Canada Issue 126

Out of the Box

Smilebox

Running businesses, remembering emails…the list goes on. The life of your hard drive—it’s a big job for one little box.

Especially when it come to looking after all those family pictures—viewed quickly and then stored away in the data dungeon for nobody to see. It has made us sad for a long time until we found Smilebox.

Smilebox is a very cool service that allows you to create attractive personalized scrapbooks, slideshows, postcards and greeting cards using your very own photographs. Think the best of digital scrapbooking and on-line greeting cards all rolled into one, with your choice of photos, text, background music and background designs. A neat little package that can be sent to friends and family online (for about $2) with hundreds of designs to cover every photo opportunity—from new home to first steps to back to school.

The best part? It’s so darn easy to use, even the biggest digiphobe in your family can work it out. Another bonus? The recipients click on a link to view your creations so no more clogging up inboxes with photo attachments. (You know who you are!)

Smilebox was developed by a crack team of software wizards to make ‘creative messaging and personal expression’ accessible to every mom—no coding required! After a quick download from www.smilebox.com, Smilebox finds your photos wherever they are on your hard drive (even if you don’t know) and starts your creative juices by presenting them to you with beautiful design templates. Just like magic (or some very impressive technology).

Click here to see one of our own Smileboxes and imagine one filled with your own photos winging its way through cyberspace—then picture the smiles.

Face facts—not all of us are going to get around to organizing those photos and making scrapbooks, and that’s OK, really. But there’s no excuse anymore not to share your happy moments with the ones you love. Don’t save it for the holidays—now you can share the ‘Sunday morning kids in jammies’ too, ‘cuz it’s so easy.

Take your precious family pictures out of that box (it’s called a hard drive) and send them to someone else’s for a smile. It really works.

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED… IT’S FREE

You might also like:

Jackcards.com and Posterjack.ca

First published 2006.10.17