Hi Brian, Sounds interesting. Thanks for bring it to our attention. Like Peter, I too am looking for inexpensive hosting/photo storage. I will have to check this out.
-Pat On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Brian Walters<[email protected]> wrote: > G'day all > > Peter's enquiry about cheap web hosting made me think about Dropbox as > an option. I don't know if anyone else will find this useful but I've > started using it and it works well. > > Dropbox is basically an online file storage / file sharing service but > it can also be used to host photo galleries and websites. If your ISP > is a bit stingy with your free website storage, Dropbox could be just > the thing! > > You install the Dropbox software on your computer and during the > installation the software creates a special "My Dropbox" folder. > Anything placed in that folder gets automatically uploaded in the > background to the Dropbox storage (assuming you have Dropbox running). > If, say, you create a web gallery with JAlbum or Lightroom and you copy > that gallery into the Dropbox public folder, it gets uploaded and > becomes publicly available for viewing. Here's a small, quick and dirty > gallery I created with JAlbum and placed in the Dropbox public folder > (these are just snapshots of no great interest to PDMLers - it's just > for illustrative purposes): > > http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1370864/album-200609/index.html > > The 'My Dropbox" folder also contains a "Photos" sub-folder. If you're > not fussy about having total control over how a web gallery looks, you > can just copy image files into that sub-folder and Dropbox will upload > them and create a publicly viewable gallery for you. > > Here's the Dropbox link: > > http://www.getdropbox.com/ > > The free account with Dropbox gets 2GB of ad-free storage. There are > paid options to access greater storage but you can develop very large > galleries and websites with 2GB! There may be other similar systems but > Dropbox is the first one of its type that I've come across. > > Dropbox runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It's still at version 0.6 but > I've not seen any problems in using it on Win XP and Vista. > > > Now back to our regular programming...... > > > Cheers > > Brian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
