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      <title>Organize Your Albums</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 10 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Some of our PicturePush users had problems organizing their albums properly.&nbsp; Therefore we introduce:&nbsp; Album Groups.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;To add albums to a group,&nbsp; you can click the 'edit' icon next to an album and then choose 'Add to Group'.&nbsp; This will open a dialog to choose the group name (or an existing group)&nbsp; Grouped albums will show under a seperate group header on your gallery index.&nbsp;      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 10 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      We moved PicturePush to a brand new server, which should be faster and physically closer to the servers that serve the images,&nbsp; Unfortunately this move did cause a disruption in our service yesterday evening/night.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everything is up and running now, so if you still notice anything strange please let us know. For those interested:&nbsp; it has both solid state drives for the database and normal disks for temporary image storage&nbsp; and 12 GB of ram.&nbsp; The CPU is a lot faster than the one on the old server, so resizing images and&nbsp; recoding videos should be quicker as well.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 09 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      For some time we have used Amazon S3 as back up&nbsp; for our pro users on PicturePush.&nbsp; However, with the growing amount of users we decided that it was time to switch to S3 for all storage.&nbsp; The reason being that we got tired of managing our own storage:&nbsp; disks got full at unexpected times, etc.The approach we followed was to first&nbsp; get all files into S3&nbsp; using the backup scripts we already had for the pro-accounts.&nbsp; Then we wrapped al our code that touched the image files.&nbsp; So we ended up with a filesystem based storage api with methods like: getLocator($image, $format)putFromFile($locator, $file)getToFile($locator,$file)getToTemporaryFile($locator)exists($locator)exists_local($locator)readfile($locator)filesize($locator)etc.Furthermore, we needed to account for metadata storage such as filesize,&nbsp; resolution, etc. because we could no longer get these from the files directly. Implementing all these abstraction was the most elaborate part of the transition. (If you ever do anything with files:&nbsp; wrap it! ) After this, the actual switch to using S3 was trivial.&nbsp; After a few days of bug fixing everything seems to be stable and quick again.As we needed to preserve our existing URL structure,&nbsp; lazy image generation and session based authentication ( for private images )&nbsp; we could&nbsp; not serve from S3 directly. To keep things quick, we decided on using a large local cache for the most common files. This enables us to serve files fast and using our existing infrastructure without relying on it for permanent storage.Because of this switch to S3, we can now focus on stuff that really matters:&nbsp; features and speed. For example: To further speed up the serving of images, we are now experimenting with custom CDN nodes.&nbsp; Hopefully we will start some nodes in the US soon, so our US customers will get a much better experience.      ]]>
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      <title>Safety First: Daily backup</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 09 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Although we store all your photos twice at PicturePush, this might not be enough to handle small or larger disasters.&nbsp; Therefore we decided that we want to keep your photos even safer.&nbsp; Starting today, all photos uploaded by pro-members will be backed up daily to Amazon S3.&nbsp; It's a very reliable service to store data.&nbsp;&nbsp; It uses multiple datacenters to spread the data, so we feel that we will be able to recover your photos in almost any event.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So if you want your photos to be really really safe,&nbsp; upgrade to a pro-account.      ]]>
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      <title>20.000 PicturePush signups!</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 09 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        Today photo sharing site PicturePush reached the 20,000th signup. The site doubled it's member base in just over 8 months. Member number 20,000 received a free two-year upgrade to pro-membership to celebrate.    With this occasion I have taken the opportunity to write something about our current state of affairs and plans for the future:   The site started in 2006 and has now grown to hosting&nbsp; over 1.3 million pictures taking up over 2 Terabytes of storage space.&nbsp; All of this using 2 storage/web servers and a database servers which together process the 54 million requests each month. Most of these requests come from Poland, The Netherlands and the USA.   Currently the main focus is on increasing reliability and availability. The recent outages have emphasized the importance of this effort. An important step is the addition of very reliable backup for pro accounts which will become effective in the next few days.   In 2009 PicturePush will further focus on it's pro-members by introducing more options for&nbsp; publishing and copyright protection.&nbsp; All members will profit from an ever increasing effort in improving usability and the integration with mobile and social platforms.        ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      A lot of our beginning users were confused about the difference between the normal upload and the multi-file upload.&nbsp; Furthermore the installation of Java for the latter, posed a problem for some.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Therefore we have tried to integrate the two into the new upload page.&nbsp; It is based on&nbsp; swfupload.&nbsp; We hope it is easier to use and more clear what exactly is going on.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you have any problems, or liked the old ones better, please tell us.      ]]>
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      <title>Protect your images</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 09 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      For PicturePush pro members there is a new feature:  add a copyright string to your images.   You can set the text to show,  and on what format of images to show it, in your profile.    We also improved the effect of the 'Downloadable originals', from now on it does not only hide the download link, it actually completely disables downloading of the full size image for anyone but you.We hope this improves PicturePush for those users that care about the protection of their most&nbsp; beautiful images.&nbsp; Please let us know what you think.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 09 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Today was a day for some updates on PicturePush:A short introduction text is shown on top of your galleryLarger thumbnails on the gallery index page for each albumChoose your own cover thumbnail for each albumMake comments on your photos private or just for friends&nbsp; (pro members only)       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      A reason to celebrate:&nbsp; PicturePush has just received it's&nbsp; 1 millionth upload. It took us two year and one month to get to this point.&nbsp; PicturePush has very much improved since the start in 2006.&nbsp;&nbsp; We like to thank all of our members for using our service&nbsp; and especially those giving us feedback to further improve the site.      ]]>
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      <title>Photo Printing</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      After a lot of considerations we decided to start a photo printing Beta using ColourMailer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You can now print your photos on PicturePush using the button on the right of the photo.&nbsp;&nbsp; By default you can only print your own photos. However,&nbsp; you can go to your Profile/Preferences and change who can print photos. It can be set to Public, Friends or just you.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We hope this is a valuable addition for those of you posting event photos.      ]]>
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      <title>Account Limits</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      PicturePush is growing faster and faster.&nbsp; As we are quickly running out of storage space, we will temporarily add some constraints to the site.&nbsp; The first is that starting now you are only allowed to upload 200 MB of pictures over a period of four weeks.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is always measured over the past 28 days.&nbsp; So if you uploaded 160 MB in the past days, you can still upload 40 MB today. The total amount of storage you can use remains unlimited.This is a temporary measure to give us some time to increase our storage capacity.&nbsp;&nbsp; To help yourself and us, you can upgrade to become a pro-member.&nbsp; It will give you back the unlimited upload and helps us improve the service.      ]]>
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      <title>Top request: password protected albums</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      There is one thing that has been asked for a lot:&nbsp; Can I share an album with someone without having to share it with all my friends?&nbsp;&nbsp; Starting now, you can protect an album with a password (enter it in the Album Access dialog) that opens up&nbsp; private albums to only those who have the password.Please note that the password gives people extra rights, so if you have a 'for friends' album. And you protect it with a password.&nbsp; Now the album can still be viewed by all your friends, but also by those who are not your friend and do know the password.As our pro-account offering was somewhat limited,&nbsp; we have made this feature available to our pro-users only.       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Sometimes the time is exactly right to implement a certain feature.&nbsp; This week we got three requests to be able to remove comments from an image.&nbsp; Of course it should have been possible already, but it wasn't.&nbsp; Therefore we have now implemented this trivial feature.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can delete your own comments&nbsp; plus all comments on your images.Furthermore, I have restructured the menu a bit. It should now better present what is really important.       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 08 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      PicturePush is growing, with almost 5000 members and 300.000 photos.&nbsp; Some users experienced a noticable slowdown of the site. Therefore we have added an extra server, to provide more power to serve all users. This is a temporary solution until we will switch to our InfiniScale platform. We hope this improves the experience for all of you.&nbsp; (If it is still slow, please contact us)      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Maybe the most requested feature for PicturePush was to give friends access without the need to sign up.&nbsp; Now you can!&nbsp; You still use the existing Invite page, but the user is not only shown the registration form, but also&nbsp; a 'guest pass' link.&nbsp; For the duration of one session they can see your 'for friends' images without signing up.&nbsp;&nbsp; Afterwards they can still sign up and become your friend.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 99 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      You may have seen the new advertising blocks above the PicturePush albums yesterday. This was a short experiment which has ended today.&nbsp; Advertising is moved back to the bottom of the page, because we did not see any improvement&nbsp; worth the inconvenience.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you want to enable us to improve our services even further, please upgrade to Pro membership, as a bonus we will then no longer serve ads on your gallery.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Today our server had unexpected down time.&nbsp; The reason was that the disk was full.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are very sorry that it happened and are taking measures to prevent this in the future.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      I have created two new skins for picturepush for you to choose from:   silver and white.  You can try them if you are logged in and go to your preferences.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Some of our users at PicturePush had occasional problems uploading some types of movies. Especially mp4 movies.&nbsp; Today I spent a few hours updating the conversion software and these problems should now be gone. Additionally I enabled support for&nbsp; the gp3 format (used by some mobile phones).&nbsp;&nbsp; From now on we advise you to use MPEG 4 for encoding the videos.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Lately PicturePush was becoming slower and slower&nbsp; and loads of the server higher and higher without a clear cause: the amount of users did not rise significantly at the days it slowed down. However some apache processes were using an insane amount of memory (relative to the others)&nbsp; Yesterday I noticed something strange in the log files: an image that took ages to serve, created by a user named Zx54feyszlFc, but it was only a small jpeg of 100 times 100 pixels.&nbsp; However, opening it myself it did not stop loading either.&nbsp;&nbsp; I found out that it was 27MB in size. A quick look through our database showed there were hundreds of these files.&nbsp; After restarting apache, within seconds, multiple of these files were requested again. Based on the naming of the files (...xvid1, etc), it were parts of movie downloads disguised as jpg files.After removing all these strange files and the corresponding users, our server load dropped significantly and PicturePush is immediately much more responsive again.&nbsp;&nbsp; From now on we will monitor this more closely and hope to prevent it in the future. And to continue yesterday's cleanup, I've also changed the homepage of FlexLists to give it a more professional feel.&nbsp;      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Do you dream about your own photo and video sharing site? Don't have the time or the money to develop it from scratch?&nbsp;&nbsp; We now offer you a risk free solution:Rebrandable PicturePush Photo and Video Sharing We use the proven technology from the PicturePush site to offer you a hosted and rebrandable photo and video sharing solution.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Our statistics showed that there are not many 800x600 users left.  To take advantage of this I have added a third column in the PicturePush layout. It shows everything you can do with an image, replacing the links below the image and the 'edit image' popup menu.  Icons are added as well so you no longer have to think about what 'rotate left'  and 'rotate right' are going to do to your image.  On those pages not showing a main photo the column will be used for news.If you experience any problems due to this change, please contact me.       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      PicturePush has so many beautifull photos by now, but they are hard to find. Therefore we changed the tagging policy: everyone can add tags to every picture,&nbsp; much like the comments.&nbsp; Offcourse you can still remove tags that you don't like on your photo.&nbsp;&nbsp; Furthermore you can you to 'Preferences' and hide all tags that are not your own if you want to.I hope all of you will start adding descriptive tags, so it will become easier to search and explore PicturePush!      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Because PicturePush will have it's first anniversary this summer we are going to give away a brand new and shiny Canon Powershow A570 IS.  To own this camera you must sign-up and upload your most beautifull pictures.  We will select the winner. Find out more now!      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      For those of you interested in the development of our new PicturePush upload tool, there is now a preview available at:  http://www.picturepush.com/test/ppuploader.jar    You can download it and if you have the Java runtime environment you can simply start it by clicking on it.  (Only the English version is currently working)    This upload tool will enable you to:   create, rename and delete albums    upload photos and videos    resize photos while uploading    tag and categorize pictures you upload All feedback is greatly appreciated.         ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Tags are great to organize your photo's and video's but they can be hard to use when you just want to browse the media created by others. Therefore PicturePush now supports Categories. You can put each photo/video in one of our categories and people can browse those.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      In the last few weeks I have redone PicturePush a bit. The main goal was to improve skinability and make room for more menu options and at the same time unclutter the header. To do so we introduced a new XML based template system which compiles to PHP.&nbsp; The new design only contains two color specific images: the logo and the header background. This makes it possible to completely set the design in stylesheets and therefore can be controlled by the user in the near future. So please stay tuned for part 2, which will be mainly your part.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          Ok, 41.148 pictures is not really a proper milestone, but 1.000 members is.   If you are wondering why the newest member has ID 1283... that's because we had to remove a lot of spam accounts before we introduced the captcha into the signup process.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      We are currently working on an upload tool to replace the applet we currently have for batch uploads.  It will be able to run standalone on your computer and uses the WebDAV interface to communicate.  Some features we came up with:Batch uploading with options to resize and tag the whole batch at onceMove, Rename and Delete images and albumsDrag and drop uploading from ExplorerCross-platform (Java)Improved GUI with thumbnails to actually see what you uploadMuch more...We want this to be the best upload tool you have ever used, so please send me your suggestions so they can be part of the first release.       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      We have improved the PicturePush search. You can now select the area you want to search. This can be your own gallery, the whole site&nbsp; or the gallery you are currently viewing. We hope this makes it easier to find what you want.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Our site www.picturepush.com is around now for a year; it is a photo-sharing, Ajax, web2.0, community, hypeterm 1, hypeterm 2 etc site. It was not designed / made to be a hyped site; it was made because we don't like any of the existing photo sites. So it was made by nerds, for nerd reasons.  Even though it is one year old, it only has 666 members when I write this; while we like to use it ourselfs very much, it seems it is a waste not to promote it in some way, as we still think it is a very nice, userfriendly and usable system we created from scratch.  Features:  Photo sharing (duh)Video sharing, including conversion to flash and thumbnailingAll Ajax (no complete page reloading on most of the features)Webdav/applet/form photo uploadingTaggingCommenting GradingCommunity features; friends, photo rights Hotlinking allowedMultiple languageGrowing storage (like in Gmail)Free  So my question is; how can we promote the site so it gets interested people. As we seem not to be able to do this. There are many of the same type of site, many many are much much worse but get a lot more members and attention.  What is your opinion; what should we add/change to market it, if anything and how should we market it?      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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       Yesterday the number of images on PicturePush crossed the 25.000 mark.  There are many many beautiful images uploaded in the last months. We want to thank all our users for these amazing photo's and their valuable feedback.   To keep growing and offer an even better service we cannot do without your feedback. Please go to the forum and leave your message. You can also vote for new features (or add more) on the PicturePush Features Votelist.       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      We have decided to increase the limits of the free PicturePush accounts. The old limit was 2000MB. In our new policy you will get 6.7MB per day you are a member. (starting with the same 2000MB at day zero)  So that comes down to about a 200MB increase every month.  If you need even more space you can allways upgrade and get unlimited space. The ads are removed as a bonus.Last week we also moved to a new server. After some initial configuration problems everything now seems to run smoothly and much more stable than the old server. These new servers are also backed up daily to secure your valuable content.       ]]>
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      We observed that a lot of people uploaded the same photo's multiple times on PicturePush. We did not know what it was until recently a user reported that it was due to clicking the 'Upload' button in our batch upload utility multiple times. It would start multiple threads uploading the same set of pictures. We have now fixed this and also fixed the buggy progress indicator. So now it will nicely run from 0 to 100% corresponding to the real upload progress instead of jumping back and forth in large steps.This again proves that we really need your feedback to fix and improve things. Don't hestitate to mail us with your annocances, crazy ideas, etc. We love to hear from you.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Currently we are showing Ads on PicturePush to support the site. If you have beautifull pictures on your gallery this might be a bit of a disappointment to have those Ads right next to them. Therefore we now offer a Pro account without advertisements. Furthermore upgrading will provide you with UNLIMITED storage capacity. More advantages for our Pro users will follow soon.      ]]>
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      We are very sorry but we might have broken some of the special characters in some existing texts in PicturePush. These are now only visible as question marks.  We needed to do this in order to support more special characters present in languages like Lithuanian, Iranian, etc.    For new titles, descriptions, tags and comments you can now use allmost any character you can think of without problems. If some of your special characters have been replaced by question marks you can simply edit the text and replace them with the proper one.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Why didn't we think of that before?  PicturePush is up and running for about 8 months now and we just forgotten it... One of the most essential features for any site that uses a login system. We forgot to put the  'Forgot your password' link in  to remail the password to the user.  But now that's fixed, so you can now all start to forget your passwords :)We have also fixed some minor flaws with tagging (comma seperated tags were added as a whole) and the zip file upload (tags were not added at all and  movies were completely missed as well) feature.   By the way, did I tell you about these features we also added in the past few weeks?Choose a skin for you own Gallery (click 'Profile/Preferences to do so)See an overview of your friends photo's  on the  'Your Friends' pageSearch for Members on the Members page (or using the general search at the top)Rotate, tag, move and delete multiple photo's at one by checking the checkbox in the lowerleft corner  and then selecting the appropriate action in the menu above the thumbnailsWe are updating daily to keep up with your needs.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      PicturePush is all about the photos and videos therefore we redesigned things a bit to make more space for the actual image information. The main/detail  image now covers 50% more area. And the thumbnails are square and a bit taller, giving much more information, especially for portrait images.The page with all your albums is also a bit different now. The full width of the site is used to list the albums instead of the small column on the left. Especially for those of you with more then two or tree albums :) The 'Your Friends' page has been extended to show you friends of friends so you can discover those relations much easier. They might be your friend too!For suggestions you can leave a message on our forum.       ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 07 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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       We have just added experimental support for WebDAV to PicturePush photo and video sharing . It is based on the very nicely designed HTTP_WebDAV_Server Pear class. If you are using Windows XP you can set it up in the following way:  Go to My Network Places, and click on Add Network Place at the top of the left sidebar.  The window that pops up is the Add Network Place Wizard. Click Next.  On the next page, enter the URL of the WebDAV folder in the box named Internet or network address: http://www.picturepush.com:80/webdav.php/       and click Next.  A window asking for your username and password will pop up. Enter the appropriate username(your email address) and password, and click OK.  On the next page, enter a name for this share -- this is the name that will show up in the My Network Places listing.  Click Finish on the next page, and you're done!You should be able to upload pictures by dragging them into the albums you see in your Webfolder, rename albums and images and move images between albums. We are currently still working on supporting other options like copying and changing properties.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 06 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      You might have noticed that the PicturePush homepage was a bit slow lately. Profiling showed that 5 seconds were spend on choosing the single random picture on the homepage. Replacing this by a random selection from only the best rated images reduced the query time by a factor 30. So a wise lesson:  do not use   ORDER BY rand() on queries that return a lot of results (before LIMIT ofcourse).To speed up a bit more we have spreaded out the images over 5 different subdomains. This should make loading of the albums with all those thumbnails a bit faster.  Finally we now provide a list of all members with the number of images and the average image ratings so you can more easily find your friends and other interesting albums.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 06 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      We advertise PicturePush as a photo and video sharing service, the video part did however not yet feel very solid. The Windows Media Player component took long to load and was anything but stable. Looking at the options it became clear that Flash video was the best option. The Flash plugin is widely supported and this setup allows for a very lightweight player.To create the video files we used only opensource software. Most important is the conversion from the original format with ffmpeg. (get started) Thereafter you will need to fix some of the metadata with for example FLVTool2. That's all you need to create proper FLV files.To play these video files a player is required, for now we have chosen  Jeroen Wijering's player because it is nice and clean. We will modify it in the near feature to fit your needs. With this new player you can put the video directly in your weblog or website with a bit of HTML.&nbsp;      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 06 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Last week we have added even more features to our photo and movie sharing service. First of all a lot of bugs have been fixed. Furthermore we improved communication by giving you the ability to mail with other users and the rest of the world about the amazing photos you might see. Another often requested feature we integrated is the ability to rename your photo's.  Do you have other requests? Please tell them.      ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 06 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      Last week we released the beta of PicturePush to the public. Since then we have been working hard on several bugfixes and interesting features. We have made it simpler to tag and describe images, added a batch-upload utility, improved security and have added a nice visual tool to crop your images. Everything is focussed to improve the handling of your files because most of us have a lot of images and it must be possible to manage them all. We want it to be possible to have all your images and movies in one central place in the best possible quality, without the need to worry about storage. We are still looking for suggestions so please try our PicturePush service and send us some feedback. You can also try out the dutch version.      ]]>
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