Optimizing Images for the Web

For image uploaders. Why bother optimizing your images for the web?

Large file size images loads longer. The longer the waiting time for your viewer, the higher probability of losing a visitor. It also affects your upload time.

Images directly uploaded to the web from your cameras are heavy. Optimization can produce drastic change in file size, uploading and loading time for you and your visitors.

With the right balance between quality and compression, visual fidelity of your images will not be lost. Experiment on it, just remember, don’t do it on your originals. Create a copy of the file you want to optimize and do your compression on the copy. That way your original is safe.

Same thing too with photo editing, always keep your originals unaltered. Edit a file copy.

Almost all photo editing softwares have options for changing pixels and dimension. Use it and see how it reduces your image size and how it affects the quality of your image on different ratios of compression. And also, keep the aspect ratio (proportion). You might not want to have your pictures stretched vertically or horizontally.

Enjoy faster uploading and loading of your pics! Happy viewing!!!

RapidShare Walk Arounds

If you are not a RapidShare premium account user, you’ve probably encountered downloading problems such as waiting times and exceeding download limits. Here are some walk arounds I have stumbled upon. Be careful though with some of the procedures and I suggest you scan the files first if the procedure involves downloading and installing some files.

Here it goes:

1. Short-Out the JavaScript:

1. Goto the page you want to download
2. Select FREE button
3. In the address bar put the following: javascript:alert(c=0)
4. Click OK
5. Click OK to the pop-up box
6. Enter the captcha
7. Download Your File

2. Request a new IP address from your ISP server.

Here's how to do it in windows:
1. Click Start
2. Click run
3. In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
4. When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit

5. Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.
6. Try the rapidshare download again.

Frequently you will be assigned a new IP address when this happens. Sometimes you will, sometimes you will not. If you are on a static IP address, this method will not work. If this works for you, you may want to save the above commands into a batch file, and just run it when you need it.

3. Use a proxy with SwitchProxy and Firefox:

1. Download and install Firefox if you have not already
2. Download and install SwitchProxy
3. Google for free proxies
4. When you hit your download limit, clean your cookies and change your proxy

4. You can use a bookmarklet to stop your wait times:

1. Open IE
2. Right Click On This Link
3. Select Add to Favorites
4. Select Yes to the warning that the bookmark may be unsafe.
5. Name it "RapidShare No Wait"
6. Click on the Links folder (if you want to display it in your IE toolbar)
7. Click OK
8. You may need to close and reopen IE to see it
9. Goto rapidshare and click the bookmarklet when you are forced to wait.

5. OWN A RAPIDSHARE 1 year PREMIUM ACCOUNT

Follow these steps:
1. Create a paypal PREMIUM Account at this address. It is FREE;

http://www.paypal.com

When asked for credit card details simply say cancel. You do not need
to fill it.

2.Then go to the following link;
http://www.AWSurveys.com/HomeMain.cfm?RefID=marques1987

Join this site. It is also FREE. You get paid for completing surveys
over there 6$ to 4$ dollars per survey and 1.25$ per referral thats a
lot u will get a
premium account of 1 year in weeks time ......i myself have a 1 year
premium account and now i am collecting some exta cash .

4.. Another thing you can also use paypal money to buy stuff on ebay
and other shopping sites.

6. Download this:

http://www.zendfile.com/7925735451?/R4p1dH4ck3r2.5F1n4l.r4r

> 1. Install
> 2. When it ask for Launching Click it off
> 3. Copy Crack to C:\Program Files\Download Direct
> 4. Ask for Replacing, click yes.
> 5. Open the program ( if you have a register error on Vista try open
> with "Run Admin" if you right click)
> 6. Add a link and start downloading.
> 7. Maybe bad but it caps @ 1 MB/s

Good Points:
> No need for Rapidshare Account

Bad Points:
> Link has to be ending with .rar and not with html!!
> Caps @ 1 MB/s