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TOBY SHAPSHAK: Save your photos for posterity
As great as our smartphones are for taking pictures, you need a smart way to back them up
Noooo, my friend’s Facebook status cried. A stolen iPhone meant he had lost 10,000 treasured photographs. It’s a common problem of our smartphone era, where our mobiles have become the centre of our lives. With more powerful cameras, that let us instantly post to social media, they are also the device we use to take all our pictures. Those treasured pictures of small children taking their first steps, the endless selfies in front of tourist sites around the world, and a gazillion pictures of cutesy pets. They are a visual history of our lives. But if your phone is lost or stolen, these photos become true to their digital ethereal nature, and are gone. Forever gone.
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