astley silhouette, and the Eiffel Tower footage. In this last, Webdriver Torso at one time commented "Matei is highly intelligent". The "Matei" in question is unknown, but Basarab Matei, Matei Mancas, Matei Gruber, and Matei Ciocarlie have all been suspected
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WildTangent


classified WildTangent's original WebDriver as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). WildTangent no longer distributes or develops WebDriver. In 2011, WildTangent challenged a patent infringement ruling against Hulu and itself by Ultramercial, LLC, which contended that the two companies had violated its 2001 patent , "Method and system for payment of intellectual property royalties by interposed sponsor on behalf of consumer over a telecommunications network", alleging that the patent was too abstract. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld Ultramercial's patent, stating that it "
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Photo album


have soft, thin pages like normal books. A coffee table book is typically larger and is bound in a hard cover, whereas a smaller photo book is normally bound in a soft cover. The print quality of photo books varies from photographic paper prints to inkjet prints on normal paper. Digital photo books have digitally printed pages as opposed to albums that consist of traditional photos. Both flush mount albums as well as coffee table books are printed digitally. The photos of flush mount albums are printed on photographic paper, which is
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Photo booth


frequent users of photo booths in parties. Apart from traditional photo printing, modern photo booths may also include the following new functions: As digital cameras, compact photo printers, and flat screen computer monitors became widely available in the early 2000s, people connected these together using a personal computer and software and created their own photo booths. Entrepreneurs began renting machines built along these lines at weddings and parties and the idea spread. From 2005 to 2012, interest in the United States for photo booth rentals grew significantly. By 2016 more
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Los Angeles Times Syndicate


The Los Angeles Times" Syndicate was a print syndication service that operated from c, 1949 to 2000. Owned by the Times Mirror Company, it also operated the Los Angeles Times" Syndicate International; together the two divisions sold more than 140 features in more than 100 countries around the world. Syndicated features included Pulitzer Prize-winning commentators and columnists, full news and feature services, editorial cartoons and comic strips, online products and photo and graphics packages. The syndicate was founded in c. 1949 by the Times Mirror Company as
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Kodak Gallery


December 13, 1999, the same day as competing service Shutterfly. While Shutterfly was funded in part by Silicon Valley businessman James Clark, Ofoto was funded in part by Jim Barksdale, Clark's former partner and co-worker from Netscape. This led to the brief "Clark vs. Bark" photo wars. Ofoto started by simply allowing users to upload JPEG images to the online service, to share online photo albums with friends, and to purchase physical silver-halide prints of photos. In 2000, Ofoto added a 35
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Compact photo printer


A compact photo printer is a stand-alone inkjet printer designed to produce 4×6 or 2×3 inch prints from digital cameras. It works without the use of a computer. It is also known as a portable photo printer or a snapshot printer. Compact photo printers came on the market shortly after the popularity of home photo printing took off in the early 2000s. They were designed as an alternative to developing photos or printing them on a standard inkjet photo printer. The majority of compact photo printers can only print 4" x 6
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Photo-quality printing


information possible. The high resolution images used in photo quality printing is saved in a CMYK file format to best utilize either the commercial printing process or inkjet printing photo quality output capabilities. CMYK dots of Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, and Black are placed next to each other in specific patterns that trick the eye into seeing millions of colors. Photo quality inkjet printing transfers 4 or more toner colors to the substrate in a single cycle through the printer. In photo quality commercial printing each color of
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Picaboo


book services. According to a 2017 review by Tom's Guide, the strong points of Picaboo are the easy to use interface and the extensive search engine for clip art, and on the negative side, a lower than expected quality of the printed pictures and fonts. PC Magazine praised the quality of the printed photo-book. On a December 2018 review, PC World found the quality of the book to be good, but criticized the lack of gift packaging options and inconsistency in photo reproduction when source pictures had lower resolution
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Webdriver Torso


Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos. Created by Google on 7 March 2013, the channel began uploading videos, from 23 September of the same year, that showed simple slides accompanied by beeps. It brought public attention in 2014, when it became a source of speculation for viewers who discovered it and noted three atypical videos featuring jokes. It remained a popular mystery until YouTube humorously acknowledged that the
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Webdriver Torso


. The "Matei" comment was apparently removed at some later time. An Italian blogger named "Soggetto Ventuno" found out that Webdriver Torso belongs to a network of accounts called "ytuploadtestpartner_torso". Ventuno then discovered some other accounts with similar videos, many of which were pulled or made private after Ventuno's investigations were published. The network linked to a Facebook page and a Twitter page, which have now both been taken down. The Facebook page had mentioned "Johannes Leitner", a Google Zürich employee. Leitner was
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Selenium (software)


the release of Selenium 2, Selenium RC has been officially deprecated in favor of Selenium WebDriver. Selenium Grid is a server that allows tests to use web browser instances running on remote machines. With Selenium Grid, one server acts as the hub. Tests contact the hub to obtain access to browser instances. The hub has a list of servers that provide access to browser instances (WebDriver nodes), and lets tests use these instances. Selenium Grid allows running tests in parallel on multiple machines and to manage different browser versions and
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Zoner Photo Studio


file formats. Changes are saved to separate files, with the original photos remaining unchanged. ZPS X incorporates editing in layers. Also all advanced features for modifying images can be found here. This module enables to create printed materials from your photos. User can design own calendar, framed picture, collage, postcard that will be automatically shipped. Creating HD video presentation of photos is possible also from this module. Photos can be exported or shared directly from ZPS X. User can upload photos to Zonerama gallery or use effective Pixbuf integration
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23snaps


and Everyme and social networks that allow photo sharing such as Instagram and Facebook. The company is based in London, and was founded by former Espotting executive Ivailo Jordanov and Yury Tereshchenko. The company is self-funded by the founders. 23snaps generates revenue through the sale of photo books and photo prints. In November 2013, 23snaps announced that the service had passed half a million users in 179 countries. Users register for a free 23snaps account and create profiles for their children within the app. They can add photos, metrics
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WebDrive


") used by most FTP clients. Its publisher claims over 5 million installations today and it remains a popular utility on college campuses and similar organizations with "casual" file transfer needs, but competing file transfer software with similar drive mapping capabilities has appeared in recent years. A Mac edition was introduced in September 2009 and mobile editions for the iOS and Android were introduced in November 2013 and March 2014 respectively. Through at least 2002 Novell rebranded an earlier version of WebDrive as NetDrive and also added iFolder transfer support to its rebranded
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Digital scrapbooking


Digital Scrapbooking can also be done online by uploading photos to a scrapbooking website. The main software programs that are typically used are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, paint.net (freeware), Filter Forge, Corel Paintshop Pro and GIMP. Journaling is done within the software programs to accompany images and to create digital storybooks, or scrapbooks, which are then published in photo books via various popular print-on-demand services, printed and added to traditional scrapbooks, burned to CDs or posted on the Web. Digital scrapbooking supplies
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Picanova


Picanova is a company providing photo printing and framing services. It is one of the largest producers of custom wall decorations in the world, with the headquarters in Cologne. In 2004, brothers Daniel and Philipp Mühlbauer from Cologne began to work on an idea for wall decorations. They found business partners in Dafen Village near Shenzhen, famous for the mass production of replicas of oil paintings. However, realizing that the market was already saturated, they decided to turn to people who wanted to have their own pictures on their walls.
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Blacks Photo Corporation


Blacks Photo Corporation, stylized as BLACKS (formerly Black's), is a Canadian online retailer of photo prints and personalized photo products, home decor items, and photofinishing services. It is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Prior to 2015, Blacks was a brick and mortar retail chain focusing on photography equipment and processing since 1939. However, due to declining business in part to the rise of digital photography and camera phones, the chain closed on August 4, 2015 Blacks' domain and app assets were sold to
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Image sharing


without the distraction of advertisements or promotions for prints and gifts. They may also have other enhancements over free services, such as guarantees regarding the online availability of photos, more storage space, the ability for non-account holders to download full-size, original versions of photos, and tools for backing up photos. Some offer user photographs for sale, splitting the proceeds with the photographer, while others may use a disclaimer to reserve the right to use or sell the photos without giving the photographer royalties or notice. Some
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Interactive kiosk


marquee example began with Kodak who had at one point had over 100,000 units up and running in the U.S. Many of these units were customized PC's with an LCD which would then print to central printer in Customer service. Two major classes of photo kiosks exist: Digital Order Stations -- This type of photo kiosk exists within retail locations and allows users to place orders for prints and photographic products. Products typically get produced in-store by a digital minilab, or at another location to be shipped directly to the consumer, or
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HP Indigo Division


formed by Benny Landa in 1977. Landa, known as the father of digital offset color printing, was born in Poland to post-World War II Jewish refugee parents, who later immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Landa's interest in printing goes back to the time he worked as a child in his father's photo shop. His father purchased a cigar store that had a small photo studio in the back which he developed, using his skills as a carpenter, into his own portrait studio. While a student
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Photo album


comparable to the quality of traditionally developed photos. Coffee table books, on the other hand, are printed with inkjet on ordinary paper and are therefore of a lower quality. Digital printing gives the album designer a vast number of design possibilities, for example magazine-style or montage albums are only possible with digital printing. Digital photo books are increasingly popular because they allow anyone with a digital camera to create coffee table books of their photos. Also, it is often considered easier to print photos onto pages directly, rather than
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Media of Afghanistan


. The Taliban instigated the destruction of television sets in 1998. People caught with a television in their homes were subject to monetary fines, flogging, or imprisonment. Most media operated from other countries, except for a small area in northern Afghanistan, which had its own television service called "Badakhshan Television". It broadcast news and films for around 5,000 viewers for three hours a day. All television stations were shut down in 1996 by order of the Taliban, and printed newspapers were forbidden to publish commentary, photos, or
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Kodak


personalized print applications for purposes such as direct mail, books, marketing collateral and photo products. The Digimaster platform uses monochrome electrophotographic printing technology to create high-quality printing of statements, short-run books, corporate documentation, manuals and direct mail. Kodak designs and manufactures products for flexography printing. Its Flexcel line of flexo printing systems allow label printers to produce their own digital plates for customized flexo printing and flexible printed packaging. The company currently has strategic relationships with worldwide touch-panel sensor leaders, such as the partnerships
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Early American editions of The Hobbit


States. Houghton Mifflin did not set their own type; rather they printed sheets for the first edition from plates etched from a photo-enlargement of the Allen & Unwin first edition. For the second edition they imported sheets directly from A&U. However, they bound their own volumes, usually distinctly from their British counterparts. The American versions differed from the British in one respect crucial to the collectibles market: beyond the first printing, most of Houghton Mifflin's impressions did not identify which printing run they came out of or even a
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Google Photos


recipient "can join to add their own photos and videos, and also get notifications when new pics are added". Users can also save photos and videos from shared albums to add them to their own, private collection. Unlike the native Photos service within IOS, Google Photos permits full resolution sharing across Android and IOS platforms and between the two. In June 2016, Google updated Photos to include automatically generated albums. After an event or trip, Photos will group the best photos together and suggest creating an album with them
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Photo-book


A photo book or photobook is a book in which photographs make a significant contribution to the overall content. A photo book is related to and also often used as a coffee table book. Early photo-books are characterized by their use of photographic printing as part of their reprographic technology. Photographic prints were tipped-in rather than printed directly onto the same paper stock used for letterpress printed text. Many early titles were printed in very small editions and were released as partworks to a network of well-informed and privileged readers
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Dadasaheb Phalke


press at Lonavla under the name of "Phalke Engraving and Printing Works" with R. G. Bhandarkar as a partner. The press majorly worked for making photo-litho transfers for Ravi Verma Press, owned by painter Raja Ravi Varma. Later, it also started the work of halftone blockmaking and printing and tri-colour printing. With the growing business, the press was shifted to Dadar, Mumbai. Later in 1908, Purushottam Mavji replaced Bhandarkar as a partner and the press was renamed as "Laxmi Art Printing Works".
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Photo District News


loft spaces along lower Fifth Avenue (the "Photo District"). "PDN" is owned by Emerald Expositions and headquartered in New York. The first issue (May 1980) cost $800 to print and carried $2,000 in advertising, yielding a tidy profit. It was distributed free in stores in the Photo District. "PDN" was an instant success. In time professional photographers, coming to Manhattan on assignment from elsewhere in the country picked up a copy and requested a subscription (initially $6 per year
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Fracture (company)


Fracture is an Internet-based photo finishing service. Fracture's main service is printing photos directly onto glass. The company is based in Gainesville, Florida. A startup company in North Central Florida, Fracture was founded by two graduates of The University of Florida, Alex Theodore and Abhi Lokesh. They began selling their product in December 2009. Theodore and Lokesh raised $1.5 million in funding from outside investors, including Tamiami Angel Fund I in 2012. In 2011, after a Groupon promotion, sales increased significantly, and the
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Kodak Gallery


winner in a review of online photo service web sites. Uploading photos to Kodak Gallery was free, but unless purchases (e.g., of prints) were made on the site, the pictures were only stored for 90 days and then deleted. The site's terms of service specified that "To maintain free storage, you need to meet the following minimum purchase requirement within 90 days of first uploading images, and then every 12 months thereafter ... If you do not purchase the required amount as set forth above from us for a
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Flax Art Supply Stores


catalog that utilized Danziger's 'F'. The art supply catalog averaged 150 pages and featured thousands of items. More than 60 years later, the different Flax locations still use the original logo, though with some variations. The Flax stores remain independently operated. Each has its own unique product assortment. Collectively, the available range includes paint, paper, drawing materials, drafting supplies, fine pens and writing paper, custom printing services, desk accessories, books, home decor items, photo albums, sketchbooks and journals,
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Florence Owens Thompson


a dumpster at the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. After the death of Hendrie and his wife, their daughter, Marian Tankersley, rediscovered the photos while emptying her parents' San Jose home. In October 2005, an anonymous buyer paid $296,000 at Sotheby's for the 32 rediscovered Lange photos—nearly six times their pre-bid estimate. In 1998, the retouched photo of "Migrant Mother" became a 32-cent U.S. Postal Service stamp in the 1930s portion of the Celebrate the Century series. The stamp printing was unusual
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Flickr


images have been used without permission," the BBC reported in 2019, noting "Flickr Pro subscribers will be able to monitor up to 1,000 images and send automated copyright claims to people or companies that use their photos." In November 2014, Flickr announced that it would sell wall-sized prints of photos from the service that are licensed under Creative Commons licenses allowing commercial use. Although its use of the photos in this manner is legal and allowed under the licenses, Flickr was criticized by users for what they perceived to
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Jesus of Cool


Lowe, with the UK and US versions featuring a slightly different selection of photos. On both covers, the phrase "PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE" is spelled out in small letters across the photos. "PURE" was small yellow print in the top left photo, "POP" was small red print in the top middle, "FOR" was small blue print in the top right, "NOW" was small blue print bottom left, "PEO" was small yellow print in the bottom middle and "PLE
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Webshots


Webshots is a photo wallpaper and screensaver service owned and operated by Threefold Photos. It was also a photo sharing service from 1999 to 2012. Webshots was created in 1995 by Auralis, Inc. in San Diego, California. It was initially a sports oriented screen saver sold at retail for desktop computers. Founders Andrew Laakmann, Danna Laakmann, Nick Wilder, and Narendra Rocherolle migrated the desktop software to the Web and became one of the earliest instances of photo sharing found online. The Webshots Community launched in 1999 as the first photo
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Hippolyte Bayard


them for self-portraits), street scenes, urban landscapes, architectural photos, and portraits. He photographed prominent figures and an ordinary worker. He also advocated combination printing and was one of the founders of a photo society. While working as a civil servant, Bayard experimented with photography. He developed his own method of producing photos called the direct positive process. It involved exposing silver chloride paper to light, which turned the paper completely black. It was then soaked in potassium iodide before being exposed in a camera.
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Colegio de San Juan de Letran


instructional media resources for circulation. Services include lending of instructional materials, rendering the execution of art work, photo coverage and black-and-white photo developing and printing. For broadcast media facilities, the TV production studio, radio production and studio post-production. Services offered are audio and video production and editing, video coverage, etc. Several facilities are the Apple Mac-Lab Editing Suite, TV Studio, Radio Mini Station and many more. The library is divided into sections: The St. Thomas Building has a
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Kodak


storage systems (optical, tape, and disk), printers, inkjet printing presses, microfilm/microfiche equipment, photograph kiosks, and photocopiers, for which it despatches technicians who make repairs in the field. Kodak markets Picture CDs and other photo products such as calendars, photo books and photo enlargements through retail partners such as CVS, Walmart and Target and through its Kodak Gallery online service, formerly known as Ofoto. On January 13, 2004, Kodak announced it would stop marketing traditional still film cameras (excluding disposable cameras
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Picaboo


Picaboo is a web-based image self-publishing and printing service based in Hanover, New Hampshire. Customers can upload their digital photos through Picaboo's in-browser application and create a variety of personalized photo products. Picaboo was founded in 2002 in Palo Alto, California by Babson College classmates, Howard Field and Kevin McCurdy. Series-A funding was secured from Kleiner Perkins and Softbank. The first version of its photo editor was launched in 2005. Originally available as a downloadable desktop application, Picaboo has since retired its
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Features new to Windows Vista


profiles embedded in images are also supported. The "Photo Print Wizard" has been improved to offer a lot of customizability. An upgraded version of this, Windows Live Photo Gallery allows you to upload and share photos and videos online as part of Windows Live services. Windows Movie Maker supports smooth Direct3D-based effects and transitions, editing and outputting HD video, importing recorded DVR-MS format videos, as well as burning the output movie on a CD. In Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions, it can import
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