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Stay Connected@your library
Technology & Computers for Senior Techies
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Issue 4
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Greetings!
Who doesn't like to get the latest pictures in the
mail? The Yahoo!Photos service makes sending and
recieiving photos via email very easy. You
upload your digital pictures from
your camera, flash drive, or other digital source.
Once the pictures are on Yahoo!Photos, you can
organize them into albums, send them, print them,
and more.
Clicking on blue words (called
hypertext) anywhere on this page
will take you to a Web site of interest to Senior
Techies.
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Yahoo!Photos
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Sharing Your Pictures
Let's say you were the designated photographer at
your recent family reunion-with your new digital
camera. Cool! But how do you share those pictures of
the newest grandchild and her grandmother with all
who were there? Using your Yahoo!Photos account,
you can insert up to 300 pictures within an e-mail
message without attaching each picture individually.
This is a great way to send photos; there are no
slow-loading, memory-consuming attachments.
Upload your pictures to your Yahoo!Photos
account following the instructions. This does take time,
but you need only do it once and then you can organize and
re-organize the photos into online photo albums.
Even if you never email 300
pictures at a time, organizing your pictures into
albums helps you and your recipients easily find the
pictures they want to view. Consider creating albums
by family group, by age group, by event, by season,
or any other
topic you choose. This is less overwhelming
for the recipient than getting a 300-picture album
called Family Reunion 2006. Your recipients will thank you!
The photos stay online for 90 days. Viewers have
the option of printing your photos on their
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Yahoo!Photo Albums
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Receiving Photos
If you receive photos from family and friends
attached to email sent to your Yahoo! Mail address,
you can store those photos in an album on your
Yahoo!Photos account. Open the message. The
photo will appear as an
attachment
at the bottom of the email message.
Click on Save to Yahoo!Photos and it will appear
in an album called Mail Attachment.
If there are multiple pictures attached, you can
move them one at a time or click Save all to Yahoo!
Photos.
As with any email, only open invitations to view
photos on Yahoo!Photos from people you know. Email
scammers have been known to use false Yahoo!
Log-In screens to collect usernames and passwords.
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Just for Fun
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Mystery Links
Every issue of Stay Connected@your library has
Mystery Links. These links vary widely and may or
may not be related to the topic of this newsletter
issue. We can guarantee that you will find something
of interest in each link, so click on the Mystery Links
in the sidebar. Mystery Link 1 is really just for
fun;
not much practical use. Type any word or phrase in
the white box and click Spell.
Try clicking the blue hyperlinks on each page or
look
at the list of links most Web sites include for more
exploration. If you find links of interest, email them to
us at the address below.
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These links are provided for information only;
inclusion in the
newsletter is not a recommendation or endorsement.
Some
sites may contain advertising. These links were
current as of
Februrary 2006.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a
Federal agency
that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of
learning,
and State Library Services & School Technology, the
Minnesota
State Library Agency, support Senior Techies II
project at
SELCO/SELS under the provisions of the Library
Services and
Technology Act (LSTA).
We hope you enjoy the newsletter. Let us know!
Ann Walker Smalley & Amy Larson
Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
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