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« on: November 25, 2011, 03:34 »
B.M.E. too. BME? This isn't the Dreamstime forum. You can whine! 
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« on: November 25, 2011, 03:28 »
Have you ever done a whois search on who owns that domain? I was surprised haha, yeah me too
It's a small world after all.  (Great scraping, bad CSS, what's the password? )
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« on: November 24, 2011, 03:59 »
NOTE: As soon as you get the payment (uncovered cheque), you will deduct $200 and wire the remaining balance to the wardrobe stylist (certainly before your bank finds out the Nigerian cheque isn't covered). Ha, it's refreshing to see this good old scam is still alive and kicking. The key word is wiring. If the stylist lived near you, why should you wire her?
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« on: November 24, 2011, 03:45 »
We are aware that there is an issue with RC levels appearing to be reset.
We are aware that acceptance rates have been reset to zero.
We are aware that royalties are incorrectly using the base rate for everyone.
We are aware that last downloads keeps jumping back to a previous date.[/i][/b] We should give them some sort of an awareness prize for their efforts.
Perhaps they grew aware that the dog ate some of the punched cards on which they store their code after finding some holes spilled on the floor. Or perhaps the senior programmer dropped the box with punched cards on the floor Friday 4pm and no time left to put them back in the proper sequence. They should really upgrade to paper tape and keep the dog at home.
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« on: November 23, 2011, 20:22 »
A raid is fine if you need all those data constantly online in a rather secure fashion. If you just need the recent shoots/takes online, it's probably overkill. Plain archiving on internal hard drives is cheap if you mount/dismount them in a sledge. For those purposes, you don' need fast spinners or a lot of cache. Make sure to keep them stored in a dry cool site and certainly unpowered since most accidents happen by dropping, floods or power surges (lightning).
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« on: November 23, 2011, 19:41 »
I was once on Dreamstime's top 10 list too.. now who knows where I am. Far down for sure. The DT rank site ( http://www.dtrank.com) became password protected and there has never been any contact info on it.
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« on: November 21, 2011, 09:26 »
As I said, in the case of Alamy, they contact you to ask if you've sold it anywhere else. See? Gostwyck was sortof right. I can't imagine an RM image not being exclusive. How can different RM agencies synchronize geo locations and durations? Pardon my ignorance but as a buyer I would be very pissed off if a competitor used the same image in the same geo location because he licensed it at another agency. Isn't that contradictory to the RM concept? If so, he could as well have bought RF at 1% of the price.
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« on: November 20, 2011, 22:40 »
You say tomato, I say tomato. Message bodies on the MSG are picked up by Google and count as incoming links. You can avoid it by posting site [dot] com. People can still type the site in their browser URL field but the link doesn't count. Thanks for mentioning. How's cutcaster [dot] com?
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« on: November 20, 2011, 04:47 »
Their first languauage does not seem to be English. No contact info on their site, but they do have a registered whois. It's French, I recognize her Belgian (or Walloon) Franglais (Frenglish) ("more infos" = " plus d'infos"). Aline, Durand (ALINEDUR721) rue fontaine michaux 32 Nivelles, , 1400 Belgium. What a tart, she doesn't even know how to hide her whereabouts. Nivelles or Nijvel is in the Walloon French speaking substate of Belgium. No EL's of course, and this is a product for sale. Do I send a take-down, or any suggestions how to approach this? You can't send a DMCA since this is only valid in the US. Nevertheless Belgium has very strict copyright laws. I'm not there right now, so sorry. If so I could give her a local call since she is in the white pages.You can write an email to the commercial dept of the American Embassy in Brussels. You can also send an email to the FCC unit, the Belgian Federal Computer Crime unit. I suggest you do both. http://www.polfed-fedpol.be/crim/crim_fccu_auteur_nl.php (for copyright infringements and theft of IP) Register your complaint here: https://www.ecops.be/webforms/Default.aspx?Lang=EN (English) You're welcome Update: mss. Aline Durand has no record in the list of Belgian businesses so you could frame her on tax evasion too.
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« on: November 19, 2011, 21:36 »
Some days ago I think about it. Could be keywords? Or just images it self ? db update? It's easy to check. Take a set of 3 distinctive keywords from 1 image of your recent upload and do a search. On DT, it takes exactly 3 days (make sure to sort by relevance/descending and not by downloads/descending). I didn't check on CanStockPhoto yet. What's more, it's not because an image is addressed by the keywords DB that it will get views immediately, certainly not at CanStockPhoto.
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« on: November 19, 2011, 11:15 »
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« on: November 19, 2011, 05:55 »
I really don't understand DT move; Ok, they remove the weekly sub but why they remove also the 1mounth 10/day  i believe they will send many buyers ( the small and middle ones ) to the competition especially to 123RF. I have no clue of course but my guess is that they found out that the small subs packages were cannibalizing slowly the credits sales, especially since DT subs have no size limit. You made already a profit the first day on a subs package if you wanted 5 XL sizes. Subs packages were not intended for low volume "poor" buyers but for large design houses or media that need a lot (perhaps just for comping). The "poor" buyers that need an image once in a while can still get level 1-2 images for 3 credits only, level 1 images for 1 credit. If a small business is going to break its neck over a couple of bucks, it's borderline anyways. Bottom line is that DT refuses to join the race to the bottom and if 123RF wants to play that game, they're going to lose contributors. My highest credit sale on DT the past 3 days (excluding 2 EL's) was 8.50$ and on 123RF over the whole of November just 2.6$. Some buyers looking for paying peanuts will end up getting monkeys. If they can't afford 1$ for a well-shot licensed image, they can go shoot it themselves or dig in the free image sites. End of rant.
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« on: November 19, 2011, 05:32 »
To err is human but why the mistakes are always in their favor? Amazing
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« on: November 18, 2011, 23:01 »
Just copy the files from your backup. The right time to do a backup is an hour before your HD crashes. Before that time, backups are just a waste of time. 
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« on: November 18, 2011, 22:52 »
That is all well and good but then why do the stats look the way they do for the other micros? You mean istock users somehow have different computer use behaviour - somehow inherently different to SS users? SS buyers are active at public computers but IS buyers are not? We can argue the accuracy of the actual numbers perhaps but I don't think you can argue against the trending - how do you explain IS trending down and the other sites trending up? Can anyone seriously put forth an argument that IS need not be concerned that their trend is down and their competitors are trending up? It will of course be the same for all agencies but my point was rather that Alexa's data are pretty irrelevant for sales on all sites. Why a trend might go down? Perhaps because they catch less random traffic (by Google Images for instance) by some non-sales related events. iStock is for instance losing ground on Google Images while SS and DT are very prominent on the first search page. For a site depending on views and clicks for ads at the contrary, Alexa might be very relevant as the toolbar-installers are a fair statistical sample of the general population. I don't feel that netcafe visitors are a fair sample of professionals going to buy a > 20$ specific product. You can as well hypothesize that iStock did a good job averting useless random traffic that just eats resources watching their Google Analytics. I remember as a student walking in a very fancy Ferrari showroom in Brussels long ago with worn out sneakers. A very friendly salesman suggested me to leave the premises as apparently I hadn't pockets deep enough to buy one of those goodies. A good salesman has a nose for those things. I was just "random traffic" and he didn't want to waste his time.
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« on: November 18, 2011, 22:35 »
Hello all, as the title says when you upload images on canstock how long can expect before you start to get views...not a problem but I uploaded my first batch of images a week ago and it looks like I have had 1 view.. I brought CanStockPhoto up to date with the past 1/2 year's images about 2-3 days ago and they don't have any views yet. They are pretty slow in general although an EL once in a while makes up for it. Apart from that, it's run by a very nice and responsive guy and the upload and MRF attribution works like a charm. The site has always been the best programmed one around. I guess they update their keyword DB about every week, as it is very resource-intensive. Dreamstime takes about 3 days to index new images into the keywords DB.
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« on: November 18, 2011, 22:13 »
I noticed that some agencies import different fields as title. Yes, what a mess. Veer is terrible at it, all others in the microstock world are quite OK. I always write the same title to 3 fields: Title, Headline writer and Object name (as called in XnView and ExifTool; names may vary slightly) The confusion stems from the fact that that the object name really wasn't intended for holding the title in the pre-micro world (like News photos) but the Caption writer or rather headline was. Object name should hold the file name. Here is a page where the IPTC scheme is explained with a list of both Mac- and Windows programs that treat IPTC. The list is not up to date though.
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« on: November 18, 2011, 22:00 »
brilliant production I was looking at those fantastic stabilized helicopter shots that must have been made with a very strong tele, at least some (the farmers for instance). I wonder what equipment they used. I have been once in a heli above the Grand Canyon and the thing vibrated like hell, not to mention the terrible turbulence at low altitude. You can get rid probably of small amplitude vibrations, but not of high amplitude turbulence.
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« on: November 18, 2011, 21:31 »
By the way, Alexa collects data on browsing from computers which have the Alexa toolbar installed. How many of the world's computers have the toolbar. Less than half maybe? Probably much less, but what's more, it is installed on irrelevant computers. Public PC's in netcafes for instance or with users so dumb they install it accidentally then don't know how to remove it. Not buyers in any case since they need all the screen real estate for content. The only reliable measurement could come from Google for those sites that have Google Analytics on but I'm sure Google won't release those numbers for free.
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« on: November 18, 2011, 06:52 »
Regarding model releases, when you upload your photos via FTP into the photos folder, you simply upload any model releases needed for those photos into the model_releases folder for that batch. That's all there is to it, no need to select and assign them afterwards etc  This sounds like a very cumbersome procedure and I sent you a PM about it. (deleted - upload works great, except for the releases)
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« on: November 18, 2011, 06:44 »
thanks cascoly. could you mention which particular lower level sites are you talking about ? what about photodune... how is sell there ? PD is catering for designers mostly, not media etc... So it has no editorial. For the others I should mention I had some private conversations with OP and IMHO he should start with Alamy first as his main outlet as only editorial seems to be in his reach for now, given his conditions and surround. Probably DT too.
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« on: November 18, 2011, 06:33 »
Portfolio reviews to be accepted as a contributor are generally even quicker, usually 24 hours or less Less
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