Google+ has free unlimited storage of images but only at 2048 px. You can pay for >5GB of images at greater resolution. Android g+ has an automatic picture upload feature.
--Doug On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to find a "cloud" service for images - problem is, I'd got > approximately 300GB of images going back to 2001. Some duplication, but > mostly lots of RAW files. Dropbox wants $500/year. I need a more affordable > solution Any ideas? > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arlo Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R files), >> and now I use it as the central storage location for all my photos - they >> go straight from the card (which is then cleared to make room) to Dropbox >> through it's automatic transfer function. I have had no problems, although >> the occasional horror story of individual files being lost without a trace >> has prompted me to start uploading them to a photoblog. >> I use Chrome sync[h] but because the computers I use are generally >> somewhat slow (especially with the number of tabs I am in the habit of >> opening) I don't often use the extensions that are synchronized. I am not >> impressed with the bookmark sync[h], as old folders that have been deleted >> on one computer are often restored from another. Then again, I have >> somewhat given up hope on keeping track of things I want to investigate >> with bookmarks anyway, as I create just too many. To-do lists have >> supplanted them for the most part; I still use Chrome's "save this window >> as a folder-full of bookmarks" function to save a browsing/work session for >> a time when my computer is less bogged down. >> For the most part, though, I have been trying to eliminate the need for >> backups altogether. As a student with not much budget for purchasing >> memory, and one that uses temporarily loaned computers and ones that break >> after only a year or two of use, I find it much easier to use online >> services for most program and data storage - using Google Docs rather than >> Word or Open Office, for instance. It makes collaboration and sharing a lot >> easier, too - I can worry less about file formats. To pick another example, >> instead of using iTunes or WinAmp or VLC (although I also have the latter >> for miscellaneous purposes) with a music library I use Grooveshark. >> There are still many things that need to be offline due to the paucity of >> Internet access in my house and sometimes at school, but many things can >> just be re-found - it is easier for me to re-download my ebooks, and >> various programs (Pidgin, GIMP, Inkscape, Notepad++, Chrome of course, a >> tuner program, and others including those mentioned above [Dropbox and >> VLC]) than to find and transfer them on a jumpdrive or such. However, I >> noticed I have also taken increasingly to putting all my files in one place >> - a folder on the desktop - rather than using My Documents. I even run >> programs that do not need to alter the registry and therefore self-install, >> such as tkMOO, from the desktop. With all this centrally located it is >> easier to pick up and move shop should I need to. >> And now I have a website I can put stuff I don't mind being public in one >> place, too. >> >> This all might be oblique to your question since I am not using the pay >> Dropbox, or Dropbox in a big way at all. >> >> -Arlo James Barnes >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > *Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to > dance in the rain.* > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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