Archive for July, 2010

Automatic Picasa Album Imports

Monday, July 19th, 2010

A quick update to let everyone know that you can now schedule Picasa albums to automatically import based on a keyword. Of course, you can still also import from Flickr or Facebook as well.

For more information on how to use Picasa with Lil’Grams, see our User Guide:
Picasa User Guide

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

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Announcing Evernote Integration

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

This is a busy week here at Lil’Grams, to say the least. We’ve been hard at working trying to make the lives of our parents simpler and those of their loved ones happier. Today, we’re happy to announce another quick step in that direction.

What’s Evernote?

Evernote is an amazing note taking application that lets you, basically. remember everything. Evernote works from almost every device, from your desktop to your mobile. With more than 3 million happy users already, it’s clearly helping tons of people stay on top of things.

Why Evernote?

When we first met the crew at Evernote, we were quite pleased to hear that one of the original goals for the app was to help parents capture a child’s day to day things. It’s no wonder Evernote makes it super simple to capture photos, audio, notes and more. Apparently, that heritage lives on.

It turns out that tons of parents are using Evernote already. They’re tracking new words, special photos, and lots of other great moments from their baby’s life. Of course, we’re convinced that moments are memories until they’re shared – and sharing’s what we’re awesome at.

How’s It Work?

With Lil’Grams and Evernote, you now have the ultimate memory sharing system. Evernote will let you take notes from you phone, email, the web and more. Lil’Grams will take those notes, beautify them, and instantly share them with your loved ones via email, facebook, twitter and more.

Why Should I Try This?

If you’re not using Evernote already, we definitely think you’ll like the benefits:

  • Mobile clients for iphone, android and more
  • Background syncing for your notes, photos and more
  • Rich formatting for your grams – mix text and photos with ease!

Learn More

To make sure you get the most out of our Evernote Integration, we’ve launched a new user guide:

Evernote User Guide

Special Offer

We’re so excited about the new integration we’re giving ALL Evernote customers 1 free year. Use the code EVERNOTE.

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Automatic Grams from Flickr & Facebook

Monday, July 12th, 2010

We’re very excited to announce a new set of features today that we still smile at when we see it in action: Automatic Albums. We’ve spoken with hundreds of parents and they consistently tell us that they love Lil’Grams, though they really love their Flickr and Facebook accounts for storing their photos.

Our mission is to help you be the best memory maker, no matter where your photos are. To that end, your Flickr and Facebook albums will be imported, beautified, and delivered automatically as you create them – just setup your keywords and we’ll do the rest.

Going Automatic

Get Started Now!

Getting started is super simple:

  1. Load up your Accounts (preferences > accounts)
  2. Setup your keywords (words we should keep track of)
  3. We check your account every few hours or so for new matching albums
  4. We create new MediaGrams and deliver them to loved ones

Brand New User Guides

As part of this new release, we’ve created 2 new guides to answer all your questions:
Facebook User Guide Flickr User Guide

Update: Automatic importing from Picasa is now live

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Some Small, But Important, Updates

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

We’ve been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks as we have been working on a new, very exciting feature for Lil’Grams that we can’t just yet announce. Stay tuned until next week for that news.

In the meantime, we’ve made a couple of small changes worth noting.

Add More Babies!

While we focused on adding in and updating a number of features over the past couple of months, we also moved some out. We’ve had several requests to be able to add more than one baby to your account and that option is now back.

Whenever you add a new baby, your address book is automatically copied over to the new baby’s account.

Preferences Panel

A few of our parents have let us know that they’re taking advantage of our email gram posting. This is great and we hope to see even more of you going this right. One small issue that occurred, though, was that grams weren’t getting sent out to loved ones – our default security setting was that only parents could see a gram.

You can now change your default sharing preferences from within your Baby’s Details page. You’ll also notice some new options which will be coming very soon!

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04

Sunday, July 4th, 2010
  • @dezignated Coffee tomorrow sounds great. We're at the Gladstone for most of the day. in reply to dezignated #
  • Wer'e in Toronto visiting until Wednesday, if anyone wants to meet #

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