has developed a patent pending technology, providing the ability to share photos in e-mail in any size or number. Sure, you might think you can do this already, but if you have a new mega-pixel camera and wish to share those great photos in email as attachments you might want to consider Icu software's digital film process. Icu software products use this technology to provide ultra-crisp photos without time consuming preparation or guess work, you simply select the photos and after automated preparation they display within your e-mail message ready to send, professionally prepared, no attachments, no virus concerns and without storage or bandwidth load on your recipients e-mail server! Regardless of photo content, your e-mail file sizes are never greater than that of the text, this means you can send to a list instantly while providing your recipients the ability to also annotate the message with the images with the additional capability to forward or respond instantly!

Your email services work differently than you might think regardless of a high speed Internet connection, if your fortunate enough to have one. There are 2 key components to consider, web servers provide the ability to view web pages through your Internet connection while email servers provide e-mail messages and attachments to and from your recipients. While both use your Internet connection, sending photos as attachments through your e-mail server can take the same time as filling a gastank with a straw regardless whether you are driving a Ferrari or Volkswagen. An additional drawback is that attachments do not take on as much meaning when separated from the message through the additional application required to to open them for preview, making matters worse, photos can only then be distinguished by the file name like 34535.jpg. This still does not get to the point, I worry when selecting an attachment, it might not be a welcome experience or one that I would share.

Here are some of the features icu digital film provides-

• ultra fast and simple photo exchanges, icu digital film automates photo preparation and placement onto a web space- linking the photos back into your e-mail message. Because webservers provide fast uploads and downloads in comparison to e-mail servers, images display fast in the e-mail message. Another important advantage is that your e-mail messages are never greater in size than the amount of text , regardless of photo content
• no additional processing loads, photos appear in the e-mail message, recipients do not require a second or third application to enable previews, while image display alone requires abundant memory and processing- the additional load of a second application can cause failure to an already overburdened PC
• no e-mail storage problems, e-mail servers restrict the amount of content that not only passes through but what is held before the recipient views the message. E-mail messages with attachments fail to send or receive due to this reason. E-mail applications and Companies that receive a lot of e-mail block attachments due to this and virus concerns.
• safer, because no attachments are required recipients are no longer apprehensive due to virus concerns
• better communication, all photos appear with text message, this removes confusion when several images are e-mailed whereas the e-mail application displays the text and other applications provide the photos. This provides your information separated by applications, causing confusion due to photo displays in undetermined locations within limited screen space, many times over or behind the e-mail message.
• selective content, recipients can select to preview larger photo versions or hotspots on images to expose subject matter. Because selective content downloads from the browser the display is fast and the recipient never loses focus of the original image.
• instant forwarding and reply, recipients can add messages to images and respond instantly without uploading images because they are linked into the message and are already on the web.
• user selective preferences, selecting a preference is all that is required to customize resizing, compression and linking of images to e-mail messages
• share while mobile, a reconnection process keeps your connections in check, whether you are in an office or mobile- traveling between transmission towers, once you select to share any number of photos you can drink coffee or drive because if you lose your connection you do not lose your data, the reconnection process reestablishes your connections and finishes the process where it left off, once processing is finished type your e-mail message and send, your e-mail message is instant because the images are on your web space.
• send from history, icu software applications that provide icu digital film processing store your e-mail messages in a history file, because you photos are held on your web space each history file is very small and can be e-mailed instantly.

icu digital film overcomes the file size issue associated with sending image files by inserting a text URL into the e-mail message that points to the image instead of e-mailing the image itself. The image is neither attached nor inserted into the e-mail message when it's sent. Instead, through the icu digital film process, selected images reside on webspace and display in the body of the e-mail message on the sender's and recipient's e-mail message. This allows e-mail messages to be quickly and easily handled by e-mail servers when sending, receiving and forwarding (a typical e-mail using this method is only 4KB in length).

When recipients receive e-mail messages via Picture Emailer or marketing from products Picture Alice or Picture Pay, they simply open and read them using their standard e-mail reader software. No special software or plug-ins are required. The embedded URL in the HTML code of the e-mail message causes the e-mail reader to automatically download the digital files and show them as part of the displayed e-mail message. This process is much faster than attachments and allows the recipient to annotate the message with images and reply or forward the information instantly.

Regardless of image size or number of images. With a small e-mail message sending and forwarding speeds are hundreds of times faster than using attachment methods. In addition, picture exchanges are essentially guaranteed by icu digital films smart reconnection process. If a fault occurs in the connection it is automatically reestablished, finishing where the process left off.

What about re-sizing and compression? It's fully automated, according to user preferences. After connecting a digital camera storage device to the PC and selecting an icu software product as the target application, images are loaded onto the PC. When the user selects some or all of those images to be emailed, the icu digital film process executes a series of automated actions, requiring no user interaction. According to pre-set, adjustable configuration parameters, the icu digital film process can include image linking, compression, re-sizing, hotspots, picture copyrighting and comment generation. Status of the film processing steps is displayed to the user but runs in background mode.

How are the images uploaded to private web space? icu digital film automatically creates a unique address on private web space for each group of pictures to be shared. This same URL address will be used to retrieve images when the original e-mail is forwarded. Images can also be linked for use in on-line auctions (such as E-bay), classified ads, online publications, and various commercial situations such as real estate listings, insurance claims, and used vehicle sales. Corporations, using icu software, dramatically reduce the storage issue associated with emails because sent images are maintained as a single instance instead of being stored over and over again in each recipient's e-mail space.

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