Going to Have to Delete both Photobucket Accounts, I Think.....sigh

[Manok-Tao]

I keep all my photos on Flash Drives. I always keep my eye on sales for them and doubt I've ever paid more than $10 for a multi gig one. When I plug didg cam into Laptop I also plug in a flash drive. I send pixs straight from Camera to Flash drive. Doing so speeds up any scan of your computer as it doesn't have to labor through the huge files photos create. Frees up space on your computer. Keeps your pixs safe from viruses.
Sometimes I do go to the extent to naming my pictures, which obviosly makes finding certain ones easier, at a minimum I try to upload pixs often, usally after taking "X" amount of photos of a ceratain thing(s). When I do so I create a new file (on flash drive) and name it accordingly then dump said recent pixs into that file. This helps me find certain photos or sets of photos.
I use a white/silver colored sharpie and number the flash drives, then ocassionaly I will go through the most recent flash drive in use and...see what files of photos are on it and add that info to a table of contents that is on each numbered flash drive accordingly. I keep a master table of contents file that relects each flash drive up to date on my master flash drive...No.1. I also keep the master table of contents in a file in "My Documents" that I reference when I need to look for a specific picture(s) .
It may be a bit cumbersome when wanting to shoot a specific photo out to someone but I know that whatever happens to my computer; my pixs are safe. You could always sent photos to two places when DL'ing from camera using the flash drive as a back up. I originally started this a few years back usind CD_RW discs but they are more of a hassel than a flash drive.
In addition the flash drives take up no space in my fire/safe box.

So, my friend SpeckledHen....
maybe you can copy your pixs to another media before you have to dump PhotoBucket?

Hate it if you or anyone loses their photos. I lost some dear ones a few years back...that's what prompted my above mention habit.

J

 

[alicefelldown]

Here are some great firefox addons and tips:

Fasterfox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12878
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. You can pretty much just install this and never adjust the tweaks.

Extended Statusbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1433
A Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size. Helpful to see if a page is timing out on you.

Nuke Anything Enhanced - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951
Allows you to hide almost anything via context menu 'Remove Object'. FANTASTIC for printing recipes and things online, right click ads and extra text and 'remove' - bam, a nice clean page to print.

Classic Compact - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3699
A very clean and compact theme with classic arrow buttons that minimizes space consumed by menu, tool, tab, find and status bars without hurting the overall usability.
* More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.
* A neat trick in this vein is right click on on your bookmarks toolbar, and click Customize. Then drag the “Bookmarks Toolbar Items” from your Bookmarks toolbar to your Navigation toolbar. Finish by turning off your Bookmarks toolbar. You just gained more space!
* You use the same process for the Address bar, except you are moving it from the Navigation toolbar to the Menu toolbar.

Adblock Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections, so if you are on dialup, don't change this!). Here’s how:
* Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
* Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
* Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

 

[ams3651]

dont most browsers have automatic spyware blockers in the settings? I was considering using Photobucket again to get files off my computer but now I will reconsider.

 

[ivan3]

ams3651 wrote: dont most browsers have automatic spyware blockers in the settings? I was considering using Photobucket again to get files off my computer but now I will reconsider.

If using a Windows machine a firewall/antivirus is necessary. Even then one needs to be on their toes. Someone will open an email attachment or click on some ad hosted by clowns in Transylvania and the `vampires' will have been invited in.

Photobucket is a nice sharing service, but all photos should be saved in a lossless format on removable media, a printed list of the files wrapped around the drive/dvd's, and stashed in a safe deposit box (only way to be sure).

Those folks using Vista/7 should learn how to use the resource monitor (processes/services hitting CPU/Drives in realtime). If the machine starts lagging one can get a very good idea about the culprit(s).

Vista:

If still using XP you can download process monitor & explorer (rootkit revealer is handy as well) from the Sysinternals Suite at Microsoft (same thing): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

Last builds on the desktops here was back in 2005. XP and various versions of IE. Have yet to see a problem (attempts, but no joy for Dracu).

Most retail machines come loaded with gavno (HP is notorious - both laptops here required purging on arrival), much stuff will load up and call, or try, to call home/run on startup (why a startup killer program comes in handy). This often is the biggest drag on performance.​