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Almost as soon as I had typed the last period of my last post (regarding the benefits and wonders of Picasa), I decided to delve into the upgrade pricing of Picasa versus their inimitable pseudo-rival, Flickr. I knew about Flickr. I have friends that use Flickr. I never used the free option for Flickr because I have far too many pictures and would use my monthly allotted bandwidth very quickly, so why bother? Picasa allows upgrades, the only one of which I could entertain using was the first level upgrade, something like $25/year for 6.25 GB of storage. You’d think that would be enough for me, right? But no. I checked my photos, and we currently have almost 7 GB of photos. Crazy, I know, but it is what it is.

Then I looked at Flickr’s pricing. $25/year for unlimited uploads and unlimited storage. So, even though I liked the Picasa integration with their photo organizing software, Flickr’s plan was much more palatable. So I took the dive and bought a pro account at Flickr. I couldn’t be happier. Their online photo management tools are a breeze to use, some would almost say fun. Most of my pictures are marked private, for the eyes of only those I deem worthy, but a few of the goofier ones are available for public viewing. For the most part, I’m using my account to store all of our priceless images on a different hard drive than my own in case mine decides to randomly bite the dust (a la my transmission in my car a couple of weeks ago).

The funny thing is is that I did not want to spend money to store my pictures, even the seemingly trivial amount of $25. But, thanks to the fine folks at north carolina furniture and a few other places I’ve been posting on behalf of, I had $25 to spare. The choice was made for me. I had to acquiesce. Count me one of the millions that love Flickr.

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