Free app will auto-migrate your digital photos

How many of us have pictures on our cell phones or digital cameras that we can't get off those devices? There's a solution I want to suggest.

My executive producer Christa read about a free app called Sugar Sync in Real Simple magazine. Sugar Sync allows you to seamlessly sync up your digital devices with your computer. It's available for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and more.

So in theory, all those pictures I have on my Android phone that I can't do anything with could be automatically migrated to my computer. Then I could print them out or do whatever else I wanted.

Speaking of taking pictures, all the camera makers at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month were trying to get customers interested again in standalone digital units. They're trying out lower price points, special features and enhanced photo-taking capability.

I'm not sure the camera companies can revive this dying genre. We all do our photo taking on our phones these days. The era of the standalone camera is mostly gone, I believe, except for people going on sightseeing trips.

One final note: The price points on low-end Android phones are phenomenal thanks to an influx of cheap Chinese models. Look for street prices of around $50 to $100. In some very rare instances, wireless carriers may give Android phones away, as I saw Cricket doing recently for a limited time.