Marvel Comics is releasing 2500 comics online for paid subscribers, including 250 free for a limited time. Surely you share my love of comics with me? Why? Because only in the comic world does good always win out, and women can run around with big boobies, with no gravity-related concerns. My idol, Wonder Women, also got to look pretty hot.

Marvel Comics Starts Online Service
Tuesday November 13, 7:59 am ET

Marvel Comics Launches Online Subscription Service, Gives Access to Archives NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Comics, a unit of Marvel Entertainment Inc., launched an online subscription service Tuesday that provides access to its comic book archives.

Customers will have access to the first issues of titles including “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Incredible Hulk,” as well as miniseries and special issues.

The Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited site will offer various search options and personalized reading list tools.

The site, which offers more than 2,500 comic books, will have subscription rates starting at $4.99 a month with an annual subscription. At least 20 additional titles will be added each week based on editors’ picks and subscriber requests.

Marvel said the site will provide a free sample of 250 comic book titles for a limited time.

 

Photojojo - The best photo tips, DIY projects, and gear in the whole wide world

Photojojo is a nice site with a photo newsletter for digital camera users. Subscribe up for the twice-weekly newsletter, or better yet - do what I do, and use the RSS feed into your favourite reader. Check out the archives, though. The latest is about dogs (seems to be one of those dog-days) and telling us to use circle-cutters with the photos.

Now, either circle cutters are doing a retro comeback, or Photojojo have lost their audience here a little. It's for digital camera owners right? Then simply tell them to cut it out in a circle - digitally. Most cameras come with some type of digital photo editor, most of which have simple cut out tools like that. It could be the birth of a whole new generation of digital enthusiasts if Photojojo thought about that one for you...

The next one up tells us about Vectormagic, which I was playing around with a day or so ago - VectorMagic is a free online service which de-pixilates your images for you - and it works really well on logos and the like.

And the next one up on Photojojo is a small bit on a tiny camera called the Smiley-Cam. I'll leave you to read up on that one, lol.

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Shutterfly Digi Scrap Blog: Heather Ann Melzer: Celebrates With Her Pet!
The shutterfly holiday blog shows Heather Ann Melzer celebrating the holidays with her pet - who happens to be an Old English Sheepdog wearing those funny reindeer horns that only good dog owners know how to embarrass their pet’s with.

But eighty pounds! No one told me mine was going to grow that big. Holey moley, I thought it was bad enough getting simon to wear the santa hat the other day for his christmas piccy.

Creating Keepsakes What’s Coming For 2008

Well, I’m uncertain of this one. The new cover looks very retro - very 1970s, if you would have asked me to say so, without reading the blurb. The cover layout topspot is gone, and instead there are promises of mini albums and other projects on the front cover - or even (shock, horror!) people. Like this one.

People! Aha, so perhaps that is a clue to my 1970s style opinion. The woman on the front cover has some lovely retro hair - almost Farrah Fawcett like. It turns out this is CK’s Scrapbooker of the Year, Elizabeth Kartchner - who does indeed look like Farrah in her Charlie’s Angels years. She’s even got clothes on to match the lamp and cabinet in her background. Is CK trying to outmode Mode Magazine perhaps.  (Sorry, irrelevant Ugly Betty reference there).

Inside, it’s much cleaner and greener (sorry, whiter) with a nice new table of contents styel - so I kinda like that. But I will be intrigued to see how it looks throughout the mag, what with the 70% fullpage advertising pages which has been happening a lot recently, making actually finding an article sometimes pick and miss.

And what’s this about “Your 2008 Life Plan”? on the header. January’s edition seems to promise a lot. A great lot. My entire life, in fact. I have visions of being told exactly what photos and layouts I should be designing day by day, month by month… But I’m sure all will become clearer once the actual new look CK is out and about.

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Okay, we’ve all read the news about how well Shutterfly is doing in it’s business, and the profits it’s made over the last year. We’re also aware of the shutterfly Holiday’s blog, and affiliations with primarily U.S. Digital Designers. And we know that Shutterfly haven’t really considered offering the same services on a local basis to other countries.

Here in the U.K. no one offers the same digital orientated range of photobooks as yet (Pixum are still to do 12x12 inch for instance) and Photobook and printing companies here have only just started targetting this market. Before I found that out, I had already put an order in for two photobooks from Shutterfly.

And they went missing in action. These were expensive (for me, if you include the international postage involved) books, and also key to commencing the promotion of my own DigiD4O business to locals. They were gift and sample books to show people, and hopefully get some potential interest in orders.

And boy was I worried when two weeks, three weeks then four weeks after the shipping date came around that they simply weren’t going to appear. There was no way I was going to be able to afford to have them reprinted, and I seriously thought about never risking the U.S. to U.K. mail service again. There was the possibility they got lost in the U.S. or got thrown away going through customs perhaps, let alone the somewhat poor state of the British Mail service also (which had recently gone out on strike also).

So, two days ago, I finally admitted defeat, and gave up hope, and put through an enquiry with Shutterfly’s Customer Service team (nameless people that they are). I asked simply to see if they could track the goods,  so that I knew at what point it might have got lost.

What I wasn’t expected to be told is that given it was over three weeks my order was indeed deemed lost, and they would reprint and resend to me - at no cost to myself! Whilst I was grinning from ear to ear the next day, on recieving such a message, the actual books turned up. Yes, they were now over a month late, but they got here! All glossy and everything.  I feel like I’ve gone through birth here, but it’s well worth it.

So, my utmost compliments to the customer service provided by Shutterfly all told. They don’t just care about their more local customers, they also care about those of us sitting a little further afield. Well done, Shutterfly - you’ve won my heart and future custom.