12 reasons to consider using the ZooFoo web-based photo manager.
1. Break the computer ball and chain
ZooFoo runs in a web browser, so you can use it wherever you are. But unlike most web sites, you can drag-and-drop photos and photo albums, zoom in and out, and edit photos within your browser. In addition, managing your photos via the web has tremendous advantages: you can add photos directly from your phone, you can forward emails to your ZooFoo account and have the photos added automatically, and you can publish albums on the web with just one click. Furthermore, by just drag-and-dropping a photo to your list of family & friends, you share a high-resolution image with them. No more email hassle.
2. Beautiful display of photos. No ads.
Your photos are precious. Why would you want your albums decorated with ads or links promoting features of ZooFoo itself? Do you really want an insurance ad next to your child's birthday party photo? Free of this, your albums contain only your photos, and you can switch the album layout and publish it with one click. In addition, when someone is viewing your photos online, ZooFoo automatically sizes your photo to be as large as possible in their web browser.
3. Stay organized
ZooFoo is the only photo manager available today that can preserve the organization of your photos on your local machine when it transfers them to the web. As your photo collection grows, you need tools to organize it, and using ZooFoo, you can do this wherever you are (even at work, under the careful supervision of your boss). In addition, ZooFoo Backup preserves your organization when you make a backup of your account. A web-based photo manager helps you stay organized in a world of proliferating SLR, point-and-shoot, and phone cameras.
4. Share easily
Stop wresting with email to share photos, especially those large files that email sends to spam or never delivers. Just add your family & friends to your ZooFoo service, and drag-and-drop photos to share with them. They'll be notified via email that they have a new photo waiting. This creates an interlaced photo album of the best photos from your close family & friends. If you like a photo someone else added to your Family & Friends, just drag-and-drop it to your library to save it. A great way to keep people close to you up to date.
5. Have a copy on a server, for safety
Every day, thousands of people lose their photos because their hard disk breaks or their computer is stolen and they have not run a backup. ZooFoo photos are stored on Amazon.com's million-plus server data center, which is backed up "six ways to Sunday," as one of our engineers technically described it. You are a lot safer storing your photos on our centralized server, and running ZooFoo Backup if you want a local copy.
6. Make a web browser behave like a computer
When you are organizing or sharing your photos, you want the ability to drag-and-drop in a web browser, or select multiple photos, or right-click. With the ZooFoo Manager, which runs in a web browser, you can do this. It makes the management process simple and fast for you.
7. Loading photos to the web
For both Windows and Mac, we built ZooFoo Photo Loaders that will quickly load photos to your web account from a camera, flash disk, or hard disk. The Loaders automatically can scale down the size of huge photos, as many cameras are shooting photos today that are unreasonably large. The Windows Loader has many editing features built in, including delete (which is needed in digital photography); the Mac Loader has similar features and interfaces with iPhoto. Both Loaders have custom ZooFoo self-healing technology, which allows them to restart from where they left off if a computer goes to sleep or your Internet connection dies in the middle of a large photo load, saving you hours of time and frustration.
8. Get your files back. Own your photos.
We never use your photos to lock you into our service. If at any time you want to leave, you may run ZooFoo Backup to make a local copy of your photos in the highest resolution we have them saved. This will preserve your photo titles, descriptions, tags, and dates. It will also preserve the organizational structure you created.
9. ZooFoo supports all computer and phone platforms
Whether it is Mac, PC, iPhone, Android, or Blackberry, ZooFoo supports all platforms. We are not trying to use a photo service to advance another platform - we have no other agenda. Because your family and friends may be running different technology than you, this helps when you share photos with them.
10. Be private or public
Photo albums can be made public or private. If they are private, the only people who can see them are those to whom you send a link. Even search engines cannot view the private albums.
11. Add photos to your blog or webpage
You can use ZooFoo to host the photos for your blog or webpage, and save yourself a lot of time in photo editors resizing photos (ZooFoo makes 3 sizes for you automatically). You can even email ZooFoo a photo and a few seconds later it will email back the embed code for you to use. For example, see the photos in the Veganman blog or these pear chocolate truffles at Dan's Chocolates - the photos are served from ZooFoo.
12. We focus on you
ZooFoo is a small, quickly growing company focused on building amazing web-based photography tools. Because we charge for the service, we have a business that is financially stable, so we are not going away. And we are not a division of a big corporation, viewed as ancillary to their main product. And if you contact us, we'll respond, and not with a form letter.
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