I don't recall if Google Photos did a Year In Review last year (I suppose I could look that up), but this past December I was greeted with a "here are all the photos you took in 2025" short movie.  I think this year I started naming some of the personalities in my photos (mostly my dog and my cats), so....very predictably, I ended up taking a lot of photos of my cats and dog. It's interesting

My Flickr Year In Review isn't a lot to phone home about. I am actually surprised that I had over 1800 views of my photos.  I basically use Flickr as another backup for my phone's photo roll.  Maybe next year I should spend a bit more time seeing what friends and acquaintances post on Flickr and what else exists on this platform.  I think the initial concept of a photo-based social network

Both Google Photos and Flickr got into the "year in review" trend.  I decided to include them both here because they are both photo-related.  Flickr is a bit more basic with some stats, whereas Google creates some nice videos for you.  If you've gone through and have tagged people in your photos, one of  the recap videos it creates is your most photographed people (which is

Another one bites the dust - at least for me.  In 2018, after 10 years of using Tumblr I decided to stop using this service (it's questionable how long it will be around anyway).  Initially, early in September I lost access to my account.  I had enabled 2FA (2 factor authentication) but none of the the security tokens on my 2FA application would work.  Argh...   After

As much as I liked the Nokia N8, I needed to get back to using a more modern smartphone for my day to day work.  I decided that waiting some more time for motorola (or Google) to release new flagship products would take a long time, and the few merits of the N8 wouldn't warrant waiting that long for the next android device. Symbian Belle Refresh OS So,  what did I like about the

I know, it's a bizarre statement to make! This morning I got the proofs of the photographs taken of me at last week's graduation. The last time I attended graduation to receive my MSIT degree, when I got the proofs I looked sickly! The photographers had photoshoped corrected the photos to suck a degree that my skin looked like I had been abusing skin whitening cremes for decades. Of course I opted