Linked: Instagram Has Quietly Been Asking Users to Set Up Multiple Accounts
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Linked: Instagram Has Quietly Been Asking Users to Set Up Multiple Accounts

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I know I’ve read elsewhere over the years that this was actually popular with teens, to have a “public” Instagram and then one just for friends. Even an old out-of-touch guy like me has had two Instagram accounts for years. One to just be me and have fun with, and one to focus on mental health stuff.

It seems to me like Instagram is just catching up with what we’ve been doing, and trying to juice up some numbers among the folks who hadn’t already considered doing this, right?

IFTTT No Longer An Option for Storing Photos to Google
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IFTTT No Longer An Option for Storing Photos to Google

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Got this email earlier from IFTTT (If This Then That): On Friday, March 15th, Google Photos and its associated Applets will be removed from IFTTT. Originally built in-house by our team, the Google Photos service uses the Picasa Web Albums API, which is being deprecated. We support Google’s decisions, though we know it will be a disappointment to…

Linked – Backup Strategy for Travel Photographers
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Linked – Backup Strategy for Travel Photographers

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

This article is discussing a strategy for backing up photos while traveling, and then after a trip, but the same strategy is necessary for any important data, especially if you travel for work. Important: It does not matter what system you use the goal should be the same. You need to have at least 3…

Linked – Are Location-Tagged Photos Really a Privacy Concern?
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Linked – Are Location-Tagged Photos Really a Privacy Concern?

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

In case you didn’t already know: “When you take a photo with your smartphone (or a modern digital camera), it logs the photo’s GPS coordinates and embeds it in the image metadata, or EXIF. This is how your phone is able to show a map view of your photo library.” Now the article goes into…

The NFL’s Claims About Metadata in the Ezekiel Elliott Case
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The NFL’s Claims About Metadata in the Ezekiel Elliott Case

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

I’m not going to get into whether the 6 game suspension was fair or not, or the criminal investigation that was dropped, etc. At least not here. I do, however, want to thank Deadspin for being one of the only sports sites to not just repeat verbatim what the NFL had to say about the…

Linked – Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket’s ‘ransom demand’
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Linked – Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket’s ‘ransom demand’

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

They let users embed images with free accounts for years, and then suddenly changed that policy… “But the new policy has also affected historical social media posts, blogs and forums that were reliant on Photobucket. One of those affected is Stampboards, a forum with more than 17,000 members who discuss postage stamps and share images…