When it comes to sharing photos, KoffeePhoto or Facebook are some of the options.

Why having to choose? Among others, Facebook is great to manage connections and share photos. KoffeePhoto goes beyond when it comes to manage and backup your whole photo library. Thus KoffeePhoto provides for sharing and retrieving your original photos if needed. So why not use the best of both worlds?

Our recently launched revision added a Facebook based photo sharing function. This new feature provides for sharing a single photo or a whole album by sending a message to designated Facebook friends or by posting a message to your Facebook profile. It also provides for optionally including a preview. While you can edit all information, the caption and description of the shared photo or album are automatically included. Obviously a link to the designated web page is included for full browsing.

You can’t wait? Go to your KoffeePhoto Web Space, log in, select the photo or album you want to share and click on the Share button. The few steps are rather self-explanatory. You obviously need a Facebook account.

As always, feedback is welcome.

A couple of days ago, KoffeeWare launched KoffeePhoto Premium,a dedicated online photo backup solution.

Advantages of online backup over CD/DVD based backup are numerous. A quick reminder, online backup is:

• (obviously) remote (in case of fire or theft, what is the need of a backup if it sits close to the computer?),
• reliable (how sure can you be to able to read your CD based backup when needed which is usually after a couple of years?),
• dependable (are you sure to find your backup CDs when needed which is usually after a couple of years),
• and inexpensive (consider the cost of your CDs, CD burner and the time spent backuping data).

Last but not the least, automated online backup helps fighting against procrastination.

But why using a photo dedicated online backup solution?

Numerous online storage and backup solutions exist, some are dedicated to photo storage, others provide general purpose storage. At KoffeeWare, we think that online storage benefits from being application specific. In fact, storage is only part of the story.

KoffeePhoto handles the whole photo process, from the camera to sharing including organizing and backuping. More, using KoffeePhoto, you may add pictures to your account without even running your own computer. Storing and backuping being completely embedded into the system, KoffeePhoto combines great ease of use and peace of mind.

Last but not the least, KoffeePhoto includes a one-click photo restoration features. Simply log in and all pictures are automatically retrieved.

Although versatile, swiss-knife-like solutions look good, application specific solutions always fulfill their mission better and easier.

Nowadays, photo sharing is all around and provides a great and new approach to sharing moments of life. Far easier than sharing printed photos with remote members of the family or organizing a slideshow event in the dark with friends on a cold winter evening (when was the last you did this?).

But what about keeping the pictures of your loved ones for later, much later viewing? Wouldn’t it great to still be able to watch pictures of your childhood or of your parents’ childhood? No doubt.

Digital life is great but when it comes to make sure it resists time, specific measures need to be taken. Every 15 seconds a hard drive crashes. Your digital photos are a compilation of your life: weddings, babies, friends, parties, holidays… What do you do to preserve your photos? Of course, you can add external hard drives or you can burn CDs/DVDs, but all these solutions are time consuming, cost quite a lot when considering long term and, in the end, are you really sure that data will still be readable the day you want to access it? Did you try reading a writable CD after a couple of years? After having moved a couple of times, do you only know where the backup CDs are?

One solution addresses all these issues, online backup.

KoffeePhoto introduces KoffeePhoto Premium which includes unlimited online backup of your pictures. KoffeePhoto Premium provides you the serenity of fully automated backup and restoration of all your digital picture files. When a data loss happens, KoffeePhoto Premium will restore your whole photo library with a single click, no hassle. Preserve your photos for life for only 39,99 € a year ($59,99)! Your high resolution pictures always remain available.

For increased reliability, KoffeePhoto’s online photo backup solution is based on a multiple sites’ distributed storage.

Each photo album created using KoffeePhoto is also automatically uploaded to KoffeePhoto servers, for online photo browsing and sharing purposes. KoffeePhoto automatically synchronizes content of your albums on multiple computers as your fellows add your albums to their photo library.

In case of loss of data, KoffeePhoto is capable of restoring your whole photo library using your sharing fellows as backup/restoration endpoints. Just reinstall KoffeePhoto and log in with your username and password, KoffeePhoto takes care of everything else. Your high resolution files will be retrieved from your sharing fellows’ computers.

Two guidelines to improve your backup level:

1. Share your albums. Every friend who adds your albums to his photo library also serves as a backup point for you.
2. If you own several computers, use your KoffeePhoto account on all of them. They will all keep in sync and serve as backup point one for the other.

Don’t wait to lose your photo library to take action.

Related links:

• Photo backup using KoffeePhoto