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Geolocation web site for pictures

Not being a web developer myself, but having idea for a cool web site, how does one create such a web site? [The web site idea] I need to build a simple social web site where people can upload pictures, comment on the picture, and most importantly, log the actual location of what is in the picture with a google map view of it. Upon en...

Organizing pictures (or any files)

This is a bit of a stretch, but I have an interesting (to me) programming (err... scripting? algorithmic? organizational?) problem. (I am tagging this in Ruby, because of my preference for Ruby for scripting.) Imagine you have 100 gigabytes of pictures floating around on multiple drives. There are likely a total of 25 gigabytes of uniqu...

Store pictures as files or in the database for a web app?

My question is fairly generic and I know there might not be an 100% answer to it. I'm building an ASP .NET web solution that will include a lot of pictures and hopefully a fair amount of traffic. I do really want to achieve performance. Should I save the pictures in the Database or on the File system? And regardless the answer I'm more ...

how do sites automagically grab profile pictures?

Some sites have the ability to grab your profile picture after you sign up for the first time without the user actually uploading a pic. I think stackoverflow has this functionality at sign as well....How does it work? ...

Protect pictures, how to?

I am using asp.net and my users need to upload private pictures to my server. This pictures cannot in anyway get spread so I need to protect them in some way. What is the easiest way to protect them from public use so only the authorized user can reach them? Thanks! ...

generating jpg thumbnails in dotnet

i am using this code to take a jpg image and save it as a thumbnail but it seems very slow .. Image thumbNail = image.GetThumbnailImage(width, height, null, new IntPtr()); is there any faster way to generate a large amount of thumbnails from a directory of images? ...

Trying to make a flash advert link to a website

I have three Flash adverts that need to act as a direct link to the advertiser's website. I can't get it to work! I am putting in the code, directly into the advert and the cursor will now come up over the advert, but it won't click. ...

Best Practice for Saving Images

I am allowing users of the admin panel of my website to upload photos, its a simple process where I check the validity of the image and then save it to a folder, then I also have to record a couple of database records for that image to be able to retrieve it later, my saving function is as follows... The function that uploads and saves t...

Where to save pictures on Android?

My application uses quite a lot of pictures that are downloaded from the internet and cached locally on the Android phone. I am wondering, what is the correct way to save those pictures. There are several ways I see, that are not fully satisfying. Save them on SD Card in a public folder Uses up space that wont be freed on uninstall Us...

jQuery pull images from directory

Is it possible to pull a bunch of .jpg pictures form a local file and throw them into a list? Sorry, I was very vague Pulling from a directory (relitive to the index) like. I want to list them in an image tag, sequentially. ...

Where do you get pics for your designs?

And also, do you use pics found online in your projects? ...

To have no LaTeX margins for pictures

I have many types of diagrams in my whitepaper about databases. I use at the moment horizontal pages to make pictures readable. I would like to know how you can remove LaTeX margins from pages where there are pictures. How can you have no margins for pictures in LaTeX? ...

PHP - some pictures doesn't load (css problem?)

Hello, i am dynamically loading a website via file_get_contents with the following script. <?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'); $url = (substr($_GET['url'], 0, 7) == 'http://') ? $_GET['url'] : "http://{$_GET['url']}"; $base_url = explode('/', $url); $base_url = (substr($url, 0, 7) == 'http://') ? $base_url[2] ...

is there anyway to host my own picture web site and have links for people to order them through other services

i have too many pictures and i dont want to pay for storage with picasa, etc as i have my own hosting space that i pay for already. is there anyway i can keep my own hosted pictures and website but still allow people to click to order pictures through other services? ...

How do you deal with temporary picture uploads in PHP?

I'm creating an online game in PHP where users can create playable characters. Each character can have a user-uploaded portrait. A player can simultaneously have multiple characters, and the pictures for them can be changed anytime. Naturally, the pictures have to be resized and re-compressed to avoid huge files. Here's my problem: When...

Best way to save/load pictures with .Net & SQL Server 2005?

Hey, What is the typical way to handle product pictures in a web-page selling products? Say I had a database with books or computer components etc, all of which have their own sample pictures for example... Should I save them into the DB as binary data, or somehow handle them in the codebehind, saving them into a directory with the appr...

Picture frames - iPhone

I'd like to be able to take a picture (camera or library) and overlay something like a picture frame on it, then save it back to the camera roll. Should I be looking into OpenGL?or, what? Thanks for the pointers. ...

RDLC, showing diffrent images/pictures on diffrent database values, c#

Hi, How can i show diffrent pictures based on a value in the databse in my rdlc report? for example, costumer - K1, wants picture1, while costumer K2, wants picture2. But i want this value insted to show a picture. My costumers is insterted into a table. And then sent to the rdlc. This is working so i can fetch the diffrent costumer nam...

Problem with rendered latex file's pictures comes out after section that preceeds it in the latex file.

So I have a Latex file with some plots. However there's a problem with the figure floats in the image. I have a picture right before a page break, and latex pushes the to big plot down to the next. Fine enough. But then it decides to go smart and push up the section after the plot, to the free space that was left when the picture was pus...

Android Get Local File Bytes

I'm trying to get a byte array of an image saved locally on the phone. I'm using the code: @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.upload); // Look in the Device startActivityForResult(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaSto...