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4 Great and Free Online Image Hosting and Sharing Services

Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Have you noticed the power of images on the internet? From professional journalists to weekend bloggers, everyone uses images or pictures of various things in their articles to make it look attractive and help tell a story. Remember the saying:

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

If you’re hosting your blog on, you probably have plenty of space to store your online images, but what if you run out one day or are using a hosting plan that gives you very little space?

One great way to save a little space is to host your photos on another site or service.  Most of these sites do more than just host images.  They could provide you photo editing tools or the ability to share your photos with lots of other people.  There are lots of great options for hosting photos, and we are going to tell you about 4 of them today.

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5 Great Flickr Search Engines

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by srikanth.

Flickr is the hub for some stunning, beautiful, unusual, pleasing, scary(sometimes) and fabulous pieces of photography. Though Flickr search is fine, it might not always lead you to the exact image you were looking for.

Here we present 5 Flickr search engines which are powered by the Flickr API to help you navigate and explore Flickr in a better way.

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Top 5 Blogging Tools for Mac: Tool #3 Image Shackle

Posted on 26. Nov, 2008 by Luis Sandoval.

You’ve got your research and your writing done. You’ve probably crafted an amazing post after all this, but it does you no good if people don’t find your post interesting. Aside from a good title, images are the next factor that readers will see and that will determine whether it will draw them into your post or not. Sounds fickle, but online print is no different than traditional print, it has to be catchy and appealing if you’re going to attract readership.

Part of acquiring good pictures is cropping them just right to not only fit into your story, but also finding the fine line where they don’t take over your story. That’s where Image Shackle comes into play.

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How To Transfer Photos from Flickr to Picasa

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Recently, I moved from a Flickr account to a Picasa Web Albums account.  The main reason behind the move comes from the fact that I use Picasa as my desktop photo organizer.  The one thing that kept me from switching earlier was that I didn’t want to have to move all of the pictures I already had on my Flickr account.

After a little searching around the Internet, I found Migratr.  Migratr makes it easy to transfer your pictures from Flickr to Picasa or vice versa.  Let’s look at how easy it is to make the transition.

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Spell Anything with Flickr

Posted on 07. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Nirmal over at Life Rocks 2.0 posted about a really cool Flickr tool.  It’s called Spell with Flickr, and it does just what you think it would.  It allows you to spell out whatever you want with images that are posted on Flickr.  Follow the link for the original article.

Improve your Flickr Experience – Spell with Flickr

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Upload Pictures to Flickr From Picasa

Posted on 20. May, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

Normally, I like to vary my posts, but I wanted to do a quick follow up on the last post. The reason for the follow up is that there is a must have plugin for Picasa if you want to manage your photos online with Flickr instead of Picasa Web Albums.

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