A Free TB of Online Storage for Any Data(via Flikr)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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“In a bid to revive interest in Flickr, Yahoo has redesigned its photo community website and increased the amount of free storage available to Flickr users to 1 terabyte…
The problem with using Flickr for general storage is that it’s only designed for images. To get around that, developer Ryan LeFevre has posted Ruby code to Github called flickr-store that lets users encode data as a .PNG image file, so it can be stored using Flickr.”
http://www.informationweek.com/storage/data-protection/flickr-can-store-any-data-not-just-photo/240155298

The Ruby code is at:

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Hmm I only have 50 GB of photos. I’m using Picasa Web. It’s time to consider Flickr now.

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Ha, I just heard about the 1 TB storage yesterday and pretty much within an hour wondered if there was a way to store regular data there. Since lossless picture formats are apparently an option, I guess it is possible after all unless of course Flickr were to say “hey, we decided to save some space and compress these images for you!”

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Since there’s already a discussion of this in Cafe Society, I’m going to redirect you all there. :slight_smile: