by Pat Wright

I have been invited by Click•Scan•Share to write a new blog on what services they provide, and I have quickly elevated myself as the new Social Media Director. Life is good.

When I started working with this company I did have a little trouble figuring out exactly what they do. Visiting one of their stores I did find a plethora of ideas. My challenge; explore and share the  possibilities available from this company.

Celebrate the arrival of autumn at the 43rd annual Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival. Join the party on Main Street in California's stunning seaside town of Half Moon Bay, where a bountiful yearly pumpkin crop has made them the self-proclaimed "World Pumpkin Capital". This free festival runs the weekend of October 19th and 20th, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Appropriately described as “the ROYAL GRANDADDY of all festivals”, the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival promises to feature all things pumpkin; and it most definitely delivers. Don’t miss these fun, and delicious, festival highlights:

The story of Betamax video always has to be told with the adjunct of one particular group of letters: VHS. Or at least that's where the story ends and not quite where it begins. For those who weren't living when the videotape era began, there might be an assumption that VHS was first. The truth is, Betamax was the first commercially available videotape format a year before VHS was even introduced.

The origins of the name for this video format came from the Japanese word "beta" for recording signals and "max" coming from "maximum."

If you were to conduct a search of all the videos tucked away in various areas of your home, where would you find them? Chances are the first places you would look would be your computer's hard drive and perhaps an external hard drive or two. Then you would likely remember that "transfer VHS tapes to DVD" task you've been planning for the last several years.

It wouldn't take long for one important question to filter into your brain: What videos, both new and old, do I have that I want to preserve for the future, for my children and grandchildren? With this one question to guide you in your video search, let's see where else those important videos might be hiding.