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# Friday, July 22, 2005

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Smugmug Blogs

This is quite cool, the folks at smugmug started a bunch of blogs.

In case you don’t know, smugmug is a fantastic photo site. They are a subscription service but are well worth it. For $30 a year you get unlimited photo upload with a very rich set of features and permission model. Getting your photos there is a snap with the tool I wrote (Send to smugmug) which uses their XML-RPC API to upload photos. They also have a REST API. Shortly I’ll be releasing a preview of the .NET Class Library that Send to smugmug uses to make it easy to write little utilities to program smugmug.

I’ve subscribed to most of their blogs listed below.

Personalities

Chris MacAskill - President
Don MacAskill - CEO & Chief Geek
Jimmy Thompson - Web Superhero

Topics

Getting Great Prints - it's all about color correction
Pro Corner - pump up your sales
Release Notes - almost every bug fix, new feature, and enhancement
The API - want to make smugmug work the way you'd like?

BTW – if you sign up for a new account from any of the links above, you’ll get $5 off your first year (and I’ll get a $10 credit).

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Posted Friday, July 22, 2005    Permalink    Comments [3]  View blog reactions

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Friday, July 22, 2005 5:31:57 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Another product to look at for excellent integration with Smugmug is Powersnap. Not only can you upload snaps to Smugmug from Powersnap, but you can also manage your Smugmug snaps offline from within Powersnap. You can also subscribe to other smugmug-based collections (Family, Friends...).

More details here: http://balak.blogspot.com/2004/12/order-to-your-chaotic-visuals-with.html
Bala
Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:09:50 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I have tried your Send to Smugmug, and it is wonderful! Just a comment: I uploaded 573mb worth of photos, which took multiple hours (my stupid comcast connection, although "4Mbps", limits uploads to an appalling 384Kbps). At the end of it, I get a little window that ostensibly tells me how long it took (nice touch, I was really hoping for that), but instead of the 5-7 hours it must have taken, it said 12 minutes, 55 seconds. Any feedback on that?
JeffD
Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:43:50 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hey Jeff-

That sounds like a bug on my part. My connection is like > 5 MBit upload so everything takes a few minutes. I need to test things out on a slower connection :-).

Thanks for the report.
Omar Shahine
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