Picture Keeper 8GB Thumb Drive
by: Rev. James G.W. Fisher | The Toy Man® - Product Evaluation Specialist
Evaluation Report Summary Date: 09/28/2009 Anyone with a computer and digital camera today is all too familiar with the joy of "trying" to keep digital images in sort of order and classification, yet more often than not, their efforts prove futile. Picture Keeper solves that problem and best of all, it is easy to use, affordable, and convenient.
Evaluation Summary - Category Ratings
Category ratings are based on scale from 1 to 5 - [3] = Average [4] = Well Above-Average [5] = Best
| Cost Benefit | Ease of Use | Functionality | Hybrid-Use™ | Marketability | Unique Value |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Introducing Picture Keeper Picture Keeper is the answer that so many people are looking for...a real problem solver. How is this so? well, let's start with the fact that anyone with a computer and digital camera today are all too familiar with the joy of "trying" to keep digital images in sort of order and classification, yet more often than not, their efforts prove futile. Picture Keeper solves that problem and best of all, it is easy to use, affordable, and convenient. Next we have the USB thumb drive idea. While it may serve as an excellent and portable storage device, the issue with the organization of the content still exists and takes time that must be invested, many times for hours on end. I am sure that some Wizkid on the block as he or she reads this is thinking to themselves, "What's he talking about? A person can use **** software or just store it on a thumb drive." My response to that is that first of all, for the software solution, you generally have to go to a store to go buy the software. Then you have the learning curve with the software, not even counting the time and money invested to accomplish all that. Let's face the real facts here...Digital cameras are a wonderful piece of equipment to own. They can make it so easy to capture individual special moments, or even those once in a lifetime experiences of a wedding or a child being born. Those are the times when what seems like a countless number of images are captured. While it is so great to have these all of these unique images captured, a legacy of moments from your life, the fun part is trying to remember where they are or how to organize them later. This where the Picture Keeper becomes the ultimate solution! Simplicity and the OopsFactor™! It seems today that simplicity is in the highest level of demand ever. People are so busy going about meeting their busy schedules they never seems to have time to get everything completed. We could never in a lifetime even begin to imagine how many times we had something scheduled and missed the opportunity. One of the best ways that Picture Keeper can prove its full worth is helping you create new pockets of free time to help you get an edge on those missed appointments, tasks to be completed, or lost moments of past.
We can contemplate over those missed appointments, tasks never completed, or lost moments of past, yet those regrets are far outweighed by the loss of images which were special and can never be retrieved again.or a thousand pictures during a vacation, but it's easy to forget about backing up digital images until it's too late. Sudden events like a computer crash, fire or theft can't be predicted, but you can prevent against total loss by backing up digital images often and keeping them in a safe place (separate from where your computer is.) You will unquestionably agree with my prior statements yet there is the problem with human nature...we tend to forget to attend to tasks such as this. We keep pushing the task off to later, assuming nothing will happen to our images then the OopsFactor™ comes upon us. Just like Murphy's Law, if it can happen it will. With the OopsFactor™, if you assume nothing could ever happen to your digital images, you can rest assured IT WILL! Picture Keeper saves the day for you by stopping the OopsFactor™ but it doesn't quit there. With Picture Keeper, users plug the USB drive into a computer and click the "Start Backup" button. The device automatically finds and copies all images with jpeg/jpg extensions on the computer. Folders and sub folders are also copied just as they are on your computer, making it easy to find files once they've been copied onto the Picture Keeper. It is important to note that Picture Keeper backs up images with .jeg/.jpg extensions as a default setting. You can add virtually any other file extension on your computer by going into OPTIONS and select ADVANCED option to designate additional folders to scan for images as well image extensions other than the default extensions.  Obtaining An Independent Perspective... In this section we will cover "Picture Keeper 8GB" thumb drive from the perspectives of qualified individuals" in the specific field associated with the product being evaluated. To accomplish that task we have called upon the assistance of two top level industry professionals who know their stuff and have the credentials" to prove it. Our professional and independent evaluators have formed their own opinions from extensive analysis and produced detailed, in-depth product evaluation reports connected with their study and evaluation of the Picture Keeper 8GB thumb drive. The information to follow is comprised of excerpts from those same reports which have been paraphrased in order to encapsulate the primary points being conveyed in each report. This approach provides completely independent perspectives in the evaluation of Picture Keeper. PLEASE NOTE: The names of our independent evaluators are not disclosed to protect the privacy of these individuals upon their request. Their labors are provided at no charge to assist us in developing a well-balanced and qualified product evaluation summary. Their title is provided to clarify for our readers the specific type of specialist from which the information provided has been included in each product evaluation summary.
USB Design Engineer "USB product design is has expanded into wide variety of product design developments ranging from embedded USB devices to simple consumer portable USB devices such as Picture Keeper. For a consumer this is a very simple, plug and play accessory for backing up image files but the actual design of the product is far from simple. A portable USB product design requires a solid understanding of driver development, and processors just to start. The designers of Picture Keeper are well versed in their field in USB development and design from my own perspective." "Picture Keeper is what I consider an intellectual infant still evolving to greater heights while showing well above average qualities easily recognized to set itself apart from the rest, right from the start. A visually appealing size and shape cover the consumer side of the coin while the programming structure of the software which defines the product's level of functionality sends a clear message of 'Look out, I'm Coming through!'." "This is a product that I am assuming in its development was designed with forward thinking in mind. Many companies just produce a basic USB storage device, some with a few extra bells and whistles, but with no further evolution intended. This is not the case with Picture Keeper. I could write pages and pages of details in regard to where this product could be going but the focus here is on if it meets the strict standards to pass your pub's evaluation." "The summary of my message of my evaluation is that this is a well designed USB storage device/accessory that tested well above expectations on a varied number of PC's and MAC computers, both laptop and desktop as well as corporate network stations. It performed flawlessly with every machine I installed it on to perform my evaluation. The driver installation on all testing machines was like a snap of the fingers in time to complete in comparison to many other USB devices I have evaluated in the past and failed them. All I can say is SNAP!!! This product is a perfect example of USB development engineering I like to see." Digital Storage Specialist "Picture Keeper is unique in that it is geared to fulfill the general needs of consumers for storing their digital data in a simple and effective manner with an interface for prompt and easy retrieval. At the same time, and what appears to be unintended, Picture Keeper is indirectly geared towards the needs of imaging specialists in the computer world. These are the specialists who are always seeking a faster and more efficient solution to storing and moving digital data." "In my evaluation tests, I ran Picture Keeper through the basic run as a general consumer would experience, then progressed into more detailed tasking, filling the storage device to maxi um capacity and deleting files repeatedly on multiple systems with different operating platforms, including a BETA copy of Windows 7. Despite the extensive number of repetitions of adding and deleting files, there were no occurrences of failure or delays." "As a final test of the product, I cancelled the backups at various periods of time, deleting some or all of the files backed up repeatedly. I even did several warm boots of one of the test PC's while a backup was occurring with Picture Keeper yet there still were no delays, errors, or failures occurring. The level of dependability is great and I can recommend use of this storage device to other professionals in digital imaging even though this model is only 8GB is size." "For those who are not well versed in digital imaging for professionals, some images can be more than the size of the Picture Keeper in GB. For consumers, this is a perfect and well designed match with a fair price point. Irrespective of the level of your computer skills, the Picture Keeper is so easy you just plug it and walk away as it does the job." | |||||||
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