Last month in the post Stop Sending Me Your Photo , I recommended Kodak Gallery for storing your photos online and photo printing. One of our readers, Rastin, favors Flickr for online photo storage. So I thought that I would go more into depth as to why I recommend Kodak Gallery and also compare Kodak to Flickr.

Big Dogs

Kodak is an international company with a long history and good reputation. It is not likely that Kodak will go out of business any time soon and taking your photos with them. There have been some photo hosting companies that have shut down without any warning.

Flickr is now owned by Yahoo. Yahoo is also a large company that is a major player on the Internet. Yahoo like Kodak will probably not go anywhere. Those that had photos on Yahoo’s site did have warning to move photos to Flickr before Yahoo shut down their photo hosting. Even with the warning, there was some inconvenience.

What’s the Diff?

Both Kodak Gallery and Flickr have easy-to-use web sites. Although Flickr seems to have more photo layout options than Kodak, they both have the same features such as adding photo titles, tags or keywords, and sorting order.

Kodak Gallery has more editing options than Flickr. With Flickr you can rotate images, but with Kodak you can also remove red eye, crop, and “instant fix” your photos.

Nothing is Free

Kodak is free to use with unlimited storage space and no limit on the uploading photos. Kodak requires at least one purchase every 12 months to keep your account active. There is no minimum purchase to stay active, you can purchase just one print every 12 months.

Flickr has a free and a Pro account. The free account has unlimited storage space but there is a 100mb per month upload limit. The Pro account has unlimited storage and uploading. The Pro account is $24.95 per year.

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Reader Question: How can I fix a corrupt pst file?

Microsoft Outlook saves your messages, calendars, archives, and other items in files with .pst extensions. These files can only be opened and used with Outlook.

Sometimes these files can become corrupt causing errors or can even become completely unreadable.

Usually the problem will become know when Outlook is opened and an error message will appear like this on:

Outlook will open once the error message is acknowledged and Outlook will operate normally. But once Outlook is started again, the message will usually reappear.

There is an easy procedure to fix corrupted .pst files and it only takes a few minutes.

Here are the steps:

Note: backup any .pst files before going further. Do not use SCANPST.EXE on any file that is not backed up.

Run SCANPST.EXE on the .pst file that is corrupt.

Navigate to the SCANPST.EXE file using Windows Explorer. On my computer, the file is loacted at: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\SCANPST.EXE.

Double click the SCANPST.EXE icon and the you should see the window below. Click Browse.

Navigate to and select the .pst file that needs scanned.

Once you have selected the .pst file you will see the window below. Click Start.

If your .pst file is corrupt, you will see a window like the one below. Click Repair.

Once the scan and repair process is complete, you will receive a Repair complete message.

Now just repeat the process for any other .pst files that need scanned.

This may fix any corrupt error messages due to corrupt .pst files.

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