For those of you that post pictures to your blog when traveling. How do you resize your photos? Im not bringing my laptop, so Im not sure what to use. Im assuming the cafe's wont let you download the free software to do this??

Thanks.

Use the paint tool that's installed on all windows machines. From the Start Menu select Accessories and then Paint.

To resize the image, select Stretch/Skew from the Image menu.

I upload my pictures to flickr, and from flickr, I get a resized photo

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I'm assuming the cafes wont let you download the free software to do this??

Depends on the cafe. Generally chain cafes won't, but while we were travelling, I found most (probably 80% or so) of the internet cafes we used allowed programs to be installed. Seemed like it depended on the country, too. Some countries (Egypt comes to mind) almost all the cafes protected their computers, whereas in some other countries, I don't think I encountered any restrictions at all.

But, personally, I also just upload the full sized image to Flickr and then use the medium sized image that it produces on my blog. That way I have a backup of my photos, too, though it can be time consuming in countries with slower connections.

Thanks,
I think Im going to try Flickr

You can try picture tray too

http://www.picturetray.com/

It doesn't need an install so you should be ok just downloading and running almost anywhere...

Microsoft makes a great barebones image resizer tool that works flawlessly with Windows XP. Everyone should have it installed.

Okay. So I buy a Canon Powershot 710 IS, unpack it and start to try and learn about the new-to-me world of digital photography. I will need this for my imminent RTW. I'm following along and find that -- UH OH! -- the only way to directly upload photos is if the computer has Windows XP or Max OS X or higher. Otherwise one has to download their proprietary software. Dang! I sort of kind of doubt that the I-net cafes where I'm going won't have the latest, greatest operating systems.

Anyone else deal with this issue?

Thanks.

Doesn't that camera have a memory card?

I never plug my camera into the computer, I use an SD card reader. The images are stored in standard jpeg format.

If I have to re-size (where Flickr is slow), I use picture tray.

[sheepishly she asks: where in the computer do you put that teeny tiny card?]

You need a card reader. They're not that expensive, and then they just plug into a USB port, similar to a memory stick. USB has been standard for long enough now that you're really back of beyond if the computer doesn't have that.

Thanks, whale and 2! Who knew?!?

About the USB ports: a poster somewhere along the way said the opposite: that USB ports are actually not that common. This was distressing as I purchased a couple of memory sticks with an encryption program so that I can conduct my financial business on my RTW. I'll look deeper.

Thanks again.

Actually, its true that there are still some ancient computers around in internet cafés without USB ports. I always ask, usually there are one or two that have them, even if you have to turn the thing around to get at them.

Yes to what my esteemed colleague said above, with the minor objection of the term "ancient". Such a term implies that I am Paleozoic, and I'm not, dammit.