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GPhotoSpace for Firefox: use GMail to store, send your pics
by Lee Mathews Oct 27th 2008 at 10:00AM
Looking for an easy way to share photos with your GMail contacts? Adding the GPhotoSpace extension to your Firefox install provides you with a solution that's just as easy as using "send to: email recipient" in Windows.
Once you've installed the addon, you can open it by clicking the status bar icon. If you're like me and your status bar is hidden, you can also customize your main toolbar and dropping the included button (which is a little lo-fi) or bookmark chrome://gps/content/gpsMain.xul to access it.
The interface is extremely simple. Create a new album, describe it, add photos, and save it. The only adjustment you can make is the size of photos to share: 320/640/1024/1536 pixels. Make sure you change this setting if you want to upload full-size digital images, as it defaults to 640 pixels.
Remember that this is a GMail hack, so "sharing" an album actually just fires off an email to your recipient that contains your photos. Still, it's a much simpler way to send multiple images than using GMail's attachment button.
If you're simply in need of a good, free way to back up your photos, sign up for a new GMail account - the 7 gigs they provide will give you room for several thousand images.
Be aware that GPS currently only supports jpeg images. That shouldn't pose a problem for most users, but I'd like to see it at least support a couple other formats like png and psd.
GPhotoSpace is free, and currently only available for Windows - a Mac version is in the works.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jash Sayani said 10:19AM on 10-27-2008
Why do you need all this when Google has PicasaWeb service for all Google Account owners !!!??
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Lee Mathews said 10:24AM on 10-27-2008
And for people that don't like Picasa but do like GMail? I don't want a massive app just to send my parents 10 pictures of their grandson.
skrollan said 11:38AM on 10-27-2008
@Lee: ... but you would install an add-on just for sending 10 pictures. makes no sense for me...
Max said 5:46PM on 11-07-2008
Picasaweb = 1 gig free
Gmail= 7+ gigs free
Easy/free way to archive your photos?