Sharon is a Busy Mom
This is Sharon. She's a mom, a photographer and a blogger. She really gets technology and uses it to help her kids be creative too. A few years ago she got her kids a digital video camera. They call it the kid-cam. Ever since, they've been making video art as a family. The kids make movies about their unique experiences—bugs in the garden, Smartie cookies, the blanket fort. Sharon says it's one way they'll remember their childhoods.
They don't store kid-cam video on their PC (which could crash) or digital tapes (that might get lost). Sharon downloads the kid-cam videos from the camera, edits the "keepers" and drops them in the PutPlace folder on her PC where they are automatically backed-up, itemized and categorized online. PutPlace’s secure online back-up means Sharon never has to worry about losing those precious memories.
"PutPlace is our digital scrapbook. I can find and share the kids videos whenever I want. Plus, I know I've got their unique experiences captured for life."
Julie Runs a Small Business
Julie runs a small communications firm. Depending on the day, she's a marketing expert, administrator, HR director, maintenance woman, the list goes on. She wears lots of hats, but, unfortunately, IT manager isn't one of them. Last year, her laptop gave up the ghost along with all of her files—client work, business admin, contractor information, everything. She'd backed up her laptop a few months earlier to seven CDs, but all the work from the last quarter was trashed.
"Instead of worrying about backing up myself, which I clearly was terrible at doing, I now let PutPlace automatically do it for me. I'm so busy running my business, I know file back-up will get pushed aside. I don't want that to happen again. Not when I'm dealing with important files."
Julie also uses PutPlace as file repository so she doesn't have to take her laptop with her everywhere she goes. If she needs to access a file on the road, she can grab a copy from her PutPlace account no matter where she is.
Michael Takes Too Many Photos
Two years out of college, Michael finally has the cash to replace the aging laptop that carried him through school. He now has two laptops, a fancy digital camera and a camera phone. He's got four years of precious college photos on his laptop, and he's also uploaded his favorites to his Flickr account.
"I seriously needed a file audit on all my stuff. I used PutPlace to find all the photos on all my devices, and managed to assemble a complete set of photos to move to my new computer. Plus, PutPlace automatically backs up all my photos to Amazon's storage facility."
Michael's freed himself from the worries of losing priceless memories to hard drive failures or just plain human error. That’s not all. He’s decided to post his photos on both Flickr and SmugMug. No problem. PutPlace can move all his Flickr ‘favourites’ to SmugMug in a single mouse click. Next stop—wedding photos!
