Faster and Easier Image Hosting
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.
Just go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1174 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.
