Day: May 23, 2011

Monday Highlight: A {Free} Shutterfly Photobook

I’ve got a rather different product that I want to highlight today. It’s all about photobooks by Shutterfly. However, the feature I want to share with you today is a free function that Shutterfly offers – the option to share your photobooks with friends and other people. And as I said, it’s all for free. If you are looking for a simple way to share your scrap pages with others online, this might be the solution. Basically, all you need to do is, sign up for your own account with shutterfly (they don’t require much information, just your name, email address and a password, of course), upload your images to your shutterfly account, and then create a photobook using the available options. It’s very easy, and with little time you can figure it out on your own. The trick is, instead of ordering the photobook to be printed (which of course will cost its price), you simply pick their share options, get the direct link to share in emails, ect., or they even provide the …

So, I got up this morning …

… only to realize that this was probably one of the worst mornings I’ve woken up to in a long while. I had a rude awakening, not just so to speak, but in the literal sense of the meaning. That rude awakening was a knock on my door, announcing a most unpleasant affair: “Your room is flooding!” Yep, and that’s exactly what was happening. By the time I reached my front door, water was streaming in from underneath, and the first thing that crossed my mind was: I wonder when this is going to happen to me! See, it wasn’t my apartment that actually was having the problem (though I got my share of water, too)! But it was the second apartment on our floor to get flooded within two months. A pipe had broken in my next door neighbor’s bathroom, and now the water was flooding the hall, my apartment, other people’s apartments, and of course stood several inches deep in my next-door neighbor’s apartment. So, who am I to complain? Just equipped myself …