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Have you ever looked at an old family photo and wondered, who is that person? Discover your family history with the San Diego Genealogical Society. Established in 1946, the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) promoted interest in genealogy and family history. The SDGS has dedicated itself by assisting its members and the public with their genealogy and family history research and providing educational and research opportunities for genealogy and family history researchers. The SDGE even maintains a genealogical research library and is passionate about collecting, preserving, and publishing San Diego genealogical and historical records. On November 12, the San Diego Genealogical Society held another seminar in conjunction with Ancestry.com at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in San Diego. DVD Your Memories contributes to the Genealogical Society in hopes of helping people of the world reconnect with lost relatives and find their roots, and helping people convert their old family media through methods such as photo scanning and slide scanning. If you’re interested in becoming a member, or learning some new information, check out their membership page.

Once your whole collection of slides has been processed either through a slide scanning, or 35mm slides to DVD order, you may often wonder what you should do with your old 35mm slides. Often times, people don’t want throw away their old media, especially important family slides or photos.

However, there are a few things you can craft out of your old, unused slides such as a unqiue window shade. With a little bit of ingenuity you can create wonderful pieces of art, even from 35mm slides!

If creating something similar, keep in mind that constant exposure to sunlight can cause fading and color loss over time of your slides, so it’s best to save your most cherished ones, and keep them in a dark, cool place, just in case something happens!

And it doesn’t end here, the options are endless really, like lamp shades made out of your old slides! So, the next time you’re thinking about finally taking care of your 35mm slide scanning, you can now have an awesome project create out of them!

For details on construction of the project, check out this link!

Natural disasters can strike at any time. Unfortunately, Japan knows first hand as they dealt with the devastating earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country early this year. Thousands of people lost their homes, possessions and even their memories. Thousands and thousands of photos, slides, negatives, film and video were lost to this disaster, erasing years of memories for some families. Some media was recovered, although heavily damaged and thousands are in need of help restoring photos.

Over the past several months, All Hands Volunteers, a Massachusetts-based, nonprofit, has done everything from repairing homes to cleaning drainage ditches along the coast. The organization has also hand-cleaned more than 55,000 photos. In some cases, professionals from around the globe have even restored images digitally.

They will actually take a damaged photo, perform high-quality photo scanning, and then restore the photo and upload it to a server that survivors wil have access to in order to retrieve their images.

Check out the full story here!

Scan your photos with your iPhone from home using a new iPhone app called Shoebox. This new app was developed for iPhone users looking for a quick and easy way to scan photos or documents from their own home, using only a phone! Once scanned it’s then very easy to upload to your favorite photo sharing sites like Facebook or Twitter.

Although you won’t get the same quality of actual dedicated flat-bed photo scanning, you can get surprisingly crisp images if you scan your photos with your iPhone, especially if you own a later version iPhone such as the 4 or 4s models. Using this free app, which will soon also be available on Android and other mobile platforms, you can scan 4×6 photos with a DPI of up to 550.

Shoebox also incorporates cropping and straightening as it auto-detects the edges of a photo. Users who already caption and tag photos taken on mobile phones, Shoebox users can do the same with these scans. The photos are then automatically uploaded to the website 1000memories, where it can be organized and shared with friends and family.

Read more about it here!

Customers often ask us what we recommend they do with their video tapes after transferring their video to DVD. Many peoples first reaction to transferring their collection of VHS tapes is to simply get rid of them one way or another. People will usually want to get rid of their tapes after transferring to DVD because they want the extra space in their home and they don’t want to have to worry about them any longer. While it may seem nice to finally free up the closet shelf, you should think hard about what you plan to do with your tapes.

At DVD Your Memories, we actually recommend that you do not get rid of your tapes, and to hold onto them as long as you possibly can, especially if they are of importance to you or your family. This is because your video tapes are usually the only original master copies, and once lost, there is no way possible to ever retrieve that data again. Although our DVDs are rated to last 100-years, this does not prevent against physical damage, such as deep scratches or breaking of the disc itself. Plus, you can always re-transfer your video from the original tape again if this ever were to happen.

When trying to load images on your Pandigital photo frame, sometimes it will tell you that your image is unsupported, even though it loads fine and appears to be the same as the rest of your images that work perfectly. Learn about how to solve the pandigital unsupported format problem below.

The “not supported format” issue is usually caused by the way the image was originally saved onto your computer. We have found that if you save your images as “progressive” it will cause your images to not be supported by the pandigital photo frame. Depending on the program you use, you’ll need to make sure that your images are saved as “baseline” or “optimized” and not saved as “progressive”.

There are some other programs that also have this feature, so you’ll need to be sure that you select the right options when it comes time to save your images. This error happens a lot when performing photo scanning or slide scanning, or doing batch processing of lots of images.

If your images are coming up as an unsupported format, you can use a nifty program called IrfanView (https://www.irfanview.com/) to determine what they were saved as.

If your unsupported images are showing up as “progressive” when viewed through IfanView, here are the steps you’ll need to do to fix it.

1. If you own Photoshop, there is an easy fix for this detailed below.

To fix your images using Photoshop, you’ll need to save them as optimized images, making sure to uncheck the box for progressive. Check the screenshot below.

2. If you don’t own Photoshop, there is an alternative you can use called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). There is a free download for GIMP at https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

To fix your images with Gimp, you’ll also need to save them as optimized images, making sure to uncheck the box for progressive. Check the screenshot below.

What looks like the world’s biggest VHS collection, is actually an artistic display presented at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2009.

The work is entitled “Life Span” and displayed in a small church on Garibaldi Street, this giant block full of VHS videotapes is the work of Australian artists Claire Healey and Sean Cordeiro. The VHS collection features a total count of 195,774 tapes with a total recording time of over 66 years! Imagine if a VHS to DVD transfer was involved!

Life Span is a physical representation of what a human being can see from its birth, to the day it dies.

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