Easiest photo upload site ever.

[Michael Beckman]

http://min.us

Drag and drop a photo from Windows. Simple.

[ccmanuals]

I love it. Thanks!!!

[David G]

Do you know how easy it is to go from your digital camera to the upload site?

[SMARTINSEN]

Nice, but it took a while to download. I will try to play with the zip application.

[Michael Beckman]

Do you know how easy it is to go from your digital camera to the upload site?

Open the camera's picture folder, drag to website. Or copy to your computer first, then drag.

[stevebaby]

http://min.us

Drag and drop a photo from Windows. Simple.

Thank you Michael. This has saved me an enormous amount of frustration already. No more Photobucket!

[Captain Intrepid]

Testing...

[Michael Beckman]

Seems like their server is pretty slow to upload and download. Hopefully fixed soon.

[Uncle Duke]

FWIW - their "Terms of Service" seem very reasonable - nothing funny there at all. There is, of course, the hated "subject to change without notice", but that's pretty standard and accepted now.
Looks nice!

[skipper68]

"If your seeing this message your browser is not fully supported" I Swear my PC was made by Fred Flintstone& Barney Rubble..... I was told at the last EEK!! help my PC session,that if the earth was the available memmory,you have a speck of sand.

[Michael Beckman]

IE doesn't support all HTML5 functions yet. Firefox works great.

[Bruce Taylor]

Fast!

[Flying Orca]

Well, that works a treat. Nice find, Michael.

[skipper68]

Not fast on my dial up!!!!! UGH! As I post this..a speck of pix..

[pcford]

Yet once again....you are likely already paying for a place to put your "pics", photos and other images. Almost all ISPs give you space on a web server; you can use this to upload photos. If you are bright enough to build a boat or to do serious repair work, then you are smart enough to figure out how to do this.

I cannot understand why you guys use these fly by night places and put all images at risk when the image upload place goes out of business. Which it seems they usually do. And when they do, none of the paths to your images will be correct...you will have to go back and change them all.

Images can be transferred to your web server with drag and drop ease with a freeware ftp client like Filezilla.

You guys persist in trying get another image upload joint when you have a truly reliable place at your fingertips and that you are ALREADY PAYING FOR! Don't understand it; it's one of the great mysteries of life on the Wooden Boat Forum...that and the question of whether such an improbable carbon-based life form as Donn actually exists.

[pcford]

Perhaps, if you were on active duty in Afghanistan, at a Forward Operating Base, sitting in an unlit, wooden "telephone booth" with guys in line behind you standing there with frozen sand blowing in their faces, no prepaid ISP storage, you'd be interested in a super quick, simple way to send photos home. F#ck#ng pismire.

Right. What percentage would you think of Wooden Boat Forum denizens comprise the "Forward Operating Base" cohort? I'll give you a few minutes to approximate that number.

Even a 'bagger could figure out how to use a web server to store images. But not you, Milo.

[Yeadon]

This is a fun thread.

Good to see Beckman around.

[pcford]

This is a fun thread.

don't you dare to put your oar in, yeadon.

[pcford]

Look, I'm just asking a basic question. You decided to p!ss your bile all over this thread, even politicizing it. Obviously you can't answer the question. A very good day to you sir, I'm sure.

Politics in the Bilge!! Quelle horreur! This is a sure sign of the end of days!!

Use a fly by night image hosting service and lose the images or use your web host account and keep them...it's up to you. I know which one I choose. Your Mileage May Vary.

[Yeadon]

Anything under the high tide line is open to the public, and you, pcford, most certainly are generally found below the high tide line.

And this ...

Perhaps, if you were on active duty in Afghanistan, at a Forward Operating Base, sitting in an unlit, wooden "telephone booth" with guys in line behind you standing there with frozen sand blowing in their faces, no prepaid ISP storage, you'd be interested in a super quick, simple way to send photos home. F#ck#ng pismire.

... was hilarious. It's almost like McCain is running for president again.

[pcford]

I will give Milo this...He is a bit of a poet.

And....I own the tidelands.

[Hwyl]

I have no idea how to use my ISP for storage, and I have built boats and repaired a few. I don't care about photobucket losing my images because they're on various home based storage devices.

[pcford]

I have no idea how to use my ISP for storage, and I have built boats and repaired a few. I don't care about photobucket losing my images because they're on various home based storage devices.

Of course. But if the latest photo image joint goes belly-up, anyone looking at an old post here...which seems to occur frequently...will not see your image. That's the problem.

[Garret]

Yet once again....you are likely already paying for a place to put your "pics", photos and other images. Almost all ISPs give you space on a web server; you can use this to upload photos. If you are bright enough to build a boat or to do serious repair work, then you are smart enough to figure out how to do this.

I cannot understand why you guys use these fly by night places and put all images at risk when the image upload place goes out of business. Which it seems they usually do. And when they do, none of the paths to your images will be correct...you will have to go back and change them all.

Images can be transferred to your web server with drag and drop ease with a freeware ftp client like Filezilla.

You guys persist in trying get another image upload joint when you have a truly reliable place at your fingertips and that you are ALREADY PAYING FOR! Don't understand it; it's one of the great mysteries of life on the Wooden Boat Forum...that and the question of whether such an improbable carbon-based life form as Donn actually exists.

I won't take offense, as the previous poster did, for several reasons. First & foremost, that's what I do - but I'm a geek.

To learn requires the desire & time to do so. I've learned because it's part of my job. Others have different jobs & talents - many I'm jealous of. Can I produce a beautiful table/boat/whatever-many-here-can-do? Sure - if I had the time to learn how.

Compare the steps. The sites mentioned above allow a user to open a site, drag a picture on to it & get back a URL. Minutes in the way of a learning curve, seconds in the doing.

I open FileZilla (after downloading it), connect to my website (having already set up the IP address, UserID & Password), browse to the folder on my computer that contains the pic, browse to/create the folder where I want it to go on the site, upload it & then have to figure out the URL for the pic. Now I know it's www.automatesoftware.com/pics/picname.jpg, but how many others will figure that out without quite a bit of study?

So - I'd say it's a matter of how you want to spend your time. I tell my clients that using software I create is like running a chainsaw. They have to know how to put gas & oil in it, start it & tension/replace the chain (sharpening is optional - as most will make a complete mess of the chain;-). It's my job to rebuild the engine, etc.

Additionally, many ISP's (Comcast for example) do not necessarily include FTP-able space with their basic package. This means many would have to pay extra.

Finally - do you have a car/truck with an automatic? One that doesn't have a manual choke? Do you take the car/truck to a repair shop? If you do, does that make you lazy or stupid?

[pcford]

I open FileZilla (after downloading it), connect to my website (having already set up the IP address, UserID & Password), browse to the folder on my computer that contains the pic, browse to/create the folder where I want it to go on the site, upload it & then have to figure out the URL for the pic. Now I know it's www.automatesoftware.com/pics/picname.jpg, but how many others will figure that out without quite a bit of study?

Much of the above you need to do once...after that...in Filezilla..or whatever, you would drag and drop your image to the appropriate folder then enter the url in the Wooden Boat Forum....if you want you could double check...enter yourwebsite.com/yourimagefolder/yourimagename.jpg in your browser. Really does not seem too onerous in order to assure the safety of the paths.

I am not a geek, much less a programmer. Some people just refuse to go outside their comfort zone.

[Hwyl]

...will not see your image. That's the problem.

Pre empting Tim Y, there are many who would not want to see my image.

[pcford]

Pre empting Tim Y, there are many who would not want to see my image.

I will take your word for it; it seems your problems are over.

Please don't mention that wiseguy yeadon.

[pcford]

Or like Obama has "surged" your son's reserve unit to some desolate, remote Forward Operating Base in a desperate gamble to win the GWOT before 2012.

Yes, it all comes back to Obama, doesn't it?

[Hwyl]

There we go, my image, photobucket and a Milo approved politician

[Paul Pless]

+ 1

[pcford]

There we go, my image, photobucket and a Milo approved politician

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Obviously, you can't mean Bush1. He was a more or less sane for a Republican. Certainly not Milo-approved. And I don't know the guy in the Bowdoin hat. Can you tell me?

[Donn]

A Donn-approved politician also.

[pcford]

Looks like Milo has deleted his contributions and gone home.

Thanks for playing the game, Milo!

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Yet once again....you are likely already paying for a place to put your "pics", photos and other images. Almost all ISPs give you space on a web server; you can use this to upload photos. If you are bright enough to build a boat or to do serious repair work, then you are smart enough to figure out how to do this.

I cannot understand why you guys use these fly by night places and put all images at risk when the image upload place goes out of business. Which it seems they usually do. And when they do, none of the paths to your images will be correct...you will have to go back and change them all.

Images can be transferred to your web server with drag and drop ease with a freeware ftp client like Filezilla.

You guys persist in trying get another image upload joint when you have a truly reliable place at your fingertips and that you are ALREADY PAYING FOR! Don't understand it; it's one of the great mysteries of life on the Wooden Boat Forum...that and the question of whether such an improbable carbon-based life form as Donn actually exists.

What is also missing is the manipulation of the photo from the camera's native size to a size suitable for posting on the forum.

[pcford]

What is also missing is the manipulation of the photo from the camera's native size to a size suitable for posting on the forum.

How hard is that? Any PC will have basic tools to manipulate the "pics." Is it so hard that it obviates the need to preserve the workable url to the image. I don't think so.

[halflin]

Coming out of my comfort zone for a minute, I've got hundreds of photies I could post up - just about every boat on the east coast of Scotland,
I have tried to post these, with help from no less an expert than our very own BrianW, star of Alaska, Afghanistan & every other archipeligo in between!

All of this to no avail. I canny sell stuff on ebay 'cause I canny upload a picture.

Believe me, a fortune awaits the guy/girl who comes up with a way of up-loading that actually works ,for us lesser mortals.

Now I've got a sore head trying to type this in a wee box.

Happy thanksgiving to you all!

[Milo Christensen]

I don't know why I'm doing this, but I apologize to the forum for my testiness and bad language, I had just missed a Skype call from my son, in said poetically freezing unlit wooden phone booth after he had been waiting in line for an hour in a minor sandstorm. It's harder than I thought to have a kid over there and not be able to just call him up and chat him up like I would if he was anywhere a cell phone actually worked. Missing his call on Thanksgiving was really hard, but at least I got an email.

But back to your regularly scheduled pcford and yeadon show, you two carry on with the excoriations and flagellations, I still have some skin left in the game.

[S/V Laura Ellen]

How hard is that? Any PC will have basic tools to manipulate the "pics." Is it so hard that it obviates the need to preserve the workable url to the image. I don't think so.

I didn't say it was hard, but it is one very necessary step that you neglected to add to your instructions showing how easy it was. It does sound very simple when you neglect to add half the necessary steps.

[pcford]

Coming out of my comfort zone for a minute, I've got hundreds of photies I could post up - just about every boat on the east coast of Scotland,
I have tried to post these, with help from no less an expert than our very own BrianW, star of Alaska, Afghanistan & every other archipeligo in between!

All of this to no avail. I canny sell stuff on ebay 'cause I canny upload a picture.

Believe me, a fortune awaits the guy/girl who comes up with a way of up-loading that actually works ,for us lesser mortals.

Now I've got a sore head trying to type this in a wee box.

Happy thanksgiving to you all!

A couple hours doing some mildly geekish stuff and you will have it. I am sure there there are many tutorials on the web that explain how to post images without using a here today-gone tomorrow hosting service.

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, sir...my great grandparents were from Wigtown...I know that it's not the real Scotland. But it's a great place for midges!

[pcford]

I didn't say it was hard, but it is one very necessary step that you neglected to add to your instructions showing how easy it was. It does sound very simple when you neglect to add half the necessary steps.

You can do this in literally seconds. Totally trivial.

[pcford]

I wonder what the average age here is. Youngsters seem to take to this stuff easily. Geezers just accept the fact that it is too complicated.

[halflin]

OK, i've accessed min.us thro' google, opened up a photo album, tried to simply "drag & Drop" but this removes my copy of the photo from the album, If i go ahead & do this shall I lose this picture from my computer?

Come on guys leave the turkey for a minute & help out. C'mon the guys over average age.

[Donn]

Try dragging with the starboard mouse button. It should give you a copy or move option. Select copy.

[pcford]

OK, i've accessed min.us thro' google, opened up a photo album, tried to simply "drag & Drop" but this removes my copy of the photo from the album, If i go ahead & do this shall I lose this picture from my computer?

It copies your image.

A question please, sir. I know you don't have Turkey Day in Scotland...but I have heard a lot about Scottish cuisine. Is it true that Scottish food can be seen as a series of dares?

[S/V Laura Ellen]

You can do this in literally seconds. Totally trivial.

Again, I didn't say it was hard. Each step is relatively simple , but you do need to link them all together.
You also neglect to mention that some (many?) ISP have a very small amount of free space provided with the internet package (5MB in my case). No when that is full you have some decisions to make. Do you delete older files or purchase more space at additional cost? Again, just more thing to consider, that just a few simple steps, for people that aren't computer savvy (and don't bare to be).

[Yeadon]

Here's something I like about Flickr ... it's searchable, and I can see what my friends and some of the friendlier members of my family post there. They snag some interesting photos.

For instance, here's something that showed up recently on my flickr homepage ...



And this ...



And this ...



I also get a kick out of seeing other people's photos of Big Food. Every year I put the boat down on the CWB docks for a few weeks, and within days I can search CWB ... and there are suddenly perfectly lovely photos of the World's Greatest Peapod®.


(Food is way in the back watching the show, obviously wandering aimlessly.)

Some of these sites are about more than simply storage, though it's true, I doubt the 'baggers get that either.

Incidentally, where are all your photos, Pat? We the people of WBF would like to search them.
Second question: Does "teabagger" still make you snicker?

[pcford]

Again, I didn't say it was hard. Each step is relatively simple , but you do need to link them all together.
You also neglect to mention that some (many?) ISP have a very small amount of free space provided with the internet package (5MB in my case). No when that is full you have some decisions to make. Do you delete older files or purchase more space at additional cost? Again, just more thing to consider, that just a few simple steps, for people that aren't computer savvy (and don't bare to be).

I am fairly certain that computers and the internet are here to stay...one should learn to use necessary tools.

I know it can be frustrating. Last spring at work it took me days (DAYS!) to figure out why I could not burn a DVD. But loading an image on a web server is something even the worst technophobe should be able to master in a couple hours. And that's generous.

5 MBs is indeed a small amount. But it is enough for a few dozen images.

[pcford]

Incidentally, where are all your photos, Pat? We the people of WBF would like to search them.
Second question: Does "teabagger" still make you snicker?

I would prefer to not have my private life exposed on such a dubious medium as exists here.

I have posted videos. Including one of you and Big Food. The time you showed up empty-handed, yet came on board, drank and ate and even cadged a crash on Syrene.

Teabaggers are born comedians. They will seem ridiculous even to themselves very shortly.

[Paul Pless]

And this ...

are these your plans for your grandma's galaxy?

[Hwyl]

. And I don't know the guy in the Bowdoin hat. Can you tell me?

A delivery skipper of some repute, trying to be a Gwr Bonhedig.


On the photoposting issue, I respect your opinion, but you are a minority of one it appears.

Milo good wishes to your son.