AOL Pictures Introduces Free Photo Sharing Website.DULLES, Va. -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Pictures Offers Consumers Unlimited Online Digital Photo Storage, Tools That Make It Easier To Create Photo Albums, and Special Holiday Offer for Free Prints AOL today announced the launch of AOL Pictures. The free photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images. website offers consumers unlimited online digital photo storage in original resolution, tools that make it easier to create photo albums, and much more. As a special holiday promotion, AOL Pictures is offering each user 100, free 4x6 glossy or matte prints. AOL Pictures, formerly known as You've Got Pictures, is a popular online service which has been enhanced to provide a comprehensive digital photo solution for consumers who want an easy way to view, share, store, print and protect all of their favorite images. The service, which currently has more than six million monthly visitors and stores nearly 300 million photos, builds on AOL's extensive infrastructure to offer unlimited and free storage for digital photos in their original resolution, and is available free to anyone on the Internet through the AOL.com portal (http://www.aol.com/pictures), as well as on the AOL service. "AOL Pictures is a completely new version of our leading online photo service that first launched in 1998 and continues to handle millions of photos shared via e-mail and instant messages every month," said David Liu David Liu is a Taiwanese figure skater. He represented Taiwan at three Olympic Games: the 1998 Winter Olympics, where he placed 27th; 1992 Winter Olympics where he placed 17th; and the 1988 Winter Olympics, where he placed and 25th. , General Manager and Vice President, AOL.com. "Available for free to anyone on the Web at AOL.com, AOL Pictures gives consumers a complete digital photo experience with benefits like unlimited, free photo storage, and integration with the AIM service and our blogging tools," he added. For a limited time, and as an added bonus for those who plan to print and send photos over the holidays, consumers can order up to 100 4x6 glossy or matte prints FREE when ordered online through AOL Pictures(1). For more details about this offer, please visit http://www.aol.com/pictures or AOL Keyword: Pictures. Features of the new AOL Pictures service include: --Free, Unlimited Photo Storage lets consumers upload their digital photos where they can be viewed and shared with anyone on the Web, and users can also save photos they've received via AOL Pictures to their PC's hard drive in full/original resolution; --Enhanced Web-based Design Offers Access From Anywhere and makes viewing images and photo sharing faster and easier, with drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. features for simple picture arranging and organization. Also, for convenience, no special sign-in or registration is required for those who receive images or photo albums; --Improved Image Uploader Tool with Drag-and-Drop Functionality makes it easier for consumers to transfer images from their computer to AOL Pictures, and arrange and organize their photo albums; --Integrated Photo Sharing within popular communications Popular Communications is a magazine with content relating to the radio hobby, including scanners, shortwave radio, CB, and amateur radio. The magazine includes articles, schedules of shortwave stations, and logs of pirate radio communications sent in by readers. features like AOL(R) Mail, the AIM service, AOL(R) Journals and AIM(R) Blogs, and the AOL Member Directory enable consumers to seamlessly share individual photos and photo albums from e-mail, instant messages and blogs; --Mobile Photo Access lets AOL members access their photos stored on AOL Pictures through their cell phones or PDAs; --Convenient Printing Options and an Online Print Store make it easy for consumers to print favorite photos using their own home printer or to order prints online. The AOL Pictures Print Store offers high-quality 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 and wallet-size prints as well as a variety of photo gifts including memory books, calendars, mugs, mouse pads, t-shirts, ornaments and more; --Updated Image Editor gives consumers the flexibility to edit and enhance photos by adjusting brightness, correcting red eye, converting to sepia SEPIA - Standard ECRC Prolog Integrating Applications. Prolog with many extensions including attributed variables ("metaterms") and declarative coroutining. "SEPIA", Micha Meier <micha@ecrc.de> et al, TR-LP-36 ECRC, March 1988. Version 3.1 available for Suns and VAX. or black and white tones, cropping images and more; and --Slideshow Features include a one-click speed adjustment and ability to expand window to full screen slideshow. The new AOL Pictures is another offering available on the new AOL.com portal, now open to everyone on the Web, and among an array of new features that give consumers more ways to connect and communicate with others. About America Online See AOL. , Inc. America Online, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate a leading network of Web brands and the largest Internet access See how to access the Internet. subscription service in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Brands include the AOL(R) service, the AOL.com(R) website, and the AIM(R), MapQuest(R), Moviefone(R), Netscape(R), CompuServe(R) and ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. (R) services. America Online offers a range of digital services including the TotalTalk(R) voice service. The company also has operations in Canada and Europe. America Online, Inc. is based in Dulles, Virginia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TWX (TeletypeWriter eXchange Service) A U.S. and Canadian dial-up communications service that became part of Telex. In 1971, the Bell System sold TWX to Western Union. TWX transmitted 5-bit Murray code or 7-bit ASCII code at up to 150 bps. See Telex. ) (1) Shipping, handling and taxes are not included and conditions of the offer may change without notice. 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