Freebies
One thing that no one can claim is that they weren’t given tons of free stuff at BlogHer. One of the freebies I received is a subscription to SmileBox.
I am not a scrapbooker. I tried once and when all the shapes didn’t come out square I cried and started over.
So, SmileBox … it’s fun. They have over 1000 themes (backgrounds?) to choose from; they have slideshows, postcards, greeting cards and scrapbook pages. I chose a very basic postcard called “montage” which support 5, 10 or 15 photos. Since I wasn’t blogging when Elliot was a baby, he’s my test subject (ah, isn’t he cute?).
Some of the things I like: it’s an application that runs locally, so it’s faster to make stuff. I like that I can find themes by how many pictures I have or by a mood/season/occasion. I don’t like the navigation. It doesn’t conform to standard windows operations (I hate that I put standard and windows in the same sentence). But truth be told, we expect thing to operate a certain way because that’s how the MAN does it. Maybe Mac users wouldn’t find it so disorienting.
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full disclosure: the smilebox people don’t know me from eve, so I did this on my own – but maybe you’re a digital scrapbooker and want to try something new? Or, you just want to be like me. Either way – it’s fun to try. Also, I don’t know the difference between what I have and what’s available free on the site.
