iimmgg.com Blog

Multiple files uploads working again on Flash 10

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:59:00 -0400

Today we received some notifications from a couple of users that upgraded to the recently released Flash Player 10, and experienced an error when trying to upload pictures.

Our multiple files upload system uses Harald Kirschner’s Fancyupload, a great Flash Upload component that works with Mootools (the Javascript framework we use).
Harald has done a great job… and today he was really fast, fixing the code to make it useful for those that already upgraded to Flash Player 10.
He has posted about this here.

We have already implemented the new code and its working great!
If you have any problem with it, just contact us so we can find the problem.

Again, thanks to Harald for the great work and for this prompt fix for FP10 users.

Pablo

iimmgg.com available in French

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:20:38 -0400

Thanks to our good friend Joël (http://jojaba.free.fr/), iimmgg.com is available also in French.

He also translated the upcoming iimmgg.com Firefox Addon / extension.

Great work Joël :)

You can send any feedback about the translation to support@iimmgg.com and it will be forwarded to Joël.

Thanks! :)

Pablo

Customize your account!

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:01:00 -0400

Yes, now you can customize the look and feel of your account, so visitors to your galleries and pictures can feel like they are still on your website.

You can add a custom header image, with a link to your site, and change the color of backgrounds, texts and links of all the pages where your pictures are displayed.

You will have available a subdomain like youraccount.iimmgg.com from where you can link to your pictures and make use of your own customization.

Also, you can use that subdomain to show any content uploaded to iimmgg.com with your customized style.

Below we show some samples of customized accounts:

Have fun with it! and if you have any doubts, just ask for help at support@iimmgg.com :)

Best regards

Pablo

Upload your pictures from any browser

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:00:00 -0400

It’s confirmed, now you can upload your pictures to iimmgg.com from any browser.

We have added support to the most used browsers:
- Firefox 2
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explorer 7

And we are also ready for the new generation of browsers:
- Firefox 3
- Opera 9.5
- Safari 3.1.1

This new generation of browsers have huge speed improvements, so we really recommend you to use them!
Forget about the buggy Internet Explorer, and start surfing the web faster and safer :)

Pablo

Rapidshare uploads disabled today

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:35:00 -0400

Rapidshare has changed their design so we need to make some changes to our PHP Rapidshare upload script, to work again.

We will try to have it working again for today.

UPDATE: Fixed! Its working again :)

Best regards

Pablo

Protecting our childrens. Labeling adult content.

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:05:00 -0400

Today we added a nice feature to our system.

A good amount of the uploaded pictures are NOT SAFE FOR WORK content, and that makes us worry about this being seen by childrens.

To help parents prevent childrens from viewing age-inappropriate content, we implemented adult content labeling to all pictures uploaded to iimmgg.com.

When you upload a picture, you can tell us if the content is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. In that case, a Restricted To Adults (RTA) label will be added to the HTML, so those who doesn’t want their childrens to see adult content, can make use of specific software or browser extensions to avoid it.

You can find a good list of adult content filtering products and services from the RTA website.

We support and thanks the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) for this feature that helps all of us to protect our childrens.

We encourage others adult-content-related webmasters to support and make use of this. Its really easy to implement on any site and doesn’t have any disadvantage for your site. It only will help to do a better Internet.

Best regards
Pablo

New tools: rotate and flip your pictures instantly

Mon, 19 May 2008 23:41:00 -0400

Yes, rotate and flip tools were already available through Picnik, but now we added the option to instantly rotate or flip (mirror) your pictures from the thumb view of your uploads.

Try it, you will see its really easy to rotate your pictures.
Just two clicks and you’ll see instant results.

Registered users can also make use of this feature from their My Galleries area.

Picnik is still the king to work with your pictures, it brings you lots of useful tools to improve your images, but now you have another quick option to do rotating and flipping a much easier task :)

Best regards
Pablo

lighttpd powered

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:21:00 -0400

Today we introduced some changes on iimmgg.com’s image servers.

We were using Apache 2 on all of our servers, to serve php pages and also to serve images, css files and javascript files.
Even with good amounts of memory on the servers, we started to notice some slowness on peak hours.

This is mostly because galleries displayed on our site or external sites, have an average of 20 pictures, so each visitor were requesting 20 files in a row.
On peak ours, Apache was running out of threads, even with enough free memory.

So we took the decision of adding lighttpd powered servers to serve all our static content (images, css, javascript). Since lighttpd is much faster and lighter in resources consumption, it solved the speed problems and also gave more power to Apache when it was really needed (serving php pages).

The first time we used lighttpd, we did it using Apache’s proxy module, so each request to an image, was redirected to lighttpd server on an alternative port.
It was working ok, but it was still using Apache’s threads to do the proxy calls, so we still had problems.
The real solution was to add lighttpd servers on different IPs and setting a special subdomain for it. So now we just serve images from that domain and lighttpd takes care of all the work.

We are also doing some tests with Nginx, that will maybe became the replacement of the Apache servers.

Best regards

Pablo

Download galleries from RapidShare.com

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:21:00 -0400

Today we’re excited to announce a new feature on iimmgg.com that will allow visitors to download a ZIP-file containing all the images from a gallery.

Every time you are viewing a picture or gallery, you will have a link to download all the pictures on a ZIP-file, that will be automatically uploaded to Rapidshare.com.
We choosed Rapidshare.com service because is the most widely used service to host files.

All the magic is done by a PHP script that upload the zip-files to a Rapidshare.com account and returns the right link (or links, when the gallery has more than 100mb in pictures) for download.

Galleries gets created on request and then cached. So, the first time a visitor tries to download a gallery, he will see the zip-file generation and the Rapidshare.com upload process. Then it gets cached.
Next time a visitor tries to download the gallery, he will inmediately see the download link.

We hope it became useful for you.

Best regards

Pablo

Edit your pictures online for FREE with Picnik

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:22:00 -0400

Many of you have already been using it while why implemented it, but now its official: You can edit all your pictures with Picnik.

So, what can you do with Picnik?
You can edit any of the pictures you have uploaded to iimmgg.com, right from your browser, without downloading nor installing anything!

It’s the best and easiest way to fix underexposed photos, apply effects, remove red-eye, rotate or crop your pictures. It’s fast, easy, and fun.

You can use it from Windows, Mac or Linux, since it works with any flash-enabled browser.

Some Picnik features:

Fix your photos in just one click
Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool

Integration with our system was really easy thanks to their powerfull and well documented API.

We will try to post some Picnik tutorials in the future.

Try it, and enjoy it!!

Pablo

Select and upload multiple pictures

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:03:00 -0400

Now you can upload many pictures at the same time.
We integrated a modified version of FancyUpload, a cool and really useful mootools upload widget that allows you to select and upload multiple files at the same time.

Its pretty cool, just click on the Browse button and select all the pictures you want to add to the queue. When you click on the Start Upload button, the queue list will be processed and you will get noticed of the upload status through the progress bars.

Best regards

Pablo

Welcome to our Blog!

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:25:00 -0400

From here we will try to let you know about new features and improvements in our service.
Also you will be able to express your doubts and desires and we will do our best to satisfy you :)

Read on and let us know what you think!
Pablo