Can't wait to share your vacation pictures with your friends and family? Photo-sharing websites allow you to download your snaps so friends across the country can view them and even order prints. Do you really want to make grandma wait until you get home to see little Billy taking his first dip in the ocean or eating his first handful of sand? Yahoo Photos, one of the most popular online photo-hosting sites is shutting down today (September 20). You still have a few hours left to order a disk of any pictures you have stored there before they disappear forever into cyber space, or you can download them for free onto your desktop. Then what? Time to transfer your pics to another photo-hosting site. Here's a rundown on the five most-popular sites:
- Kodak Easy Share Gallery (http://www.kodakgallery.com/) provides 12 months of unlimited free online storage (timed from the date of your first upload). Free storage stays in effect as long as you make a purchase once a year.
- Shutterfly (http://www.shutterfly.com/) provides free storage and allows free sharing. The site also offers tools that help you turn prints into greeting cards and postcards.
- Snapfish (http://www.snapfish.com/) offers free storage and sharing as well as special tools for using snaps on cards, etc.
- Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) provides free basic storage and sharing accounts with a charge for premium services.
- Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com/) offers a free account with storage for 10,000 images. More than enough to keep grandma happy!
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