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Let’s talk about pictures, eh?

I have come across the realization that I am a funny picture freak. Wake up first thing in the morning and troll the usual suspects (Fark, the chans, APOD, the list is huge) looking for new and interesting pics to snag and hang on to.

Previously, I would just save the pictures to my hard drive, and then upload them to my colo box (one of the perks for working at a hosting company is the free server hosting. I have two), put them into a gallery and be done with it.

However, since computers are rumored to be time and labor saving devices, I decided to skip the middleman and just send the photos to my colo box directly instead.

Enter inject (I know, pretty crappy name, but what can you really call an app that just sends pics to another location?). It’s a PHP-based app and here’s what you do:

* Once uploaded to a Linux web server, go to the inject.php page, copy and paste in the code it generates into a bookmark in your browser

* Surf to some funny place with lots of pics.

* Hit the bookmarklet and it will generate a separate page with all of the images on it. Click on one to send it to your web server

* that’s it kids, about as easy as it gets

There’s 2 directories in there, one for multiple (it creates a daily directory to download pictures into, useful if you download shit tons of pics, like me) and there’s single (good for just dumping everything into one directory).

Anyway, it’s got a lot of features (renames images with unique hashes so you won’t clobber images if they all happen to have the same names, etc), so enjoy it. Released under a CC license.

Want to see some samples?

* multiple example, using thautoindex as the gallery software

* everything (nearly 700 pics) using bolGallery

Enjoy!

tom