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   RunesageMagik
   Member

   A quick GAOTD search came up with only scattered comments about where to store photos on-line for FREE (at least at a BASIC level) as well as links just to individual pix on storage sites. Please add more hosting site links and/or concise detailed reviews, or links to on-line reviews. (preferably of FREE hosts, thankew). Credit Maizey for helping to get things rolling (in no particular order):

   Wikispaces: Billed as a place to "Create simple web pages that groups, friends, & families can edit together"

   Divshare: Billed as "the best tool on the web for storing and sharing your media and documents."

   ImageShack: online media hosting

   Photobucket: "Where millions upload and share their photos and videos."

   Flickr: Tagline- "Share your photos, Watch the World" but also known as, "The most misspelled word on Google... except maybe Goggle." Flickr and Yahoo teamed up (you knew that couldn't be good news) and a year later, those inept Yahoo techs still can't figure out a way to link photos to profile pictures. At least they killed the bug that opened private photos to the entire world.

   Grovestreet: Tagline- "Welcome to the Internet's Smartest Photo Album" It's been around quite awhile. Unfortunately, smartest doesn't mean easiest. Navigating this site is akin to being blindfolded in an Amazon rainforest with a broken GPS, a blind legless guide and a wildly spinning compass.

   Mediamax: "Gives you a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files... Get 25 GBs of FREE online storage."

   Topsecret: Proudly hosting a whopping 157 images since 2006. What the site lacks in polish may not be compensated for by the overreaching claims of Mihalism Multi Host, so irreplaceable or sensitive photos might best be stored elsewhere. Tip: the uploader is located on the home page, adding nuisance nav steps. They're joined at the hip with Freeimageparking and an X-rated site that sees about as much action as a Reno casino after a Richter magnitude 9.3 quake.

   4shared: Upload, access, share your music, video, photos... single file or entire folder. Get 5 GB of FREE space.

   Glowfoto: A "social network linking people by the photos documenting their lives; a great place share photos and build a network of friends, OR to host images for other sites like MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards." They also automate Geotagging.

   YouTube VIDEO storage: Tagline- "Broadcast Yourself" Since YT's homepage offers no substantive info unless you sign up, glean what you will from the uploader page.
   If you're the beta tester type, visit TEST TUBE, YouTube's "ideas incubator" where "YouTube engineers and developers test out recipes and concoctions that aren't quite fully baked and invite you to tell us how they're coming along."

   Imagecave: "Free Image Hosting - unlimited bandwidth and direct linking"

   Shutterfly: Linked to Target stores and Martha "Tax Crone" Stewart, you can apparently join free and get 25 FREE 4x6 prints; but in return, you'll likely pick up on the heavy-handed commercial product marketing presence on this site.

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   funkymom
   Member

   great collection, thanks!
   :D

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   copmom
   Member

   Wonderful resources! Don't forget http://www.picattic.com

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   maizeydaze
   Member

   Rune, thanks for making this list and for giving me credit. You did all the work!

   As a matter of fact, I've found some additional file storage sites. I'd been doing some more searching since Flickr let me know that my "free" file space is now full. I haven't had time to try them all out yet.

   Imgshares: Tagline - "Imgshares is an easy image hosting solution for everyone. Have you ever wanted to share a picture with a friend, or many friends, yet didn't want to go through the trouble of creating an account at other image host providers, or resorting to something as inefficient as email? With this website, you can easily upload any image from your computer and share it with anyone in the world! The image is stored on the Imgshares server indefinitely. In fact, we are currently hosting 287 images."

   Adobe Photoshop Express: Crop, rotate and tweak photos. 2 GB free space. I gave this a try when it first went online and the uploads were extremely slow. Maybe that has changed.

   MyOtherDrive.com: "MyOtherDrive.com is a free 5GB hard drive with an Explorer(r)-style interface that provides storage anywhere Internet access is available and the ability to allow access selectively to others. In addition to offering the same benefits as other photo-sharing sites, such as Yahoo, Flikr, and SmugMug, MyOtherDrive.com competes with broader file-sharing sites Kazaa and eDonkey, and even YouTube. However, MyOtherDrive.com users can specify who can see the content on their site -- a significant advantage over other "public" sites."

   ImageVenue.com: "ImageVenue.com is a free image hosting solution. It is designed for you to share digital pictures with friends, post images on message and bulletin boards and blogs. You can also hot link images from your personal website or eBay auctions. File size limit is 1.5M. You may upload as many images as you wish."

   Red Kid: "Maximum Upload File Size: 2048 KB. Image Types Allowed: jpeg, gif, png. If your image is not accessed in 100 days it is deleted automatically. Unlimited bandwidth! No registration required!"

   SnapDrive: "We host most file extensions. Your data is safe with snapdrive. Each account comes with 2gb of space! Create an Online Photo Gallery. Quickly upload code to display music and videos to your website, Myspace or Xanga profile. Create direct links to download and access files to email, instant messaging, web pages, forums and more." - Free

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   Paulga
   Member

   RunesageMagi / maizeydaze / Copmom, great list of storage sites, and just in time for
   me, had two lots of photo's on Photobucket, can still link to them, but password no longer works with either of my email addresses, tried everything apart from joining Photobucket
   forum, linking no problem, of course can not add photo's or edit because password wont work, so your list is a god send, great work.

   Paulga

   Posted 16 years ago #
6. 

   Paulga
   Member

   Signed in to Imagecave since my last post, easy to upload photos, links to photo's
   easy," well so far", have to sort out album, sometime, here is my link, touch wood,
   http://usera.imagecave.com/Paulga/ check it out, and thanks again !

   Paulga

   Posted 16 years ago #
7. 

   funkymom
   Member

   paul- thanks for sharing....again. it looks and sounds like you have a really lovely life in really lovely surroundings.
   :D

   Posted 16 years ago #
8. 

   maizeydaze
   Member

   Paulga, your welcome! I'm glad you were able to find something and it's working for you.

   Looks like you're live the life of Riley there! Or maybe the life of Dr. Doolittle? I see you have one of those self trained dogs. I've never been so lucky. :-D

   I use Photobucket for many of my photos now. Mostly for the WHAT IS IT? game. I've never had that problem but I do login almost daily.

   Posted 16 years ago #
9. 

   graylox
   Moderator

   Since they have updated/changed their software for some days, I have problems with photobucket, when I try to upload a picture. Firefox crashes each time. But it's no problem, to look at a picture or download it.

   Posted 16 years ago #
10. 

    Paulga
    Member

    Thanks folks, yep the Doctor Doolittle is a very good description, mmmm instead of Paulga,
    that big red bricked house is not mine......sadly, only use of the land for my fowl and veg garden, the house is victorian 1759 i think, 60 acres of land, 6 acres of woods,
    they allow me shooting and fishing permission, " free " well because i look after the estate plantlife, i know.....more work, makes me as hungry as a horse impossible to gain weight......sigh

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
11. 

    Paulga
    Member

    Maizeydaze, i was a tad embarrassed to include some of the photo's which were taken with an old non digital camera when i know how good your photo shots are.
    graylox, perhaps something has gone amiss with Photobucket as we both have similar problems, however in my case i presumed they noticed i had two accounts, for each email address and shut the door on me.

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
12. 

    graylox
    Moderator

    As Photobucket doesn't play with me any longer, I tried another one

    http://www.mediafire.com

    but I have problems with it. It is rather copious and not reliable or I am too...whatever. So, my next "What-is-it" will come later,
    until I found an other host.

    Posted 16 years ago #
13. 

    funkymom
    Member

    graylox- at the bottom of the upload box, in photobucket, you have an option to use the 'old uploader'. maybe that will work for you.

    Posted 16 years ago #
14. 

    graylox
    Moderator

    Yes Funky, choosing "the old uploader" with Photobucket, and installing/updating Adobe's Flash 9 player has solved my problems.
    Now the game can start.

    Posted 16 years ago #
15. 

    copmom
    Member

    Paulga.. great pictures .. especially like the the one titled 'fox hunting'.. how in the world did you get that pose!

    Posted 16 years ago #
16. 

    Paulga
    Member

    copmom..........ah yes " that Foxhunting Photo " to be honest i didnt take it, a friend who hunts everything on four legs took it, after a shoot ! follow my drift, i know its funny and an eyeopener but then it sinks in....! as i have a friendly fox who nearly eats from my hand i could not shoot at a fox, and am backing away bit by bit from my fox in case he tries making friends with the wrong person, still i like that picture, if you send it to someone by email and the heading reads, do you approve of Fox Hunting, it gets a laugh.

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
17. 

    hervens
    Member

    Check out http://www.thefilegarage.com

    Ive been using it for a while, and i loved it!
    They provide unlimited Bandwidth, Images stay forever, hot linking available and no registration required

    Give it a try.

    Posted 16 years ago #
18. 

    Paulga
    Member

    hervens...........got that link, will check it out, as you can see from the above posts i am having a wee spot of bother with Photobucket, however i am testing out Imagecave at present, looking for that special site ! touch wood, welcome to the forum !

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
19. 

    graylox
    Moderator

    Paulga did you read how my photobucket-problem was solved ?

    Posted 16 years ago #
20. 

    Paulga
    Member

    graylox..........I did indeed and after trying to log in for about 30 mins i gave up and signed in with Imagecave.com, however i intend returning to try the 'old uploader'
    and Adobe Flash 9 as you seem to have got through that way, "not forgetting funkymoms
    contribution" had to mention that as you never know who you would meet in the Mens Section of late ??? thanks again,

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
21. 

    Paulga
    Member

    graylox.........dont know if the "Mens Section" will be back to normal for a long time !
    it hit me as i entered, perfume ! three kinds i noted, gone were the old familiar odours of old socks,sweat after a hard days work ! stale tobacco, old beer, and toenail clippings on the floor.........well at least the trio left the place clean when they left ?

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
22. 

    maizeydaze
    Member

    Scribd is a free, web-based, document sharing community and self-publishing platform that enables anyone to easily publish, distribute, share, and discover documents of all kinds. E-books, presentations, essays, academic papers, newsletters, photo albums, school work, and sheet music are just a few of the different kinds of documents you can publish and share on Scribd.

    Scribd provides:

    * A simple yet powerful method of publishing and distributing your own electronic books and documents in a variety of formats - for free.
    * A vibrant global community of eager publishers, readers and collaborators that offer great content and constructive feedback.
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    * A secure, flexible private document managment system.

    Posted 16 years ago #
23. 

    Paulga
    Member

    Copmom........You were asking about my camera last night," this morning " so i made up a Photostory, starting from the time i left the house to walk the dogs, it will play on your Windows Media Player, or other, its 4.99mb, it took 4mins and 16secs to upload to Divshare, so of course don't be impatient waiting for it to load? the music may not appeal to you? http://www.divshare.com/download/4575047-0a3

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
24. 

    copmom
    Member

    Paulga.... that's beautiful!!!!!!! I hated for it to end! How in the world did you do that? All with that little Sony Cyber Shot camera?? I have SO many things to learn!!

    Posted 16 years ago #
25. 

    Paulga
    Member

    copmom.......i am pleased you liked it,"however short" truth is i can only give credit to the camera shots and the clarity,it is the Free Microsoft Photo Story 3 that deserves the credit, and it is very simple to use, when you import photo's its direct from your own "my pictures files" you can choose your own music from your "my music files" or the music in the program, i do like the way the program zooms on the shots making it more film like, you should download it from Microsoft or other sites, its worth it!

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
26. 

    maizeydaze
    Member

    Paulga, that's a very nice video with great pictures. But can I ask, what does this have to do with posting "FREE Image Hosting/Storage Sites"? Scratching my head...Just wondering? :)

    Posted 16 years ago #
27. 

    Paulga
    Member

    maizeydaze......ah, glad you looked at the video!mmmmm i was trying to fit it in somewhere and here was about the most suitable, then there was the Nature......thread, but my vid was lowly in comparison to what has turned up there....sigh?

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
28. 

    copmom
    Member

    Paulga, downloaded that Microsoft Photo Story 3.. thanks for telling me about it!

    Posted 16 years ago #
29. 

    Paulga
    Member

    copmom...nice one.....have fun with it,the odd thing is that i always feel that everybody already knows about what i might come out with and just say "thats an old one" i don'...t mean ME!......smile

    goodnight

    Paulga

    Posted 16 years ago #
30. 

    copmom
    Member

    But that's just it! There's so many things / programs / ways of doing things out there we just can't know them all. I'd really never heard of Photo Story before.. it's great. I've already been having fun with it. Now just need to download some music to put with my 'creations'!
    One thing I love about the forums, it does give us a chance to find out what there is, how to do it, and good advice!

    Posted 16 years ago #

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