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If digital cameras have done anything, they’ve allowed us to take thousands of more crappy photos than we ever would have with an old film camera. The benefit though is that it doesn’t matter because we can just delete the bad ones with no ill effect.

Sometimes though we get a good photo, but it’s just not quite as good as it could be with some touch-up work done to it.

That’s where MyPhotoGenie comes in to save the day.

Just upload your digital photo to MyPhotoGenie, select the various photo edits you’d like to have done to your file and boom, in 24 hours you’ve got a tweaked and improved photo to use anywhere you’d like.

MyPhotoGenie really specializes in photos used for automobiles (think auctions and fan sties), real estate (if you’re going to sell your house you want the photo of it to look great!) and social networking/dating sites.

For the most part most of the edits done are for color balancing, touch-up, brightness contrast and other cleaning processes for the digital image. If you’re not skilled with photo editing software and some other tools though, having someone to send the work off to and get it done professionally and quickly is a great service to use.

The next time you need to have your 1,000 words worth just a little bit more, send you image to MyPhotoGenie and let them work some of their magic.

In my recent quest to finally figure out how I’m going to setup a reliable and almost brainless back-up plan for my computer, I uncovered the backupify website (after a tip from my friend Noah Coffey). You can currently use the service for free to backup a variety of online website data.

My first question after seeing the site is why would I really need to backup my online data like that? It’s online. Don’t they backup their own stuff? After reading through the site, there are a number of obvious answers to that question and all of them make me feel like an idiot for not thinking of them in the first place.

To put it plainly. Businesses shut-down. Things happen. Backup stuff yourself!

You can currently start using backupify for free and backup settings and content for your Flickr, Twitter, Del.icio.us, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, FriendFeed, Blogger, Hotmail and soon to be many more.

Getting things setup with each service was super simple and where available, the backupify service takes advantage of the new authorization options available with many social networking services. Props to you backupify!

Our family recent returned from Orlando, FL for a surprise holiday trip to the Walt Disney World with some friends. The two other guys in the group had apps on their iPhone and Android phone that told them the estimated wait times for the different rides and attractions.

When I returned from vacation my boss shared with me the CoasterQ website which gives you all the same information, but for more parks than just those found in Walt Disney World in Florida.

With the CoasterQ site you can search for the park you’re visiting and then add the rides you’re interested in to your “queue” for watching the wait times. Along with telling you the current estimated wait times, you can also get information on whether or not fast passes are available or whether or not there is a height restriction to the ride.

Although not completely accurate, we found the estimates were fairly close in our experience. It’s a handy little tool to have in your pocket to organize your plan for hitting all of your favorite rides.

Uncover your expected wait time at your favorite amusement park attractions with CoasterQ.