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Currently on ipernity 'Photos' pages the following notice is shown on right margin: "It is recommended to have GPS data in the meta data (EXIF) of the images before the initial upload." The reason why this recommendation is given is that the Google Maps quota may become exceeded easily if many users search and use it get geolocation for already uploaded images. To avoid this it would help if more people would start to define geolocation before uploading the images. How to do that d…

People often wonder how the images become picked to ipernity Explore . And here I try to figure it out and explain, as well as I can. The very first thing one needs to understand is that Explore is more or less an overview on what is popular during last few days. However, popularity is a tricky concept. One should keep in mind that what is popular may not match with any subjective or shared understanding on what is quality . If number of ipernity members like images of fences, or more p…

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We are "social media nomads", not like those who are travelling around the world and keeping their personal blog or vlog about it, but folks who try to survive in the jungle of social media services. We try to find best and cheapest place to share our creativity and hunger for inspiration. And what makes us as nomads is the fact that nothing seems to continue forever, especially not the social media services. Who remembers such communities as Multiply and My Opera? Who will soon remember Pan…

Here are some useful sources to understand what all can be protected by copyright laws, and what copyright is about: Copyright rules by subject matter explained at Wikimedia Commons. And the same in French . Intellectual property wiki People often take the copyright lightly, ignores it, or simply don't know it very well. We easily refer to fair use , which more or less covers only cases in United States, but should not be stretched to cover publications globally shared on Inte…

We just got the meta description fixed, which should help "advertising" our wonderful web site elsewhere. We mentioned this on our Facebook page. The post has now received promising ~450 views but only very few likes and shares: www.facebook.com/ipernity/posts/10155275339706771 What we really need is people sharing the awesomeness of this web site with their friends elsewhere. It does not work if only the "official ima team" tries to share few posts here and there, when our social media…

I saw this rather interesting news shared on social media, and thought it may interest also peeps around here: ➽ Camera sales are falling sharply by Om Malik So, supposedly phone cameras are taking over. Whether this is a bad or good thing depends on the point of view. Someone could call that as a "progress", and some may see it as a "paradigm shift". Or it can be even a "philosophical revolution". We all can't be masters of photography and professionals, but that should not stop…

Microsoft is planning to include the controversial NewsGuard on its new Edge browser. Where the world is going? I have noticed Google has started to do something similar, and warning users about insecure actions, like writing this on non secured web page (http). And before someone comments anything on that, please remember: Ipernity login and subscriptions use and have always used secured connection (https). So, if someone hacks me while submitting this blog article, that is no problem. I was…

Every now and then I test sharing private images only on groups, and get some interesting results. What I mean is that I keep the image as "Visible by: Me only", but then I share it on some group. What happens is that ipernity asks if I really do wish to share the image on the chosen group, and let other group members to see and comment the image. The test part is to find out if people actually view my image within the group context at all. And then the test reveals if the group is actually…

Once again I was switching the browser, this time from Opera to Chrome. I recalled the Stylish extension (add-on, plugin), which Spotomy recommended almost year ago: www.ipernity.com/blog/spo/4655884 Therefore I uploaded the latest Spotomy's dark style for ipernity also to userstyles.org. Now one should be able to get it into use more easily, and maybe also on more browsers. 1. First find and install Stylish extension for your browser (add-on, plugin): Chrome: chrome.google.com…

First things first. In my opinion a good group requires the joined forces. The more the merrier is often true. But it then also means that one has to be ready to compromise. If you wish to administrate a group alone, then you may not reach the success. And that is because the group can not grow beyond certain limits. Groups administrated alone are in danger to turn into a dumping grounds. People may continue contributing in them, but they really never visit the group pages to see what other grou…

UPDATED on 25.9.2020 It looks like DownThemAll developers have been busy to get it running with FireFox (Mozilla) again . However, the Metalink format used here on ipernity is not supported ! This is why one still have to either 1) use other methods , 2) use SeaMonkey and an older version of DownThemAll, as instructed below, or 3) wait until one fine day we get the whole ipernity reprogrammed. If the following old versions of Seamonkey and DownThemAll compo is not an option f…

Welcome to my new guestbook! Please add greetings below on comments. If you belong to my contacts as a friend, you can also include images. If not, you can always ask to become as my friend ;-)

I am an administrator only on very few groups, but I still sometimes wish to have a tool that gives me a clear notice when a new comment becomes posted on some of the group discussions. The News > Your groups is not good in my opinion, because I still have to remember visit that page in order to stay up to date. So, I figured out I give a try to RSS feeds provided here at ipernity. Here's a short introduction and an example on how to use them. Install RSS feed reader extension…

Lately I have given a great deal of time and thought for what is commonly called as "street photography". It is more or less a genre of taking images of people one does not know. Usually it is about images of people in urbain area, but it can be any human figure seen anywhere. Please have a look at this Jamie Windsor's video 'Why you SHOULDN'T do STREET PHOTOGRAPHY' and give it a thought. So far street photography that includes human figures have never been my genre, and I guess it…

I decided to start a new article, which I will update every now and then. I collect here useful online services discovered on Web. ➽ Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator Useful tool for testing your images and graphs, to see how they look for someone who has some color vision handicap. ➽ Linguee A very useful service to find out how different words and phrases translate into other languages. Linguee gives examples of various contexts. Here's an example how English expression "o…

Here's a thing you may have wondered. How to remove some of your group contributions from a group where you are no longer a member? The very first problem is to find the images. For that you have several options. Search on your photos with the group name You or someone else may have mentioned the group name on your photo pages. If the group name is unique, then go to your " Photos ". Then open the drop down menu from the " Photos ". Write the group name there in the search field as…

Thanks to my ipernity friend Fred, I had a look on old but still available Picasa 3 for Windows. With Picasa you can rather easily add geolocation onto images and export smaller copies for web. Do notice you can use Picasa only to add the geolocation. You don't need Google Earth for that. What you need is to download and install Picasa . Start from light blue button saying "Latest version". That seem to be reliably web site enough. The installer I downloaded was virus free according to com…

I start to record here Canon G5X tips for myself and for anyone interested. I will update the article whenever more becomes discovered. Keep your camera protected against dust and moist This is useful tip for any "pocket camera". Use so called reclosable plastic bag (zipper bag) to protect your camera against dust. 1/2 litter (0.13 gallon) plastic bag is just perfect for most of the pocket cameras. To slip the camera in and out of the bag is surprisingly easy once you get used to it. Y…

You can search somewhat anything on ipernity. But what you may not know are all the tweaks you can do to limit the search. Search for all cat photos (up to 1000) Write simply cat on top of the pages, onto field with "Search for people and more...", and select "Search for photos" from the drop down menu. www.ipernity.com/search/photo?w=0&q=cat The default search parameters then give you the most relevant photos where somewhere on the image title, caption, keywords or comment…