Converting old memories into new digital formats means encoding them as a string of zeroes and ones, like a scoring table after a yodeled rendition of "Amazing Grace" divides judges between goose eggs and perfect 10s. Express yourself binarily with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $75 worth of media-conversion services from Southtree.
Having preserved more than 25 billion frames of home-movie magic, Southtree modernizes fading photos and videos to stave off deterioration before it eats away the vibrancy of irreplaceable memories. Customers can immortalize 1980s gazpacho-eating contest triumphs with Southtree's videos-to-DVD service, adding chapters and disc titles to film formats that include MiniDV and VHS cassettes ($8.95/tape) and Super 8 and 16mm reels ($15.95/50 ft.). Kodak digital image correction and enhancement erases distracting dust and beach-photo belly-button lint during the photos-to-digital service ($0.59/print, negative, or slide). The simple mail-in process takes two to three weeks to complete, with a flat-rate return shipping fee of $9.95 regardless of order size.
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The Groupon Guide to: Surfing the Internet
Containing everything from the great works of literature to spoilers for the upcoming presidential election, the Internet can be a valuable resource—if you know how to use it. Use these tips to ensure a productive trip to cyberspace and back:
- Type the word surf into your computer's keyboard at anytime to access your Internet's web browser.
- If your computer is less than 10 years old, your browser must be voice navigated. Shout such things as "photo of a helicopter" or "birth parents?" and let the Internet do the rest.
- The Internet has more than 60 websites. Remember your favorites by "bookmarking" them (writing their names down on a bookmark you keep nailed to your computer).
- Surf safely. Not only is this practical advice, it's also the name of the web's official mascot, Surf Safely, the surfing coyote who reminds children not to burn down the Internet.
- Unplug and unwind. Using the Internet for more than four minutes a day will cause hair to grow uncontrollably from your mouth.
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