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I’ve decided to experiment with how well Zazzle actually works in regards to selling artwork online. I’ve remastered my photograph, Early Summer’s Hanging Fuchsia, and have added this print to my Zazzle Gallery for sale.

It is available in sizes from 11×16″ to 35×52″. If anyone out there has ordered this print, or any other Zazzle print, please tell me your experiences. I’ll be using this as a metric on if I want to continue using Zazzle or not. Think of it as an experiment.

Ahh, I’ve been planning to write this one for awhile: an entire article on archival quality media. As I do professional software development as well as professional photography (what a weird combination), I need archival quality CD and DVD media to store my data on.

However, one of the hardest things to is actually find good media, or even understand why it is good media. This article focuses on the history of Compact Discs, writable CD/DVD media, and why DVD+R is superior to DVD-R. If you want to just know what media is worth buying, skip to the summary at the bottom.

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Not to be outdone by Shutterfly and Snapfish (with 25, 50, and 20 4×6s free respectively), Photoworks is giving away 25 4×6s to all new users.

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And hopefully this is the end of the severe deja-vu thats been going on.

Not to be outdone by Shutterfly (who I mentioned earlier, who is giving 15 4×6s away to new users), Snapfish is giving away 20 4×6s to all new users.

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Shutterfly is currently giving away 10 4×6″ pictures to all users (which have to be used by the 15th, that is only 2 days away), plus 15 4×6″ pictures free for all new users (which have to be used within 30 days after the new account creation).

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