audio cd's are for music or recording your voice.

mel, many places you can email the pictures then have them printed out. check out cvs online. when they are done, you pick them up at the store.

http://cvs.pnimedia.com/home.aspx

Curious -

it was my understanding that all cds are the same - but manufacturers label some "audio cds" to charge more $$ for them...

If your cd writer gives you a message that an audio cd is in the drive, I am pretty sure it means the cd is formatted and has music on it and can't be written to.

please correct me if i'm wrong....

Jean

they are formated different. i found that out when i was trying to copy a news story from tv for gaykir. i tried both the audio and the data cd's ( both were new) and had to finally get a dvd-r.

then i tried to use the dvd-r's ( new, i bought a whole stack ) to record lil'monkey's audition music and that wouldn't work.

i'm sure someone...moi? while chime in.

please correct me if i'm wrong....

Jean. I have no idea if you are wrong or right.

I just went to yahoo and looked up Flash Drive.

Holy cow, I'm getting an education. I said that CD RW are obsolete. It said that there are different kinds of flash drives.

It said that there is something called a solid state flash drive.

All I want is to copy some pics to SOMETHING, go to the Kodak store and print it out. But when I did go to the Kodak store the other day and I asked them "How much is it per photo to have it printed out?" he said "$1.95 per picture".

I might as well buy some more cartridges for my printer and do it myself.

My god, the stuff I have yet to learn about flash drives, and cd rw's and this and that.

I'll be 80 and STILL LEARNING

lol

Curious.

I LOVE YOU!!!

I just went to this link (cvs) and it says if you sign up for free, you can get 50 prints for free.

Let's just check this out!!!

If this is true, I shall send heaps of blessings your way.

lol

Melody

Curious:

I registered with the CVS photo thing. I uploaded 9 photos. I created an album. Now I see things like "Shopping Cart, etc. etc.

What do I do next?

You indicated I can email the pics.

I think this might be done a different way. Since I have uploaded it to that site, and I've created an album. There must be a way to put the album in the shopping cart, and then click on SOMETHING, and then I can take a walk to my local CVS and pick up the photos?

See, this is where I get confused.

How do I make sure that my local CVS gets the information.

I know I now live in techno times but honestly, I was using a throw-a-way camera until last week, and now I've uploaded photos to a cvs thing?

I can do the photobucket and the youtube thing, but this is BRAND NEW TO ME.

Any steps I should take next? Have you done this.?

I tried to see a help menu or an information thing but all I saw was "create an album, My album, shopping cart.....

And thanks much.

God, I'm learning cvs photos now.

lol

you did the right thing. now you can pick which or all the photos you want to be printed. they will be ready at the cvs store you choose. saves a trip to the store. plus all the copying time to a cd or or thumb drive.

i hadn't done it in awhile. i used to email the pictures to the local cvs.
lil'monkey is now my techno guru.

Looks like you can view & edit also - might want to do that step before adding to cart.
I didn't make an account - just going by the tabs.

If there is editing features like sharpening, crop, lighten /darken etc - you can improve the photos if needed before you have them printed out.

everybody has been right one way or another. LOL

Mel, there are so many ways to go about it. I think it comes down to what you're comfortable with and what you'd like to do.

all suggestions are good.

my personal preferences when taking photos to a local place for instant gratification is to put it onto a USB stick (called thumb drives as Jean has mentioned).

And they are cheaper than dirt these days. Compare that with CD's

USB is convenient and you can get a 4 Gig for under 20 dollars if you buy them on sale...

a CD holds roughly 700 MB's of data (it'll say 800MB on some, but at least 100 of those are alloted)

and you can only use that one time. (Unless you get a CD-RW but I don't care for those either. LOL)

I just don't use CD's anymore. Especially the CD-R's. They can only be used ONE time and the amount of memory in a CD is just not enough for what I need these days. So I use CD-R's only to write music these days, that IS until we get I-pods(I know, I know, I know....we need to come aboard, but I kept on waiting for the NEXT generation )

on-line photo places are great if you can wait a few days and I love on-line shopping. If they start selling groceries, I would NEVER leave this house.

(If every one of my clients come on board to online video conferencing, I really will never leave this house. LOL)

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as to the music CD's and data CD's. This is what I know:

audio cd's have a hard encoded section at the beginning which tells the machine it is audio cd.

the dye is slightly different

non-audio cd's don't play in all cd players.
audio cd's are supposed to

with that said, I DO know that some programs are able to by-pass the music CD's hard endcode section and are able to let one write data onto the music CD

and....some data CD's CAN write music. But if it is played in an older CD player, it might not work.

Music CD's dye's and encoding are supposed to make it universal to the laser reading in most(if not all) CD players.

hope that helped.



PS, I do want to mention that most people just pull out thumb drives without going to "safely remove hardware" option. While 99% of the time, this might work and be OK...I would always use the safely remove hardware option because that ONE time, can lose precious datas and corrupt the whole freakin' drive....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr (or remove the drive AFTER the puter is turned off)

Didn't know about the differences between CDs - my husband (network architect and complete computer guru...) said there were no differences! I see he was wrong now.

Agree - lots of ways to share data now.

When I was transferring my files from PC to MAC it was getting harder & harder to copy to DVD as backup and storage. I kept getting weird error messages. So I finally broke down and bought a 160GB portable hard drive. I used it to transfer files, and now am using it for file backups.

thanks all for the info!