Those little jump drives and their formats. . . lets talk about how to format jump drives. At our studio, we always say technology is out to get us! And one of the little recurring annoyances that comes up is related to jump drives, and in some cases older external hard drives. A case in…
Author: Mollie Bartelt
Is Twitter Right For You?
Depends upon your goals for social media Pixologie uses Facebook and Twitter extensively in our marketing efforts. However, the way we use each of these is vastly different. Most of us are aware of Facebook and how to use it, so today’s tip is going to focus on Twitter. How We Use Twitter Not necessarily…
Disk Negatives, Undeveloped Film, Oh My!
A great resource for you to help your clients with old media Occasionally, we have clients bring in old media such as undeveloped film and disk negatives. We love sending this type of work to Film Rescue International – who are the experts in working with old, old film as well as weird and unusual…
Set Up Your Own SYPD Event
Find a library, church group, senior center near you! In the photo organization world, we are coming up on our very “own” holiday!International Save Your Photos Day is set for the Fourth Saturday of September – 9/26 and the resources are all prepared for you! Click here for the SYPD Event Kit Page with all you need!…
Two Super Challenges
The Argus Automatic Slide Changer – and the 127 Slide The photo shows a magazine of slides for the Argus Slide Projector and a sample slide in the metal frame used to feed the slide projector. Well, the projector is long gone, but the slides remain in the pesky metal frames in the magazine. Next…
Don’t Underestimate Men & Their Photos
Did you know that many men care about preserving their family photos? For the past two years, the team at Pixologie has been helping consumers organize, digitize and preserve photos, slides, negatives, film and video. We have been extremely surprised at the amount of men who have come to us with heirloom scrapbooks, boxes and…
Five Ways to Do the Very Exact Same Thing
Heaven help us . . . when we are working with a client on digital photo organization, quite often, we have five different ways to teach the client how to do one task. Here’s a case in point: TASK: Copy a picture to an external hard drive One Way – Right click on the digital…
Forget New Technology, It’s All About the Old
Who wants to buy a piece of leading edge 1980s technology? Or the highest rated device for converting slides and negatives from the early 2000s? So old school, right? Maybe not. Yep, we love equipment that hasn’t been manufactured for decades in some cases. More than that, we need that old equipment. In the pursuit…