The short video about a toothy baby, Charlie, who bites his brother, has been viewed on YouTube over twelve million times. The video may make you chuckle, but if you were Charlie's parents, would you be concerned that the whole world knows about your 2 children by face?

I'll admit that I put my children,nieces, nephews on YouTube all the time. Am I worried? No. Why? Because, according to the trusty Wikipedia, there are almost 80 million videos available for viewing on YouTube. What are the chances that my baby son's music video is going to become as famous as Charlie? I'm happy enough if it even gets viewed by my friends or family.

However, if you are still concerned about Read more

Do you have a child applying for a sports scholarship? Due to tighter budgets, coaches are not able to watch promising young athletes play in person and are relying more and more on the sports scholarship video. In the competitive world of college and professional sports, you have to take advantage of every opportunity. Give him or her that advantage with a special sports scholarship Video.

What is a sports scholarship video?

A scholarship video is designed to promote your athletic ability to the coaching staff of the college or university you hope to attain a scholarship. For example, Read more

Valentine's Day electronic cards are getting too corny. Do you open the ones you get? Even when I do, it doesn't feel very personal. For this Valentine's Day, try sending your special message with Sketchcast.com. Sketchcast is a free internet sketching application that lets you get creative and romantic with a pen, an eraser, and typed-text. Best of all, it's in your hand-writing. Now, that's personal.

I did three Valentine's Day sketchcast to start off your creative juices flowing.

This first one, is a simple I love You. But I dare say your sweetheart has not received it quite this way. Read more

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When I make a Photobook gift, I'm not so shameless as to ask the recipient, "Do you like it? Is it plain knock-out gorgeous?" Instead I slyly ask, "Which one is your favorite page?" And I occassionally get the right answer, "I love every page of it!"

When I make a Photobook for someone, the message from my heart is: Hi there, I'm so glad you are in my life. Read more

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Animoto calls it “The end of slideshows”. This nascent website - just a few months old - takes your photos, your music selection, and wham, creates a pretty hot production that has the energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer in 3 easy steps:

• Step 1: Choose your images. You can upload from your PC, or if your photos are on one of the online photo hosting site, just tell it where to find it.
• Step 2: Choose your music. They have a nice collection of tunes to choose from, or you can upload from your computer.
• Step3: Then, the Animoto application painstakingly analyses your photos and your music, and Wham, you get a unique video production that’s totally customized to every nuances to your music.

Click here to watch a video tutorial on how to create an Animoto video.

Now you can email it to friends, or press the remix button and see what you get this time. No two videos are alike, you get a unique video creation every time.

Animoto offers 2 levels: Short videos (under 30 seconds) are FREE. Full-length video cost $30 a year. I’m pretty happy with the 30-second videos (free shorts, they call it), so I’m staying with FREE for now.

Below I use the same photos to create 2 slide shows, one using www.Animoto.com and the one following using www.Slide.com. Which one is more your style?

The slide show below is by another popular free web slide show maker, www.slide.com :

So which slide show is your style? Drop a comment below. Either way, your photos would be much happier dancing in a music slide show than being stashed away in your hard drive.