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Batch Download Images From Image Hosting Sites

Martin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:09:06 +0000

Downloading images from image hosting sites can be a time consuming tasks if you do it manually. It usually involves clicking on the thumbnail of the image to load the full size version of it and right-clicking that to download it. If you have to do that for dozens or hundreds of images then you will be busy all day. A better solution is a tool to batch download images. Ideally a software program that would identify the links to the real images on the thumbnail page to download the full sized images.

Bilder Herunterlader is such a tool. The name is German and stands for Image Downloader (don’t worry, the interface is available in English and German). The tool is a Java application which means that it can be run not only on Windows computers but also on those running Linux. A Firefox extension is available to make it even more comfortable for Firefox users.

About 70 image hosts are already configured in the image downloader which comes with the options to configure additional hosts. The best case scenario is that you right-click a page full of thumbnails and select the Load Images With BH option in Firefox. A download selection window will pop up which can be used to deselect images that should not be downloaded and to pick the right folder for the images.

Everything has been designed to be as easy as possible. It takes just one click to add all images to the download queue of the application. Image names can be recognized automatically as well.

Not all image hosting sites are supported in the default installation and some are not configured to download the original images right away when right-clicking a page full of thumbnails. This can be added for most image hosting sites in the program’s options. It is furthermore possible to edit existing rules so that the links to the full sized images are recognized by the software application.

The best way to get an understanding of rule creation is to read the tutorial on the developers homepage and to look at a few existing rules.

There are two possible scenarios:

It is possible to discover the url of the full sized image from the thumbnail url
The url to the full image can be discovered by parsing the html source code

Both methods make use of regular expressions and it might be good to read up on regular expressions first to have a firm understanding of the concept.

Bilder Herunterlader provides sophisticated and advanced means to download images from image hosting sites. It should work on most image hosting sites and can be really helpful if you regularly download images from image hosts.

Tags: bilder herunterlader, download-images, firefox-add on, image downloads, image host, image hosting, image hosting sites

Photobucket Upload

Martin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:12:45 +0000

Photobucket is one of the most popular image hosting sites on the Internet. It is currently hosting more than 6.5 billion images on its servers. It is only natural that some users create applications that make use of the service. One of these applications is the Photobucket Upload extension for Mozilla Firefox. It has been uploaded just a day ago and is currently tagged as experimental on the Mozilla homepage. Experimental simply means that users have to log into the homepage before they may download and install the extension. Add-ons lose their experimental stage once they get enough votes from the Firefox community.

The Firefox add-on adds an option to upload any image to a Photobucket account to the Firefox right-click menu. The process is effective and simple. The user needs to be logged in or log into Photobucket during the first upload. This is not necessary again as long as is logged into the site which usually means per session or even longer.

A right-click on any image will display Upload to Photobucket entry which can be used to send the image right to the Photobucket account. The user will be notified if the upload was successful by an overlay bar on top of the page. This bar displays two additional buttons which can be used to view the uploaded image or to open the Photobucket album organizer.

The Photobucket Upload add-on can be downloaded on the Mozilla homepage.

Tags: image host, images, photobucket, photobucket tips, Photobucket Upload, picture host, pictures

Vista Flickr Uploader

Martin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:42:38 +0000

Flickr is already offering an official tool to upload images to the image hoster. The software is supporting several operating systems and another tool made by a third party has to add features that the official uploader is not supporting to have any chance to being recognized at all.

Vista Flickr Uploader is a specifically designed Flickr image uploader for Windows Vista. It makes use of the Extensible Metadata Platform support of Windows Vista. The downside is that XMP is not supported yet by Flickr which means that the only distinguishable feature that the application is offering is not supported by Flickr.

It will however be interesting if Flickr is adding support for XMP in the future. Other than that the Vista Flickr Uploader is supporting the usual features of an uploader.

Several images can be selected and uploaded at once. Each image is shown as a thumbnail in the program window. Permissions can be set so that only a certain group can access the pictures and it is possible to select one of the existing sets to add the images to it.

Tags: flickr, flickr software, flickr tip, flickr tools, flickr uploader, image host

Adobe Photoshop Express Launched

Martin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:23:36 +0000

Every company seems to think that they have to port their applications to the Internet these days. Adobe is the latest to follow this trend with the release of Adobe Photoshop Express [link] which seems to be a combination of a photo album and imaged editing application. Don’t expect it to be Photoshop on the web, it is not but it appears to be a solid web application with a nice interface.

You need to create an account before you can start uploading photos. Only the United States can be picked as the country at the moment but there does not seem to be an IP check that prevents users from other countries to signup for an account. Once the account is verified the fun begins.

Adobe Photoshop Express has two main functions. The first is to function as a photo album and the second to edit the photos that you have uploaded. Each user gets 2 Gigabytes of storage space for his images which can be sorted into different albums. Images can be uploaded from the computer or imported from Facebook, Picasa or Photobucket.

Images can be shared with the outside world by dragging them into an album that is shared. Everyone can then access the images by loading the username.photoshop.com url of the user. The shared albums of other members of the website can be browsed as well.

I’m a bit disappointed about the image editing capabilities of Adobe Photoshop Express. Only 17 different tools are available to edit the image from rotation the image to changing the hue. This function of the website will be neglected by the majority of users in my opinion. Community features are missing, there is no way to comment on images for instance and no private messaging system.

This leaves us with another image hosting service with a slick interface, nothing more, nothing less.

Tags: adobe, adobe photoshop, flickr, image host, photobucket, photoshop, picasa

Free File host List June 2006

Martin — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:09:52 +0000

I know it´s been a while since I published the last file host list. Finally, today, I decided to update the list, remove all dead services and add new services. I personally would like to know if you want me to keep the sites in the list that ask you to register before you can use their services.

The following list is divided into four main sections and contains only free file hosts. The first two sections contain lists of free general file hosts that accept files to be uploaded and downloaded to their service. Section one lists hosts that require no registration while section two lists those hosts that require registration.

Section three and four list image hosts only, you will be able to save, publish and load images to their webspace. As with the previous two sections three lists webhosts that you don´t have to register with while section four lists all hosts that require registration.

Recommended File Host:

Diino

Recommended Image Host:

Imageheap

Let us take a look at the parameters in the table:

Reg: Does the site require a registration before you can use their services ? Registration means free registration of course.

Filesize: Is there a maximum size for a single file, in Mb ? No res = no restrictions

Space: How much diskspace is allocated for the user ? If there is no registration the max filesize has been taken as max space allowed. No res = no restrictions

Bandwidth: Are there bandwidth limitations ? no res = no restrictions, d=max downloads, h=per hour

Filetypes: Are certain filetypes not allowed to be uploaded ?

Hotlinking: Does the site allow hotlinking ?

Expires: Are the files auto-deleted after a time, if yes the number of days are shown. If the number is unknown yes will be shown. Sometimes files only get deleted after inactivity for a certain time, if thats the case a “i�? is added to the number. Sometimes file get deleted after a certain number of downloads, if thats the case a “d�? is added to the number.

Free File Hosts:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Filetypes	Hotlinking	Expires
11mbit	40	40	no res	all	no	yes
Bestsharing	125	125	no res	all	?	45i
Contenttype	100	100	no res	all	img	7i
Crazefiles	50	50	no res	all	no	30i
Dropfiles Quick	50	50	no res	all	?	14i
EZ-Files	50	50	no res	all	?	31i
Filebuffer	8	8	no res	all	no	7i
File Den	10	10	?	all	no	?
Filefactory	500	500	no res	all	no	15i
Filesend	250	250	no res	all	?	30i
Filespoint	500	500	no res	all	?	30i
FreeFileUpload	50	50	fair use	all	?	30i
Freeuploader	2	50	1024	only multimedia	yes	?
Gimehost	250	250	?	all	yes	no
Mysharebox	100	100	no res	all	no	30i
MyShareFile	150	150	no res	all	?	30i
Quicksharing	500	500	no res	all	no	30i
Rapidshare	100	100	30+ hour	all	no	30i
Rapidsharing	200	200	no res	all	no	60i
Sendmefile	50	50	no res	all	no	14i
Sendspace	300	300	?	all	no	7i
Snaggys	2000	2000	999d	all	no	15i
Supload	200	200	30d	all	no	7
Turboupload	70	70	?	all	no	?
Ultrashare	250	250	150h	all	no	21i
Wirefiles	5,72	5,72	?	images, office, zip	no	30i
YourFileLink	50	50	no res	all	?	30i
Zippyvideos	20	20	?	movie	no	90i
Zupload	500	500	no res	all	no	30i

Free File Hosts with registration:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Filetypes	Hotlinking	Expires
4Shared	25	500	no res	all	no	30i
Come2store	10	no res	no res	all	no	30i
Eazyshare	300	3000	30 GB	all	?	60i
Electronic Files	10	500	1 GB	all	yes	?
Filecache	250	250	no res	all	no	?
File Den	50	500	?	all	yes	?
Filefront	no res	no res	no res	all	?	?
Files.bz	10	100	10 GB	all	yes	?
Filesupload	10	100	no res	all	yes	90i
Filexoom	100	2000	no res	all	yes	30i
Free File Hosting	50	50	5 GB	all	yes	60i
Myfilehut	20	250	10000	all	yes	30i
Picsplace	1,5	1,5	?		yes	no
Putfile	25	25	no res	image,video,audio,flash	images	180i
Savefile	60	no res	no res	all	no	14i
SigMirror	5	250	30GB	image files	yes	no

Free Image Hosts:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Hotlinking	Expires
Directupload	3	3	no res	yes	200+
Imageshack.in	0.5	0.5	?	no	30i
Paintedover	1.5	1.5	no res	yes	no
Picvault	1	1	?	yes	30i
Thefreeimagehosting	2	2	25 image	yes	40 MB
Tinypic	0,25	0,25	?	yes	no
Upload-Img	1	1	?	no	60
Uploads	2	2	?	yes	yes

Free Image Hosts with registration:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Hotlinking	Expires
Flickr	20	20+	no res	yes	no
Fotopic	no res	250	no res	yes	no
Freeimagelibrary	3	100	3000	yes	no
Imageheap	2	60	150	yes	90-120
Imagexoom	1	50	500	?	?
Myimagehosting	1	15	250	yes	no
Photoserver	no	555	1000	yes	no
Simpload	1	no	500 day	yes	?

[tags]free, host, file host, hosting, image, publish, webspace, free space, upload, upload sites, upload lists, rapidshare[/tags]

Tags: file host, file hosting, image host, image storage

Free file host list december 2005

Martin — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:20:41 +0000

I published a large file host list last month and good lots of positive and some negative feedback concerning the list. The list contained a lot of sites that allow users to upload free files to their website and share it with others. A negative aspect was that it only featured a few categories that were not that useful to find a host that suited special needs.

Therefor, I decided to compile a new list with more information available at first glance. Information besides the site name consist of the following variables.

It took me about 6 hours to compile the list, its divided into file hosts with and without registrations and image hosts with and without registrations. If you have additions let me know and I add them in the january list.

Recommended File Host:

Diino

Recommended Image Host:

Imageheap

Reg: Does the site require a registration before you can use their services ? Registration means free registration of course.
Filesize: Is there a maximum size for a single file, in Mb ? No res = no restrictions
Space: How much diskspace is allocated for the user ? If there is no registration the max filesize has been taken as max space allowed. No res = no restrictions
Bandwidth: Are there bandwidth limitations ?
Filetypes: Are certain filetypes not allowed to be uploaded ?
Hotlinking: Does the site allow hotlinking ?
Expires: Are the files auto-deleted after a time, if yes the number of days are shown. If the number is unknown yes will be shown. Sometimes files only get deleted after inactivity for a certain time, if thats the case a “i” is added to the number. Sometimes file get deleted after a certain number of downloads, if thats the case a “d” is added to the number.

Recommended Image Host:

Imageheap

Free File Hosts:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Filetypes	Hotlinking	Expires
4Shared	10	100	no res	all	no	30i
11mbit	20	no res	no res	all	no	yes
Bigupload	300	300	no res	all	no	30i
Contenttype	100	no res	no res	all	img	7i
Cyberupload	500	500	no res	all	7i	yes
Filebuffer	40	40	no res	all	no	7i
Filecabi	10	10	?	movie	no	30i
Filefactory	500	500	no res	all	no	15i
Flypicture	1	1	500	all	yes	30
Freeuploader	50	50	?	all	yes	?
Megashares	none	none	none	all	no	25i
Megaupload	250	250	no res	no	yes	30i
Mooload	500	500	no res	all	no	30i
Mysharebox	100	100	no res	all	no	30i
Mytempdir	40	40	no res	all	no	21
Picapic	40	40	?	jpg, gif, wma, mov, swf	?	?
Putfile	10	10	no res	image,video,audio,flash	img	180i
Rapidshare	100	100	30+ hour	all	no	30i
Rapidupload	300	300	no res	all	no	30i
Rapidsharing	50	50	no res	all	no	60i
Savefile	60	no res	no res	all	no	14i
Sendmefile	50	50	no res	all	no	14i
Sendover	2000	2000	no res	all	?	7i
Sendspace	1200	1200	100000	all	no	14i
Sharebigfile	300	300	no res	all	no	21i
Snaggys	500	500	999d	all	no	15i
Spreadit	500	500	no res	all	no	14
Supload	200	200	30d	all	no	7
theupload	100	100	no res	all	no	30
Turboupload	70	70	?	all	no	?
Updownloadserver	250	250	no res	all	yes	?
Uploadfront	50	50	no res	all	no	30i
Uploading	500	500	no res	all	no	30i
Uploadsend	50	50	no res	all	no	30i
Uploadtown	20	20	no res	all	no	30i
Ultrashare	30	30	no res	all	no	30i
Webfilehost	500	no res	no	zip, rar, doc, pdf, txt	no	30
Wirefiles	5,72	5,72	?	images, office, zip	no	30i
Ushareit	50	50	no res	all	no	14i
Xtrafile	250	250	no res	zip, rar, tar, gz	no	15i
Yousendit	1000	1000	no res	all	no	7 / 25d
Zippyvideos	10	10	?	movie	no	90i
zshare	100	100	no res	all	no	10i
Zupload	500	500	no res	all	no	30i

Free File Hosts with registration:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Filetypes	Hotlinking	Expires
35mb	35	35+	no res	all	no	no
Come2store	?	no res	no res	all	no	30i
Dropload	100	100	no res	all	no	7
Filecache	250	250	no res	all	no	?
Filebull	2	1000	no res	office	no	?
Filefront	no res	no res	no res	all	?	?
Files0	20	40	1000	no movie, music	?	?
Filesupload	10	100	no res	all	yes	90i
Fileupyours	no res	200	no res	all	yes	25i
Myfilehut	20	250	10000	all	yes	30i
Myfilestash	25	25	67 day	no rar,wmv,wma,mp3,mov	no	yes
Putfile	25	25	no res	image,video,audio,flash	images	180i
Ripway	30	30	15 / day	all	?	30i
Savefile	60	no res	no res	all	no	14i
Sendmefile	50	50	no res	all	no	28i
Swiftdesk	?	30	?	all	?	?
Zippyvideos	20	no res	?	movie	no	no
Picsplace	1,5	1,5	?	yes	no

Free Image Hosts:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Hotlinking	Expires
Filehost	5	5	no res	yes	?
Imageheap	2	2	no res	yes	90-120
Imageshack	1	1	100 hour	yes	no
Imagesubmit	0,75	0,75	200 day	yes	no
Imgzone	0,1	0,1	no res	yes	no
Iuploads	1	1	no res	yes	no
Myimagedepot	1	1	?	?	?
Picvault	1	1	?	yes	30i
Pureupload	2,5	2,5	yes	yes	30i
Thefreeimagehosting	2	2	25 image	yes	40 MB
Thepicturebin	1	30	300	yes	no
Tinypic	0,25	0,25	?	yes	no
Uploadimages	1	1	?	yes	no
Uploads	2	2	?	yes	yes
Xs	1,5	1,5	?	yes	?

Free Image Hosts with registration:

Name	Filesize	Space	Bandwidth	Hotlinking	Expires
Albumtown	no res	100	2000	yes	no
Fotopic	no res	250	no res	yes	no
Freefotofile	0,2	25	300	yes	no
Freeimagelibrary	3	100	3000	yes	no
Imagedropbox	0,25	10	1000	yes	no
Imagexoom	1	50	500	?	?
Myimagebuddy	10	10	no res	yes	no
Myimagehosting	1	15	250	yes	no
Onfinite	5	5	?	yes	no
Photoserver	no	555	1000	yes	no
Realimagehost	0,128	1,5	?	yes	60
Simpload	1	no	500 day	yes	?

[tags]free, host, file host, hosting, image, publish, webspace, free space, upload, upload sites, upload lists, rapidshare[/tags]

Tags: file host, free file host, image host

Free File Host List November 2005

Martin — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:31:30 +0000

I present you the free file host list for November 2005. Free File Hosting allows you to upload certain file types to Free File Hosts, this is ideal for storage or trading with your friends. Maybe you would like to upload files that you also need at work, or downloaded a great movie file that you want to share with some of your friends and don´t want to send it to each of them. The list is divided into general free file hosting sites (upload sites)and free image hosting sites. I added 6 new image file hosting sites and 13 general file hosting sites to the list.

Its of course perfect for our search strings that let you find various files like mp3, movies, images aso. I added the links to the most prominent topics that we wrote on the subject. I suggest you take a look at these as well if you have not already. New entries have been marked with *new* in front of them for your convenience.

Please note that the megabyte range could mean the maximum file size OR the maximum size of the account.

1. Searching through files on upload sites general image movie etc
2. Using Google to find movies
3. Using Google to find free mp3 files
4. Using Google to find free ebooks

Recommended File Host:

Diino

Recommended Image Host:

Imageheap

file hosting sites

0-10 megabyte:

*new* http://www.albumtown.com/
http://www.bestupload.com
http://www.flypicture.com
http://www.uploadx.net
http://www.webfilehost.com
http://www.wirefiles.com
http://www.zippyvideos.com

10-100 megabyte:

http://www.11mbit.de
http://www.35mb.com
http://www.da_insane.boo.pl/d/upload/
http://www.filebuffer.net
http://www.filecabi.net/free-video-hosting.html
http://www.filesupload.com
http://www.fileupyours.com
http://www.freeuploader.com
http://www.myfilestash.com
http://www.mytempdir.com
http://www.picapic.net
http://www.putfile.com
*new* http://www.rapidsharing.com/
http://www.ripway.com
http://www.savefile.com
http://www.sendmefile.com
http://www.swiftdesk.com
http://www.turboupload.com
*new* http://www.uploadfront.com/
*new* http://www.uploadsend.com/
*new* http://www.uploadtown.com
http://www.ultrashare.net
http://www.ushareit.com
http://www.yourfilehost.com