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Found via Wil Wheaton's blog:
http://imgred.com/
Web site ImgRed lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source. Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/. The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.
*Amazing!*
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Doesn't photobucket do basically the same thing?
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Details: When posting on message boards or blogs, often you want to show or link to an image on another website. Directly showing or linking to that image is called hot-linking. It's generally bad because it leeches bandwidth from the host site, and as a result many webmasters have their servers set up to prohibit hot-linking.
The typical work-around is to do the following:
* Save the image to your hard drive
* Navigate to a free image-hosting website
* Enter the path to the image on your hard drive
* Wait for it to upload
* Copy the new URL and paste it into your message-board or blog post
That's rather tedious. Well ImgRed.com lets you simply enter the original URL in your post as you normally would, but with http://imgred.com/ written before the URL. When this is viewed, the image will be copied once to imgred.com, and from then on the image will always be served from imgred.com instead of the host site. Additionally, a thumbnail is automatically generated, which can be accessed by adding http://imgred.com/tn/ before the original URL.
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?
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Because some servers don't let you steal bandwidth, so the images don't show up when you try. Imgred gets around that.
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ImgRed.com lets you simply enter the original URL in your post as you normally would, but with http://imgred.com/ written before the URL. When this is viewed, the image will be copied once to imgred.com, and from then on the image will always be served from imgred.com instead of the host site. Additionally, a thumbnail is automatically generated, which can be accessed by adding http://imgred.com/tn/ before the original URL.
And at photobucket, you can cut and paste a URL directly, without saving it to your hard drive, and creating a photobucket url.
It's a little different, but doesn't seem that different.
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uh no not really, imgred and photobuckets techniques are completely different.
photobucket simple saves the image from the url to the account just like it does with images from the hard drive and mobile phone options.
imgred simple redirects it.
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack.
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But if imgred redirects the image, isn't imgred itself piggybacking on the original site's bandwidth?
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Okay, I do see a major difference, which wasn't clear the way the article was written.
With imgred you don't actually have to go their site to set up the image link. All you do is type "http://imgred.com/" directly before the url where the pic is located.
For example, to post a pic of Angelina Jolie from Fox News, located at http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com...40907_jolie.jpg
I would put
http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com...40907_jolie.jpg
between the [image] brackets, like so:
That IS a lot simpler.
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Interesting.
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Okay, I do see a major difference, which wasn't clear the way the article was written.
With imgred you don't actually have to go their site to set up the image link. All you do is type "http://imgred.com/" directly before the url where the pic is located.
For example, to post a pic of Angelina Jolie from Fox News, located at http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com...40907_jolie.jpg
I would put
http://imgred.com/http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com/images/275686/0_64_040907_jolie.jpg
between the [image] brackets, like so:
That IS a lot simpler.
yeah cause that's not what i said.
And, to be fair, one of my favorite friends there is blind and I take every opportunity available to make fun of that and we're still friends. That guy never fit there. He never got the spirit of the RKMBs. We're gonna keep an eye on the obits, see if he finally left or if he really did have a heart attack.
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True. All you wrote was "uh no not really, imgred and photobuckets techniques are completely different. photobucket simple saves the image from the url to the account just like it does with images from the hard drive and mobile phone options. imgred simple redirects it."
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?
Yeah!
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?
Yeah!
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?
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Found via Wil Wheaton's blog:
http://imgred.com/
Web site ImgRed lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source. Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/. The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.
*Amazing!*
I'm disturbed that you visit Wil's blog...
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The whole comic's down. What took the guy so long?
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The whole comic's down. What took the guy so long?
dunno?
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