You can have private videos in YouTube.  Viewers have to set up an account there, so you can enable these videos to their ID.

Thanks, but I was already aware of YouTube (as well as Google Video).  The problem with YouTube (and Google Video) is that people need to sign up to see your private videos.  I'm trying to avoid that, since many people don't want to sign up for a variety of reasons.

As the subject states, I am looking for a photo and video hosting site for family photos/videos that:

1. Does not require guests to sign up

and

2. Allows the owner to password protect an image/video

I currently have a pBase account, which I like a lot.  I can post images of the family which can be password protected.  I can then send a link to friends & family along with the password to view the images.  I like this because it doesn't require friends & family to sign up to (another) website.  Some people don't want to sign up to websites.

The problem with the pBase account is that it doesn't host video.

Any ideas?

Duplicate post.  Sorry.

You should ... save your data on professionally maintained RAID arrays, in addition to any local backups.

While many people like RAID, it has its problems as well (and in my opinion is much over-rated for home usage).  For example, if your RAID controller goes bad and you can't find a replacement then you have probably just lost all of your data.  You would be surprised how often this happens.  Trying to find a replacement RAID controller for hardware that is only a few years old can be very difficult.

Unfortunately, there have been many reports in the industry of CDs/DVDs having a lifespan of only a few years.  It is one of the reasons that I moved away from CDs/DVDs onto HDDs a few years ago.

Here is just one of those reports:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/10/73755_HNcdlifespan_1.html

Does it mean that we don't' have to report the income if it is less than $600? I also wanted to ask, if we report an income, can we also claim expenses, such as photo equipment?

According to the IRS, you are supposed to claim ALL income.  But in general, people don't claim income that is not reported to the IRS.

If you report income, then you can also claim LEGITIMATE expenses.  So anything that you used to generate your income is a possibility, but some things are more difficult to claim than others.  For example, if you use your computer for stock photography, but you also use it for other things (personal, your day job, etc), then you can only claim it partially at best.  And you are supposed to keep records to show how you came up with those numbers.  Another sticky area is claiming your home as a place of business.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I am not an accountant.  It is up to you to verify all of this.

AVAVA:

Thank you very much for your graciousness.

I appreciate all of the help that you have been providing.

NOTE: PLEASE ONLY VOTE IN THIS POLL IF YOU ARE AN INDEPENDENT.

As the question asks, which stock agency do you feel is best (from a submitters point of view)?

I am wondering what submitters (photographers, illustrators, CGI artists, etc) feel is the best agency.

You can vote anonymously and don't need to leave a response if you don't want, but if you want you can leave the reason for your vote as well.

FYI: I only included the top 7 sites, since they are the largest, and ordered the sites in the poll according to the "Microstock Poll Results" (on the right side of this page).

I was expecting a bad month for December.  So far it has been alright, but I expect that today is really the last day of the month for sales.

What is everyone's guess for when things will pick up again?

IE is not less secure than FF

While I agree with most of the statements that you made, I have to disagree with this one.

IE is less secure by the fact that it is the most prevalent browser.  More people use it and this makes more people interested in hacking it.

Hackers are not that interested in less known browsers, since they will not give them the "bang for the buck" that they are looking for.

If possible, I would like to read the thread from where I read it last.  In other words, it should go to the post where I last read it and continue from there.

For example, if I never read the thread, then it should go to the first post.

But if I read the thread yesterday at 3:00 pm, then it should go the the next post after that time.

I got it to work in the Mozilla Firefox browser, but it doesn't seem to work in the Google Chrome browser.

Any chance that it might be updated (by removing LuckyOliver, which is long since gone, and adding some other sites that are still around)?