Posts Tagged With: images
· August 5, 2008 at 5:05 am · Free Hosting
Always in search of the next best thing in free hosting, I happened to run across rapidpik. Now I have only played with it for a little ‘bit, but it could very well be the simplest uploading tool with the most features.
You should know the basic song and dance by now. You choose your picture, you upload it and you can share it. This service is much of the same. Once you upload the image you are given the option to “edit” it. Only editing you can do for now is changing the name.
Once you have done that, you are given the final result as a URL. You can check out my test one one to see an example of the final product in action: http://rapidpik.com/show/4406/jd9gf
Some of the nice features here are that you can share the image using a number of social services, you can view the image in all kinds of different sizes and you also get a flash player (which comes in handy if you upload multiple images at one time). So if your looking for another free image host to add to your favorites - give rapidpik a shot.
· July 9, 2008 at 5:51 am · Hot Web Topics, Online Tools
It is official, I spend too much time checking Plurk. This is why you should too!
The Rewards of Being a Good Plurker
The "rewards" feature of Plurk is very interesting too. You can get a little star by your name if you achieve a certain goal. Also, certain customizations (such as page styles) are not available to you until your Karma number has reached a certain point.
Go Out and Do Something Creative!
A great inspiration as well is the status messages you can pick from. You have:
freestyle, loves, likes, shares, gives, hates, wants, wishes, has, will, asks, was, feels, thinks, says, and is
Speaking of inspiration, seeking that great conversation starter?
- Messages of "good morning" seem to go over well with your following…
- Random messages really do the trick, create snippets from your brain do wonders too.
- You can’t forget the plugs for your own site content or interesting links you have found on the Web.
- Plurk is much more social than the other status and micro-blogs out there. Many more replies here and much more feedback to be had if you just ask.
Share Your Photos and Videos with Everybody!
You can share photos too, just make sure that link your posting ends with a .gif, .jpg or .png. Plurk will automatically generate thumbnailed images for you and open them up inside of Plurk when somebody clicks on them. The same is done for YouTube videos too.
What Makes Plurk So Different?
The timeline is what sets Plurk apart from the competitors. This gives you a unique view of all the messages from your friend that may seem a little odd at first, but you quickly catch on. You also have the option to view all the new message, or mark all messages as read.
Maybe it is just me, but Plurkers seem to be a lot more friendly too. They are all looking for replies of their own, so they might be more willing to stop by your personal Plurk page and say, "Hello!". Looking for a friend? Feel free to click here and add me!
When push comes to shove, Plurk really is becoming a favorite stop for me (or several stops depending on the speed of the day) and I wish them the best of luck in the future.
· June 27, 2008 at 5:47 am · Online Tools
There is another neat web application that has caught my eye this week. Kwout allows you to "quote" a part of a web page by cutting out a piece of it to post to your own web site. You can post to Flickr, Tumblr or your web site with the easy to use embed code when your done.
To check out a demo of the service, try out this link:
http://kwout.com/grab?address=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mitchkeeler.com
Left-click and drag over the area you wish to cut out, or shrink and enlarge the image all together. The end result looks like this:
Give Kwout a shot next time you need to do a quick snapshot from the Web.
· June 5, 2008 at 5:44 am · Online Tools, Web Development
As a quick and easy way to grab a screenshot of any web site out there, SnapCasa does a pretty good job.
There are several tools out there that get the job done so the secret to being successful at this it to be quick. SnapCasa passes thus far in that regard.
Here is a little more about the service from those who developed it:
Take web page snapshots and website thumbnails of any site with SnapCasa. Place a simple img tag in your HTML page and our website thumbnail generator will provide a snapshot for you. Increase site traffic and click-through rate by including snapshots on your website.
Where most of these sites fall apart is that they are slower than me hitting the “print screen” button and then cropping the image and resizing myself. I am happy to say that SnapCasa does not fall victim to that issue.
They do an awesome job thus far and hopefully (unlike some others out there) will continue to get better over time. SnapCasa is my new home for getting a faster web site screenshot.
· February 2, 2008 at 10:54 am · Free Hosting
UpPush.com is yet another of many free file hosting services out there that touts itself as being for “everybody”. They support .jpg, .gif, .png, .tiff, and .bmp uploads too so that almost covers all of your basic image formats.
The only regulations mentioned is “no adult content” which is reasonable and they are also the sister site to FileBig.com - a web site reviewed here a few days ago. UpPush is definitely worth checking out if you need a free image hosting resource that is both quick and easy to use.
· January 3, 2008 at 6:31 am · Software Help
Looking for a replacement to your favorite burning application? There are many out there, but a new one to catch me by the nose and take me for a ride is BurnAware Free Edition. The package of disk burning tools is simple, but has enough to make it powerful enough to replace some of the classic crapfests that you can buy.
Thanks to companies bundling over thirty or forty different tools in with the big burning sofware packages (I’m looking at you Nero) I have been left to look at BurnAware Free Edition as an alternative. What does it deliver? Read the rest of this entry »
Always in search of the next best thing in free hosting, I happened to run across rapidpik. Now I have only played with it for a little ‘bit, but it could very well be the simplest uploading tool with the most features.
