What are the odds you??™ll ever need one of these programs? Pretty low, I suspect. But if you
do find yourself with a dead memory card or lost pictures, this might be worth a try.
Travel with Pictures
It??™s one thing to travel with a memory card or two and a digital camera??”it??™s quite another thing
to have so many memory cards that your pockets jangle when you walk. But if you??™re traveling
for a while, such as on a vacation trip, how can you have enough memory space to take all the
pictures you need without running out of room? Instead of taking a half-dozen 1GB memory
cards, I have a better solution: take a storage device that you can use to transfer your pictures to,
and then erase your card and start anew.
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Several gadgets on the market store your digital images while you??™re on the road. These
devices have memory slots to accept images from your memory cards and securely store your
images until you can get home and transfer the data to your PC. Here are some you might want
to consider:
?– Photo Safe (www.digitalfoci.com) This gadget is available in a couple of sizes, but
the 40GB version costs $139. It??™s a portable hard drive with the ability to read common
memory card formats.
?– Portable Digital Image Backup (www.
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