Earlier this week, Jen asked me to print about 600 photos from my iPhoto. I printed out the first 100 here at home, before I realized how expensive the project would become. For example, 100 sheets of 4×6 photo paper cost about $12.00/package. Ink cartridges run about $40.00/each, and this many pictures would require several of them. Given these pricey conditions, I decided to find an online photo lab that could do the printing instead. A Google search brought me to Winkflash. The site’s pricing looked good, so I signed up. I made several attempts to upload my photos to the Winkflash site. Because I’m a Mac user, I was forced to use the site’s Java-based upload tools. These tools suck. They are slow and they do not work. I tried at least five times to upload my files using these Java-based services. Each time, the Winkflash site either timed out or gave me a “proxy error.” In Winkflash’s defense, I didn’t bother to contact the company’s tech support, and they do provide a toll-free support phone number right there on the upload page. But I don’t want to talk to anyone. I want to upload my photos. Winkflash touts the ease of use of its “Transporter” application. But Transporter is Windows-only. And yeah, I have a Windows box here. But I don’t want to transfer all these files to that machine, just to transfer them again to Winkflash. So I’m done with Winkflash. I’ve moved on to another site, and I’m in the process of uploading my images to that site now.
I will report on my experience with that site when I’m done with it.
My sister and I print a lot of photos. We use to use Winkflash exclusively but their uploader got worse and worse. To the point where it didn’t even work on Windows in Internet Explorer. It just wouldn’t take my photos! So when my sister and I print photos we use Kodak Gallery (Ofoto). They have a Mac upload tool which works great. I haven’t tried Flickr for printing but their prices seem a bit high.
Thanks for the Kodak suggestion, Andy! Will try it later today.
Just testing out the new CAPTCHA plugin. If this gets posted, then that means it worked.
Did you add in your own custom words in the options? Did you install the SpamBam plugin? That will help tremendously, too.
I wonder why the gravatars aren’t working on your site.
I did add custom words for the CAPTCHA’s, Andy. Haven’t installed SpamBam yet, though. Do you know if SpamBam helps with trackback spam? I’ve always had more problems with that than anything else.
And I’m not sure about the Gravatars I used the Gravatar plugin and made only one change to the settings. (Changed image size to 40 from the default 80.) I’ll have to do some research later, see if I can figure it out.
As far as I know, it should. However, I have not experienced a lot of trackback spam. Since installing the plugins (I use Akismet, SpamBam and Peter’s AntiSpam words) I literally see zero spam comments or trackbacks. Maybe I’m not as popular as your blog, though!
I just think that in my case, the spammer that stalks this site prefers to generate trackbacks instead of comments. I’m just lucky in that way.
I’ve been using Winkflash for about 3 years now. While their uploading options for Mac use to suck - I’ve not had ANY problems via their drag-n-drop uploader on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 using Firefox 3. I’m curious as to what OS/Browser combo you are using and whether or not the problem is truly on your end. I use their uploader on a G4 Powerbook, a G5 desktop, and an Intel MacMini with no problems at all.
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