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« on: January 30, 2009, 21:28 »
This dialog reminds me of a saying....
K
I
S
S
....
And for those who'd not familiar with this saying, it stands for:
Keep
It
Simple
S t u p i d
This goes for a lot of thing... Don't overdo the programming.... Keep it in a state where it actually does work... The zymm application is a killer! Sorry to say this, but it really is...
Neither buyers nor contributors benefit from this.. Please just peel of some 80% of the killing software and make it run smoothly... No categories, just keywords... Please let us have a seemless upload and search functionality on keywords alone.. Kill most of the upload preparation workflow...
Please just let it be.... UPLOAD - VERIFY ITPC - SUBMIT !
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« on: January 30, 2009, 02:55 »
I'm only just starting up at Istock, but please do ad me as well  screen name FLJAC Thanks 
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« on: January 26, 2009, 12:35 »
* Leaf..... Hopefyully, you're JOKING right Pleeeeeeaaaaaaassssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...... Do post a samble... Would really like to see the collage... Without having to take all that time off from work and buy airplane ticket and all those trivial details....
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« on: January 26, 2009, 11:34 »
It seems that the different agencies have some very different opinnions about that. I have images of a Nokia E71 isolated on white approved several places after just removing the nokia name and model number. I have the same phone as a small object, being very secundary in images of office situation's, being rejected for copyright issues. I have given up, trying to understand how they think, becourse it seems to be quite unlogical... The images in question can be ssen here: http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/29469641http://www.stockxpert.com/browse_image/view/30266031I try always to avoid / remove the names and specifiction's, in many cases, this is enough. In other cases, the reviewer seems to think that the phone itself, event without the name, can not be shown... /Flemming
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« on: January 25, 2009, 08:20 »
Just tried, and I'm having the same problem...
Guess we just have to wait for them to fix it.....
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« on: January 25, 2009, 08:07 »
In my experience, many amateur models find it quite flattering that tehy might actually be usable for commercial purposes and I have several models who are willing to sign the model release and work for free - just for the experience.
My approach is to promis some "TFP" photosessions (time for pictures) - meaning that they are getting pictures for thair portfolio for free, agains a signed model relase.
Can't say if the condisions are different in USA, but here in DEnmark and the rest of europe, it's no big problem.
- And a afgree that it's best to use strangers, rather than using friends and family.
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« on: January 24, 2009, 11:17 »
Might be tempted - IF they adjust the payment model slightly.... Say... 35% for the agency - and 65% for the contributor 
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« on: January 23, 2009, 08:54 »
fljac - perhaps you have different background than me and the word "SLA" isn't as meaningful for you as it is for me; of may be I wasn't clear in my previous post... Coming from IT services I don't have a complete trust in service that doesn't provide measurable guarantees. It's nice that the CEO takes an open approach but he still doesn't address the point from a business service point of view. "Guaranteed 99.9% up time"; "all data backed up on tape daily"; "24 h data restore time"; "128-bit DES encryption" are measurable guarantees. A set of such guarantees for a certain service is called a "Service Level Agreement" or "SLA". And statements like "97% of our customers are happy" is a marketing part, not a business service term. So far the only online storage solution that I am aware of providing an SLA is Amazon S3 (not taking into account hosting providers aimed at web hosting rather than backup/data storage). The options of online and offline backup were recently discussed in this thread; following that discussion I've chosen my own backup method that I described in my blog. [/quote] HI MIklav, I'm an SAP Solution architecht in the daytime, so I do know the meaning of the term "SLA" as this is an integrated part of my daily work life. My opinnion is that it has no relevans what so ever when you speak about guaranteed uptime... Since out backup's needs to be maintained onj a daily basis with limited amounts of data, I don't mind that the system is down for something like 2-5 % of the time... Have in mind that you're not dealing with the database of yor national bank or something like that
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« on: January 23, 2009, 07:02 »
They don't have any SLA at all (i.e. they don't guarantee your data is safe); and there are quite a few stories in the internet about people who lost their data with Carbonite.
Therefore I would not rely on such service as a primary backup - although it could be not bad for keeping an extra copy.
BTW this was discussed in another thread a few weeks ago with various backup alternatives mentioned.
Not that I wan't to argue about maybe a few mistakes... I don't know of any, but for those of you, who might be interested, below I have inserted a description published by the CEO. He's email adress is incluted so it should be possible to obtain a full technical description of the security setup...: ..................................................................... A Note from David Friend, Co-founder and CEO A couple of years ago, when my daughter was a sophomore in college, she called me, sobbing. Her laptop had been stolen, and along with it the term paper that she had been working on for 6 weeks! Her unsympathetic professor didnt want to hear any excuses. It was only a few weeks later that my business partner Jeffs wifes hard drive died. They sent it off to one of those disk recovery services, which charged $1,100 to try to recover her files, but got nothing useful back. She ended up losing two years of baby pictures and financial records. Poof. Gone. She hadnt bothered to back any of it up. Why cant backup be simple and affordable? We decided it was high time to get our families to backup their Computers. Not so easy! Sure, we could spend Saturday afternoons burning a stack of CD ROMs, but who has the time? We could buy external hard drives for everyones computer, but theyre expensive, often complicated, and can get stolen or damaged very easily. We felt that online backup was the way to go because its professionally managed, secure, and always available. But existing online backup services were really complicated and very expensive. Why couldnt someone offer one that was simple and affordable? Something without technical jargon, ongoing user involvement, and capacity limits... Couldnt a backup service just run in the background, automatically protecting changes and new files on your Computer? That idea became Carbonite. Unlimited backup, one flat fee People thought we were nuts offering unlimited backup for just $49.95 per year. Yes, we do lose money if you back up more than 100GB, but most people dont, and its a small price to pay for the simplicity you get when you dont have to make any decisions or compromises. Its like buying an insurance policy for your data. Since we launched Carbonite in 2006, weve backed up over 2 billion files. Today we back up more than 30 million new files every day. More importantly we have restored over 160 million files that would have been lost forever without us. We proved that simple is better Carbonite has been featured in the The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other publications worldwide. Today Carbonite has customers in over 104 countries. We have more consumer and small business customers than any other online backup service. And we make sure that every one is a happy customer In user satisfaction surveys, 97% of our users say they are either 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied' with Carbonite. About safety and security Sometimes people ask us "Why should I trust you with my most confidential files?" There are technical answers: encrypting your data before it leaves your Computer, encrypted SSL data transmission, hacker-tested intrusion defenses, and so forth. But think about our motivations, too if we ever compromised a users private information, we would soon be out of business. Maybe you cant evaluate our technical defenses, but our business partners can and do. For example, if you pick up a copy of Microsoft Money, youll see the Carbonite logo right on the box. They trust us with their customers most private financial information. We also go to great pains to be sure we dont lose your data we store everything on redundant disk arrays that are 36 million times more reliable than the hard drive in your Computer. Try us, risk free I hope you will give Carbonite a try. Almost 70% of the people who try Carbonite purchase a subscription within the first two weeks. 98% of our users say that they would recommend Carbonite to a friend or family member. I hope to welcome you soon to a growing community of users who sleep better at night knowing that the contents of their Computers are safe. Please feel free to write to me at [email protected] if you have any questions. Regards, David Friend, CEO ...
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« on: January 23, 2009, 03:33 »
I too use the carbonite backup system.
It runs smoothly and works very well...
I just have a small clarification to the post from Oboy... Carbonite holds ONLY ONE version of your files. When the files are deleted from your local machine, Carbonite keeps the file for 30 days before deleting it. So only one version, but 30 days to recover files deleted by mistake.
If you need to, you can restore files selectively, one by one. If you need to restore completely, you can restore in prioritized order as you see fit.
All in all, a very simple and straight forward system for a reasonable price!
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« on: January 21, 2009, 17:52 »
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« on: January 21, 2009, 17:33 »
Hi Kngkyle,
Would it be too much troubble to change the background color to the "official" MSG orange?
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« on: January 21, 2009, 17:16 »
epantha's version is close and actually quite good But I have to agree with whitechild about the orange color, and then I would really like to see the Kngkyle logo transformed into orange and with text upsized and without all the small unnessesary elements...
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« on: January 21, 2009, 17:07 »
Hi Leaf, I'm sorry to say this, but the current one is FAR better than the new one...
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« on: January 21, 2009, 16:58 »
It might help if the blue one was adjusted slightly.....
Upsize the text that states "micro stockgroup.com"
.... And skip the rest of the text. IMHO this will make this logo GREAT
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« on: January 21, 2009, 07:50 »
Superb idea Please go ahead
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« on: January 20, 2009, 11:10 »
Thanks I used SmartFTP in the past too... Great little simple program... A pitty it's not free anymore  Thank you for the multiple instance idea, must try that out ASAP... Apart from that, I fully agree... Most other funstionalities, other than the multiple upload functionality, is not nessesary. I think it's very convenient simply to add the keywords and description as a part of the editing workflow. Since I'm uning CS3, this is where keywording is done.. If anyone knows and uses a FTP program supporting multiple sites upload - and maybe with a better general userinterface than Filezilla, it would be nice to know.
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« on: January 20, 2009, 09:15 »
hi FlemishDreams...
Thanks, but I actually DO use the filezilla... Maybe it's my lack of understanding for this program, but I don't how to process the same upload que for several sites automatically..... Automatically meaning selecting several sites from the site manager up front - and then staring the upload for all selected sites....
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« on: January 20, 2009, 07:14 »
I tried it briefly last weekend.
I'm not too thrilled about the user interface. I find it a bit unclear how to select images to the upload que.
I think it would be GREAT if the system supported drag n drop. - Both from "inside the program, and from windows / MAC filemanager.
I do all my keyworing and descriptioning while procesing the files in photoshop, so what I need stockmaster PRO for, is only the multible site upload interface.
This is why the DRAD n DROP files functionality would be great!
Best regards
Flemming
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« on: January 19, 2009, 14:27 »
Thanks everyone,
I was kind of given up on them, after apprx one year with no sales what so ever...
Maybe mostphotos then is better as a platform for selling creative things without some inspectors to reject when tehy feel that it does not quite fit the site profile...
/flemming
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« on: January 19, 2009, 13:22 »
Thanks diego_cervo , I will give it a chance more and upload some more images then / Flemming
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« on: January 19, 2009, 10:38 »
Hi all, Does any of you sell anything at http://myloupe.com?I have had a portfolio of some 140 images there for quite a while... No sales what so ever... unfortunately, the site does not offer any statistics, apart from actual sales figures... And mine states 0.00 USD!  Thanks Flemming
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« on: January 19, 2009, 10:22 »
Thank you very much! That is some quite impressive numbers  Perhaps I should consider NOT to delete my account after all By the way... You'll find links for personal shop and much more via the "My Panther" menu - Extras - homepage vidgets Thanks, Best regards Flemming
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« on: January 19, 2009, 10:07 »
Whitechild, That is exactly the point! All those stupid contributors are unable to organize so why not "steal" the images and give them away? It would be very nice to see the real statistics on the sold subscriptions... ' - How many of the allowed images are downloaded? - The turnover / the expence for contributors.... My guess is that the agencies are the real big time winners here... And they can't stop lauhing - on the contributors expence Kind regards Flemming
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« on: January 19, 2009, 09:55 »
Panthermedia is not doing as well for me as about one year ago, but they are still much better than 123rf and bigstockphoto. Sales are not very regular for me, but I know that some contributors make quite good earnings from them.
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Hi Freezingpictures.
Glad to finally "meet" someone who actually do have some sales there.
Would it be possible to see some links to the images that they have sold? I still haven't guessed what they want and what they are selling..
I have plenty of Editorial tip and reccomendations, but that does not attract any clicks or downloads...
Kind regards
Flemming
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