Ok, this is just a quick tutorial on saving you some time when hosting images. When most people host images they go to a hosting website, such as: PhotoBucket, MyPhotoLodge, Flickr, and lots more . Sometimes this is not free and it takes a long time just to upload one image so you can link to it. This really got on my nerves so I started uploading to my own servers because that is pretty much the fastest way to upload anything. After a while I had a bunch of clutter on my server and so I looked for another alternative. I eventually came across a Firefox add-on called ImageBot. As Geico would say, “It’s so easy even a caveman can do it!”. This pretty much is the case with ImageBot.

Click here to download ImageBot for Firefox click the download button, and restart firefox. Make sure you have the ImageBot plugin enabled and you should see an icon somewhere that says, “ImageBot”. If you click the little arrow next to it, it should bring down a a list that says, “Float, Tab, Patcher, and Help. If you click on the “Float” button, ImageBot will open in another window just like a regular program. If you click on the “Tab” button, ImageBot will open in a new tab within firefox. If you click on the “Patcher” button, it will give you options to patch the plugin if you’re having trouble updating it. Lastly, the “Help” button, this is for any help you need for anything that I haven’t covered or if you forgot how to do something.

Now for the next part, actually using the plugin. I usually just open it in a new Fire-Fox tab, but this is just my preference. In the bottom right corner you should see a button that says, “Upload Images”. Click that and you should have a box come up showing your computer. Now just navigate to your image or images that you would like to upload and select them all, click open, and wait a few seconds for it to show you a thumbnail of your pictures in ImageBot. Once this is completed just right click on the picture and click copy. You now have the link to the image copied so just go to the place that you wish to link to it from and paste it there.

There are many other options for sorting and tweaking things inside ImageBot, but I am going to let you mess around with those things because you don’t need to know how to use those to be able to use the plug-in.

I looked for a while and couldn’t find any tutorials that told you how to set up a mail account that is privately hosted, with your iTouch or iPhone. This gave me a perfect oppurtunity to be the first one to teach everyone that doesn’t know.

For this tutorial you don’t need to have it be jailbroken. First get out your iPhone or iPod Touch and make sure you have the mail application already installed. Then go to settings and mail. Choose add account and pick other. Now you need to open up your mail client with your privately hosted mail account in it.

For me this program is Outlook Express so if you’re running anything else you will just have to try and follow along.

If you are using Outlook Express, then go to tools, then accounts. Find your account you want for your iPod and select it. Once this is done just click on the properties button. Click on the servers tab and at teh top it should say, “my incoming mail server is”. Whatever it says after that is the tab you are going to click on your iPhone/iTouch.

Now, back on your iPod, fill in the name and address blanks. To find your host name go back to your computer and under the servers tab again take whats in the incoming mail spot and put that in the host name blank on your iPod.

Now for the user name and password. To find these look under the servers tab again and in the middle there should be a spot that says account and password. Take those and put those in the user name and password blanks on your iTouch.

Now last, but not least the host name that is under outgoing mail server (SMTP). For this just look right under where you got the other host name that was for the incoming mail server. Just take that and fill it in on the iTouch. Leave the last username and password blank and click save in the top right corner. This may take a while and might come up with some kind of error. If it does be sure to check for misspellingings. If it says cannot connect using SMTP click try without and when its done just send a test email to that address and check it on your iTouch/iPhone. If it shows up then your good to go. If it doesn’t just let me know and I’ll try to walk you through it.

Below is a video showing you what you just read.