Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Uploading photos.... :(

I'm having a tough time uploading photos from overseas, because our nice camera takes photos that are about 4MB each, and the upload is very slow - especially from cheap internet cafes around the place.

At home I use the great facebook upload tool for iPhoto so the photos are compressed on my computer before they are uploaded, saving time and bandwidth.

Facebook does have a similarly neat tool that compresses the photos on the computer right from in the browser, using Java (at least on Firefox) but so far I haven't found a single computer in an internet cafe that has the required software installed. Grrr..

So if anyone knows of some PC software that is simple (ie: i can install it on a memoery stick) that can do the same thing as the Facebook Photo uploader for iPhoto, I'd love to know about it.

Thanks,
Matt

1 comment:

Matt Connolly said...

We found a great internet cafe where we can upload photos.

It has computers running linux, with Firefox and Java installed. And it`s cheaper than the other dodgy windows based cafes around.

It`s called the "At Corner", right next to the Kiwi ice cream shop. Totally recommend it.