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[Guide] Image Hosting - The Easy Way

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soopahfly:
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
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. 


In here you'll see a folder called Public.



Drop your pictures in there, and you'll see a blue circle.  Wait until this goes green, then it's synchronised with Dropbox online. 


Right click on the image, go to Dropbox, then public link.


Paste that link on the forum using the usual img tags, and you have free hosting.

bear:
What I am using (plus my own .com)

bear:
We could have shared tekforums folder for other stuff than pictures :)

addictweb:
This is what I do as well, fantastically easy! Love my dropbox.

neXus:
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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