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This week's tip is for those folks out there who have digital cameras that use a removable memory card to store images on.
When it comes to transferring photos from your camera to your computer, you have many options available. You can load up various pieces of software to transfer the files for you. In fact if you have had a few picture CD's made, you probably have a program or 5 on your computer that wants to help you do just that. You know that you have to carry around the little cable, and crank up the software, and start jumping thru hoops to get the pictures transferred.
It could be that I just believe the less software the better, (that and I can never find the stupid cable) but I unload my camera in a different way. I simply pull the card out of the camera, and insert it into a USB card reader attached to my computer. This card reader will treat the contents of the memory card as if they were on a new hard drive it has just found. Windows will show this new disk as a removable disk, just as if it were a pen drive, in My Computer. You can simply double click on the removable disk in my computer, and start working with your pictures. You can delete all the useless stuff, then simply right click on any picture you wish to keep and send it to My Documents. If you wish you can copy the whole folder from the memory card to your hard drive, then just delete the contents of the card, making it ready to be returned to the camera for another load
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