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Amazon Prime subscribers are getting another cool perk, free unlimited photo storage that lets you access your photos anywhere: on your phone, computer or tablet.
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Google already has this. I think it's like 15gb free and then after that they auto resize your pics to be 2048px on the longest edge. If you have an android phone, Google+ will auto backup all your pics to your picasa account. Honestly a very cool feature in case your phone is stolen/dies or your SD craps out.
Requirements for Uploading Photos & Videos
The photo or video is smaller than 2 GB
The video is less than 20 minutes long
You have sufficient storage space available on your Cloud Drive and on your computer
File and folder names contain fewer than 255 characters
Supported File Types
For photos:
.bmp
.gif
.jpeg
.jpg
.png
.raw
.tif
.tiff
For videos:
.mp4 (including mov, 3gp, m4v)
.avi (including divx)
.mts (mpeg transport stream)
.mpg (mpeg program stream)
.asf/.wmv
.flv
.ogg
Note:
Supported video codecs include: h.264, mjpeg, mpeg4, mpeg2, mpeg1, h.263, Sorenson. Supported audio codecs include: aac, mpeg1/2, amr, wma, qcelp, pcm.
Photos or video file types that do not meet the above requirements can be found in Cloud Drive Files, but not viewed in Cloud Drive Photos & Videos. Unsupported photo file types are not covered under the Prime unlimited storage benefit and will count against your Cloud Drive storage limit.
Or your phone randomly wipes all photos. Happens to my wife every few months. Just wipes everything. So, I set her up with the backup for Picasa. She's happy now when it happens and she has a backup.
Windows Phone automatically syncs pictures to OneDrive all the time. I love that feature. Take a picture, and in a few seconds, it's on OneDrive ready to go. Great for backup, cool for having everything available to show others regardless of if you're on your phone or desktop.
A couple years ago, I'd be against this whole thing. I'm sure if my stuff was leaked, I'd be pissed, too. But, for the general person, it's excellent. I really love the "cloud" stuff now.
Does it upload to onedrive as a normal file?
Thing that ticks me off with Google+/picasa is that it uses your googledrive space but access to the files via google drive is not possible. You then are stuck with using their clumsy (imo) web interface to edit/organize pictures.
Yes, it does upload as a normal file. You can go to your desktop PC, and they are there as the normal files. Edit, manipulate, etc..
interesting... been thinking of making the switch to onedrive... Not sure about the MS phone though.
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can you hotlink?
So what happens to all your pictures if you decide not to renew your Prime subscription?
is this just a ploy to keep you hooked?
Since a RAW format is proprietary from maker to maker, I'm not sure how they would enforce this.Wonder if this includes raw files...
No gun to head to start using it. And if you quit Prime, you just have to do some planning first.So what happens to all your pictures if you decide not to renew your Prime subscription?
is this just a ploy to keep you hooked?
So all you really want is prime shipping, too bad, so sad. I hate when they bundle too much crap. Now people are going to feel like they are stuck with Prime because they have all their pictures uploaded, and I bet there is no easy way to download them all after the fact, should you decide to migrate the files, and have to save them one by one.
Amazon Prime subscribers are getting another cool perk, free unlimited photo storage that lets you access your photos anywhere: on your phone, computer or tablet.
If you use cloud storage, you should be issued a special license that states in big red letters on it. I R FUCKING IDIOT.
So what happens to all your pictures if you decide not to renew your Prime subscription?
is this just a ploy to keep you hooked?
So I just tried a little test. Look for in short if TLR I uploaded an NEF file from my D7100. The website took it just fine. I headed over to manage my account and it told me I had 1.1MB of file use, this was from the files I've sent to my kindle. 1 phone and 28.6MB free, I think they mean free as in free storage not left as this was the size of the file.
I was stoked! So I went over to see the picture and all I saw was a 120x160 file. However this file is 28.6MB big. I downloaded it and ran it through an MD5 compare and it's the original file I uploaded.
In short: as it is right now at the web uploader will find and validate your NEF files by the TIFF preview inside of it. You'll only see the small thumbnail but your entire file is up there for free. No idea if this will change or if this violates terms and later amazon will be mad.
Does it upload to onedrive as a normal file?
Thing that ticks me off with Google+/picasa is that it uses your googledrive space but access to the files via google drive is not possible. You then are stuck with using their clumsy (imo) web interface to edit/organize pictures.
So what solution would you offer to these idols that's as cost effective and convenient? I understand why people are concerned with cloud storage. But to call people idiots with no alternative with the same capabilities while removing what you think are the issues within the same price structure isn't the trademark of genius.
The solution has been around for decades.
If you can afford a computer, you can afford to buy a god damned backup drive. If you can afford a camera phone, you can afford a snap develop and toss phone. Just because technology is improving doesnt mean you have to be a lazy bastard who's idea of convenience is to allow someone to literally do whatever they want with your property without any compensation or say in what they do with it.
Would you like to be the poster child for HIV dating websites when you dont have HIV or any STD's? And yes, that has really happened.
Wouldnt it be awesome to find out your 9 yr old daughter is on the front page of the deep web on a kiddie porn site licking a fucking lolipop because some third party bought that photo from amazon's cloud that you took at her birthday party and released it into the wild?
If you find stuff like this completely outlandish, think again. IT HAPPENS! No one should be posting pictures of themselves or telling the world about themselves on the internet if they are not prepared for the worst possible shit you can never come up with in a million years to happen and are now linked to ... because it does... every day.
There is no "Alternative' to this. If you do not want your stuff to become public FOREVER or misused, dont do it on the internet, or anywhere else and document it in any way. I've seen some hilarious informative and downright foul shit in this world, but nothing compares to what i have seen on the internet that is supposedly secure and or involves ease of use. Nothing is secure if it is connected to the internet, and especially if you store something on anything connected to the internet. Thus by using a cloud storage service, yes, people are idiots. You are NEVER a person, you are a transaction waiting to happen when quarterly earnings come calling, and fuck the whole lot of the users if they dont like it.
interesting... been thinking of making the switch to onedrive... Not sure about the MS phone though.
Apparently you can share your MP3's that Amazon puts in your cloud drive, not sure if it's something they overlooked.
I unshared the mp3 in the above link already.
lol hilariousMaybe you should get the hell off the internet and stop being a lazy fuck and mail your [H] forum posts to Kyle or Steve so they can transcribe your nonsensical rants about the stupidity of new technology onto their technology forum.