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Chat => Guides & Projects => Topic started by: soopahfly on October 17, 2011, 20:12:41 PM
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After seeing people having issues recently with Imageshack, Photobucket, Flickr etc, I've decided to write this guide to help you host images for free.
You will need :
A Computer running Linux, Windows or OS X.
The Internets
Dropbox (http://db.tt/JAVy7RW)
Some cool pictures.
Guide.
Download and install Dropbox on your computer.
You can either google for it or use the link I've provided above.
I'd appreciate it if you used my link, as it classes as a referral and I get 250mb more space each time!
Once Dropbox has installed, you will have a folder on the computer under Documents.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7591857/Pictures/Dropbox%20Guide/folderstructure.PNG)
In here you'll see a folder called Public.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7591857/Pictures/Dropbox%20Guide/folderstructure2.PNG)
Drop your pictures in there, and you'll see a blue circle. Wait until this goes green, then it's synchronised with Dropbox online.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7591857/Pictures/Dropbox%20Guide/blue%20circle.PNG)
Right click on the image, go to Dropbox, then public link.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7591857/Pictures/Dropbox%20Guide/Dropbox-Copy-Public-Link.png)
Paste that link on the forum using the usual img tags, and you have free hosting.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7591857/Pictures/Dropbox%20Guide/forumlink.PNG)
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What I am using (plus my own .com)
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We could have shared tekforums folder for other stuff than pictures :)
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This is what I do as well, fantastically easy! Love my dropbox.
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Bear, I think you just have hit on a REALLY good idea.
Everyone should put down their dropbox accounts and all of us share a tek folder. Of course some rules will need to apply such as max file size and use so people not screw with all our bandwidth etc but it will be a great tool for tek.
I now am also on iCloud for all my contacts, emails etc.
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One of my customers has just lost a metric f*cktonne of stuff from the iCloud.
He's not a happy bunny.
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One of my customers has just lost a metric f*cktonne of stuff from the iCloud.
He's not a happy bunny.
I am not doing photo's etc yet till things settle but a lot of people are being caught out by iCould settings and what it means and the either or sync options etc.
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Been using dropbox for my image hosting for a while, love it :)
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I got the hump and deleted my Dropbox account when they changed the file ownership T&Cs. After a few thousand people deleted Dropbox changed their T&Cs and emailed out; I tried to set my account back up but went from 10GB to the standard 2GB :(
I now use the free ViriginMedia tool for offsite backup and SpiderOak for cloud sharing. SpiderOak is not as good as Dropbox but it gets the job done.
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I got the hump and deleted my Dropbox account when they changed the file ownership T&Cs. After a few thousand people deleted Dropbox changed their T&Cs and emailed out; I tried to set my account back up but went from 10GB to the standard 2GB :(
I now use the free ViriginMedia tool for offsite backup and SpiderOak for cloud sharing. SpiderOak is not as good as Dropbox but it gets the job done.
All it was was wording which is on many sites and software to cover their ass, they quickly re-worded it. Same thing still in reality but made people feel better. Crazy really.
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quickly re-worded it
Yeap, as masses of people began voting with their feet.
Sometimes clarification of language is all that's needed. Legal Contract and License language is designed to provide the vendor with as much cover and power as is possible. For this reason Licenses always tends toward the vague and ambiguous in an attempt to both grab ownership of (IP, data, whatever) whilst covering the vendor's liability (data loss, theft, etc) at the same time. It's for this reason that most large software deals come with large legal teams to "iron" out the contracts; consumers don't tend to have the same resources at their disposal.
I don't hold it against Dropbox, just wished I had my 10GB back :p