Over the past few months, I’ve spent a not too small an amount of money on parking and entrance fees to various National Trust properties.  Seeing as though I plan to visit many more, it makes sense to take advantage of the benefits offered to NT members such as:

• Free entry and parking at over 300 historic sites
• Free parking at countryside and coastline locations
• A members guide book to all NT sites
• Newsletters about special events
• 3 editions of the NT magazine
• Free access to National Trust for Scotland sites as well as others around the world.

If you’re not yet a member of the National Trust and considering signing up then you might like to know that you can currently get a free pair of binoculars by using one of the many promotional links scattered around the web. To find one of these links just (more…)

Are you backing up your important data and digital photo’s yet? If not then you really should consider what you’d do in the case of your hard disk crashing or your computer being stolen. Would you be able to replace all of your once-in-a-lifetime photo opportunities?

The time to start backing up is now and what better than a totally automated backup solution that keeps an encrypted copy of your data safely away from your computer.

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I’ve got MozyHome automatically backing up my important files whenever my computer has been idle for few minutes. Knowing that a copy of my essential data is stored safely online means less worrying about hardware failures.

My nearly new Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM zoom lens is being auctioned on eBay and starting at just 99 pence!

Imagine losing all of your photos, videos, music and documents stored on your computer

At right this very moment, your data is at risk from any number of different ways of being destroyed, lost or overwritten. In an ideal world, computer hardware would never fail, laptops would never get knocked onto the floor and burglaries would never happen in your neighbourhood. In reality, these things can and do happen, often with serious consequences.

Fortunately, making back-up copies of your important computer files is easy and having a back-up can mean the difference between days of lost work and a few minutes of restoration time.

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What’s a nicer way to start off my new photography blog than with a post on how I’ve just received my Canon Cashback cheque through the post today?

Canon having been running their Cashback promotions for quite some time now, but I was always going to buy Canon when I once again became a SLR user however, it’s a certainly a nice sweetener to receive a cheque in the mail.

When I purchased my EOS 40D body and EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM standard zoom, Canon were offering £100 cashback on the body and £40 on the lens. I went on to purchase another two Canon lenses in Hong Kong, but they weren’t eligible for the Cashback offer. That doesn’t bother me too much since I saved well more than the £85 I’d have received if I’d bought them in an eligible country.

If you’re wondering how long it took to process my Cashback claim it was received into the system on 20/03/2008 and I’ve just received my cheque for £140 today (14/04/2008).