Where can I upload images and files for use on MATLAB Answers?
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Where can I upload images and files for use on MATLAB Answers?
When you do upload, please use .zip files instead of .rar or .bzip or .7zip, as some systems cannot handle the other formats.
None of the following are officially supported by Mathworks, but they are some of the sites that people have found convenient to use.
One site per Answer, please, so people can comment about individual sites.
6 Comments
Oleg Komarov
on 21 May 2011
I really think the fourm should allows direct upload
sheen
on 21 May 2011
yes exactly
Jan
on 23 May 2011
Agree. A thread is meaningless in the future, if the upload service removes the contents after a month or year.
Sean de Wolski
on 23 May 2011
or disappears because The Evil Facebook buys it... drop.io we miss you!
Jim
on 15 Jun 2011
use blogger.com and give the link with your question
Jan
on 28 Apr 2012
We have 32'000 questions in this forum. A lot of them contain pictures, which are hosted on a bunch of servers and internet services. Non of them is officially supported by MathWorks. Whenever such a picture is deleted, the corresponding question and all its answers becomes meaningless. Therefore hosting the pictures on a MathWorks server is very important. In addition I really hate to be forwarded to ugly pages, which force me to enable JavaScript and overwhelm me with commercials.
The current strategy is equivalent to this policy:
After about a year a few important sentences are deleted from about 5% of the messages.
But this is obviously counterproductive in a forum, which was announced as a stable database for solutions. Therefore I boycott this thread: I do not vote for any of the mentioned services, because they are all insufficient workarounds for a problem, TMW could solve in minutes.
Accepted Answer
Jan
on 21 Sep 2013
2 votes
The problem has been solved ultimately by TMW: You can store the pictures directly on the forum's servers now.
4 Comments
Walter Roberson
on 22 Sep 2013
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 22 Sep 2013
Jan
on 22 Sep 2013
The US government applied a lot of pressure to Europe, to allow the import of genetically manipulated products. I'm convinced, that the NSA did not hack only our smart phones and records our emails, but they control the chicken also - even in space.
Sean de Wolski
on 23 Sep 2013
Walter Roberson
on 23 Sep 2013
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Walter Roberson
on 21 May 2011
5 votes
Jan
on 23 May 2011
4 votes
My favourite: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange ! I've used a link to a screenshot of one of my FEX submissions.
Every upload service in the internet must produce profit. Otherwise it will be closed very soon. Forwarding the traffic from this forum to any foreign service must support an obscure money making practice. Therefore I strongly suggest: Ask files@mathworks to disable Google-Analytics and to allow storing pictures on a Matlab server.
1 Comment
Walter Roberson
on 23 May 2011
Gurudatha Pai
on 14 Jun 2011
3 votes
I would put the files on my personal website or dropbox public folder and share a link ( http://www.dropbox.com). In both case, I would have total control over the content and both would not require registration and will stay there as long as I wish them to be there.
3 Comments
Walter Roberson
on 14 Jun 2011
James
on 23 Aug 2011
Dropbox are a widely-trusted service for filesharing. The publically viewable folders are, when setup, very easy to use (with files of any size - a major constraint on many imageuploaders), as you simply drop the file into the appropriate folder on your computer and give the url to whoever needs it.
It's legal-speak, but basically Dropbox are covering their backs, so that if you put/broadcast something online using their service and someone else takes it (as they can easily do) nothing comes back to bite Dropbox. They claim are for non-commercial use, as any business that misuses your content for commercial use is an actual target that can be sued, unlike anonomous individuals on the web.
But, if it needs protected, why would you put it on the internet publically anyway?
Paul T John
on 27 Aug 2011
Every file (say, a .zip file) in the public folder of Dropbox has a public link. It can be copied and pasted anywhere. When another person (need not be a Dropbox user) clicks the link, the .zip file is downloaded into the person's computer. The link is valid till the person who uploaded it decides them to stay there. He/she can even update the folder and the link would still be valid, provided the file-name is not changed.
Walter Roberson
on 21 Jun 2011
3 votes
Oleg Komarov
on 21 May 2011
2 votes
Supports resizing image to a particular size at time of upload.
No registration necessary to upload images.
4 Comments
Image Analyst
on 3 Jun 2011
My current favorite recommendation is tinypic.com.
Walter Roberson
on 6 Jun 2011
Image Analyst
on 6 Jun 2011
Isn't it this way on all "free" hosting sites, and even many pay sites? Which free site doesn't assume these rights for themselves?
Walter Roberson
on 7 Jun 2011
Walter Roberson
on 21 May 2011
2 votes
Walter Roberson
on 21 May 2011
Sean de Wolski
on 23 May 2011
2 votes
Upload house
- Makes it very easy to give a link directly to an image and to embed an image in an Answers post.
- No registration necessary.
- Allows for resizing on load
- Allows for password protection
This website does occasionally have highly inappropriate advertisements, but those are invisible to others as long as you embed the image in a post here.
3 Comments
Image Analyst
on 3 Jun 2011
I don't recommend this as they allow adult themed images and our corporate filter won't let that site come through. Unfortunate because it does have some benefits that the others don't.
Sean de Wolski
on 7 Jun 2011
IA, does that mean you can't see images in Answers that are just pulling an image from UploadHouse? Such as my second post in this thread:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7394-find-pixel-coordinates-value-of-a-centroid
?
Walter Roberson
on 7 Jun 2011
Walter Roberson
on 25 May 2011
2 votes
Walter Roberson
on 26 May 2011
2 votes
Walter Roberson
on 26 May 2011
2 votes
Walter Roberson
on 21 May 2011
1 vote
Walter Roberson
on 21 May 2011
1 vote
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Sean de Wolski
on 23 May 2011
Can sometimes be difficult (impossible) to save the image.
Arnaud Miege
on 23 May 2011
1 vote
I use my own Picasa Web Album. It takes a bit of work to link just the picture as opposed to the web page it's located on, but as it's my own album, I'm in relative control of the content - unless that is, Google suddenly decides to remove the contents.
1 Comment
Walter Roberson
on 23 May 2011
Walter Roberson
on 28 Apr 2012
1 vote
Walter Roberson
on 22 May 2012
0 votes
Image Analyst
on 7 Jan 2013
0 votes
Here is a very easy one for uploading images: snaggy: http://snag.gy/ You can copy a screen shot (using alt-printscreen), or copy a file from Windows Explorer (or whatever, using control-C), then goto snaggy and simply type control-v.
Advantages: easy to upload files via pasting, no registration required for anyone who uploads or downloads, one URL (versus having to choose from multiple different types on some other web sites), downloader can see image immediately with no additional clicks.
Disadvantages: it converts the image to jpeg so you may get jpeg artifacts.
3 Comments
Sean de Wolski
on 28 Jan 2013
Requires Chrome or Firefox.
Image Analyst
on 28 Jan 2013
Or Internet Explorer (which I just tested). I have not tested others (Safari, Opera, etc.).
Sean de Wolski
on 28 Jan 2013
For me, on IE8, it wanted to run a Java Applet, which with the recent security issues....
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