As much as I enjoyed being one of the trendy Internet hipsters that used Flickr, the crappy restrictions have totally turned me off. If not being able to upload as many photos and albums as I wanted wasn’t enough, the page full of ads when I logged in, was. I know that I could have avoided all the crap if I had a paid account, but why would I want to pay for a service I won’t be using as much as I should?
I decided instead to go with Gallery2, a php based image gallery script that runs on my own server. I don’t have to worry about any restrictions, and it has a module system that allows me to expand the functionality.
In all honesty, I really just liked Flickr because of it’s tagging. When you upload a picture, you can tag it, or enter individual keywords that allow people to find your pictures by searching by tag. I could search for images tagged with “birds” and would hopefully be presented with pictures of birds. I know it’s just searching by keywords, but tagging is how we have to say it in Web2.0 speak. Anyway, I was thinking of a cool idea to give the best part of Flickr to all other image hosting platforms.
If someone was to write a tagging module for a specific image hosting script, like Gallery2, that after an image was uploaded and tagged, would send a ‘ping’ to a website running an indexing service. This ‘ping’ will send the uploaded image links and associated tags, and would then organize all the links to pictures with their tags in a database. Then when someone visits the site and searches a tag, it’ll search it’s database and present the viewer with links to images relevant to their search. This allows people to find pictures all over the web, using any compatible open-source image hosting applications, not just on one annoying site.
Anyway, view My Gallery!
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Theoretically it could be done using the xml-rpc stuff that is used for trackbacks and the like, but I’m still trying to figure it of that out at the mo’ to implement automatic pinging into my weblog (I have to hand-ping with pingomatic.com).
Posted 10 Jan 2006 at 5:27 am ¶Jim, do you have an suggestions on good software for burning DVDs. I’d to make exact copies with extras and all.
Posted 10 Jan 2006 at 6:08 pm ¶The simplest way would be to use Shrinkto5. It’s just easy point and click. You’ll need the additional plugin to burn to DVD using the same program…it’s only $5. Otherwise you can just use Nero. If you want something completely free and a little more extensive, use DVDShrink. Is your email your AIM?
Posted 11 Jan 2006 at 3:54 am ¶Nope, my IM is arq101@yahoo.com or arq101@hotmail.com
Posted 11 Jan 2006 at 7:45 am ¶I read some reviews on shrinkto5 and people seem to be pretty on satisfied. Is that what you use? I tried it and quickly got the encrypted error, even though I donated the $5 and installed the dll. I guess I’ll try the DVDshrink.
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