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When you shoot, save and organize a lot of photos there's always the challenge of finding the best way for this never ending task! I recently discovered an app called Trunx that I've been using for a short while. I contacted Sandra Ponce de Leon, VP of Marketing, to find out more about Trunx. After you finish the interview, be sure to read my comments on my first impressions.

Sandra:  Trunx is a mobile app storage solution for all of your visual media. Trunx allows you to import photos from your phone, desktop, social networks and Dropbox to keep them safely secured in our cloud. Trunx aims to be the world’s biggest memory bank by providing fast, easy, organized access to all of your memories regardless of where they may currently reside.

Sandra:  Trunx is different in a number of ways. We use a hybrid method of encrypting our users’ data, for one; by separating the encryption key from the storage. In leveraging this method, your pictures are far more protected than other solutions in market. Secondly, we are offering unlimited storage until the end of the year -- no matter the size of your data, if you import it to Trunx by 2015, it will always be stored for free! Third, we really set ourselves apart with two unique features: EchoPix, pictures with sound, and SharedPix, which are collaborative photo albums. Trunx also provides several different options for viewing and finding these photos -- whether it be through our timeline view, calendar, or smart tags, Trunx has a view that makes finding any photo a breeze.

Sandra:  SharedPix is really cool. It’s an extremely useful (and fun) feature that allows you to share photos privately between friends and/or family members for a collaborative photo sharing experience. Instead of trying to figure out Facebook’s privacy settings or sending extremely large emails with attachments, SharedPix provides a simple solution to sharing bulk photos. 

What’s so cool is that SharedPix becomes a living photo album that comes alive as people continue to add their photos. I have a shared family album that has nine of my family members all over the world sharing pictures and updating us all in real time of what’s happening in their lives. Plus, I don’t have worry about clogging my social streams or annoying people with a ton of pictures from one particular event or get overloaded on baby cuteness. 

And let’s not forget to mention the fact that images on Facebook are unsafe and can even be used without your knowledge in advertising or worse yet, instances like this. 

Sandra:  Trunx will import your photos from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox as well as your desktop, flash drives, old CDs -- wherever those pictures may reside! Trunx then organizes all of yours photos by calendar year and month. It also adds smart tags to allow you to see those imported photos at a glance.

We’re happy to let you know that Trunx 3.1 is now available! You should now have no problem importing photos to Trunx from your Camera Roll. Just head over to the App Store to update your version of Trunx.

Sandra:  People have shared so many awesome uses for Trunx -- everything from the fun to the functional. We have people that submit stories about how they used EchoPix to document and record a relative’s story in their own words to people that use SharedPix as a study tool and a means to share class notes (pictures, video and EchoPix) via a shared class outline. While others use it to manage their personal records, art inspiration, recipes, #tbt posts (throwback Thursday), and so much more! We love to hear back from our users on their favorite use and would welcome readers of Art of Mob to download Trunx and share more creative Trunx ideas with us!