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My grandparents (in their mid-90s) have an iPad. I want a way to post baby pictures and videos for them. This might involve a web service, an installed software program (which would have to be compatible with both OS X and Windows), or both.

Flickr cuts off videos after 30 seconds. Tumblr videos don't display on iPad (although they display on iPhone, a discrepancy that I find odd). Vimeo doesn't share photos.

Please let me know if you know of an application that meets this need.

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Unfortunately this will probably get closed as "not computer related," since it's more about web services than physical computers. Just warning you. – Sasha Chedygov Aug 9 '10 at 5:07
Now that I've added an answer that covers actual installed software and not just a website, the closing should be less a risk I hope. It's a very good question! – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Aug 9 '10 at 5:55
I've edited the question to include a specific request for installed applications as well as web services. Hopefully this will allow the question to remain open. torbengb, thanks for the suggestion—I will investigate Picasa's sharing features. – Gabe Aug 9 '10 at 6:16
I still think it's better to ask this question on webapps.stackexchange.com or apple.stackexchange.com if it should be an iPad app – Ivo Flipse♦ Aug 9 '10 at 9:22
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Are you looking for a free solution or a paid solution?

Because the natural answer, if you're willing to pay the ~$100/year fee, would be to use Mobile Me Gallery, as it is also developed by Apple and therefore works with iPad. It's dead-simple to use.

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I would absolutely recommend Google's Picasa web gallery! It works on any platform, even old iPhones, and supports photos as well as videos. It's part of Picasa, so just install Picasa and share from within the program. Picasa itself runs on Mac and Windows, not so well on Linux. If you're not already using any photo manager then you will be pleased. If you already use something else, give it a test run anyway.

You can publish your web albums to anybody, or only to those whom you send a secret link, or only to those who have a login that you have approved.

Picasaweb also allows full-screen slideshows, not sure how hat would look on the iPad. There are also face recognition, photo captions, and other nice features.

http://picasa.google.com/features.html
Edit: Now linking directly to a features page.

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Gabe, I'm using Picasa and Picasa Web Albums for the exact same purpose as what you're looking for. No iPads in my family, but even my granny of 92 years has just gotten a laptop. And even she "gets" the links to Picasa Albums that I email her. Win! – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Aug 9 '10 at 6:23
Regarding emailing links: You can even copy the "start slideshow" link and e-mail that, so the recipient doesn't even need to click anything in the browser. Works like a charm on Windows, but again, not sure about iPad. – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Aug 9 '10 at 7:08
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In the end, I wound up going with a combination of Vimeo and Posterous: uploading videos to Vimeo, then embedding them in Posterous, and sending photos directly to Posterous. The Vimeo HTML5 embedder works great on the iPad.

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