If you're anything like us, you've tried and failed to convince your friends and family to agree to the use of a single social networking site to make staying in touch a no fuss affair. With Mom on Twitter, your old roommate on Facebook and your co-workers all rocking out on MySpace (um...really?), sharing your life can be a real pain -- especially when it comes to firing off a few photos to everyone you want to keep in your personal loop. Fortunately, thanks to a slick new web-based service, sharing your image files across multiple platforms has never been easier.
Let's get started!
For those of you that haven't already embraced the awesome power of this snazzy photo-sharing service, this is going to make your day. Dropico is a one-stop shop that allows you to upload your photos and send them out across multiple social networking platforms all at once.
At this time, Dropico's site is a Flash-heavy affair, making it a bag of hurt for iOS device owners, even when viewed using SkyFire. Not to worry though: Dropico has iPod touch and iPhone users covered, thanks to the the service's mobile email uploading capabilities.
To get started with Dropico, you're gonna need an account. Navigate to their website, and click the Create Account link. Dropico will whisk you through a brief sign-up process, asking for some basics such as your email address and a password to use with their service. Once you've given Dropico what it needs, you'll be sent a confirmation email to make sure that you're actually, well, you. Once you've confirmed your information you can move along to Step Three.
Now that you're a bona fide Dropico user, you're gonna want to tell the service what social networks to link to. Select the social networks from the list provided by Dropico and enter the requested credentials for each. Once you've done so, a toggle switch will appear next to the services you've selected, making it a breeze to turn sharing for each on or off.
As we mentioned earlier, Dropico's website uses a lot of Flash resources to get the job done. Despite this hurdle, there's no reason not to rock their service on an iOS device. As part of your account setup, Dropico will issue you a personalized email address that you can send photos from your mobile phone or iOS devices with. We suggest entering it into your address book so that you won't have to worry about remembering it later.
Now that you've set your account up just so, you're gonna want to upload some photos to that bad boy. Select the social networks you want to work with by clicking their icons in the top right-hand corner of the the Dropico interface. A pane for each social network you selected will appear.
Once you've opened up the panes for each corresponding social network, simply click on the pictures that you uploaded to one social network--Flickr, for example--and then drag those pictures to the pane you want to transfer them to. Progress bars will mark how far along each photo is to being completely transferred.
Uploading via email
As aforementioned, you were assigned your very own .mobi email address to use with the Dropico service. If you snap a picture on your phone, you can upload them to the Dropico service and have them stored safely in your queue so that you can upload them at a later time.
Dropico's not just a handy tool for sharing and transferring your photos across multiple social networks. It also has basic photo editing capabilities built right into it. At times when your pictures need a quick tweak or Photoshop's not available, simply right click on the photo you want to work with and select Edit. You'll be presented with three different application options to sort your photo editing needs out in short order.
Now that you've figured out how to take less time uploading and sharing your photos, you can spend more time away from your computer taking fabulous pictures to share!
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angela391
January 13, 2011 at 11:26am
this is cool dude. Only problem is when you have a slow internet connection. Takes years to download! Well not literally. But it really takes a lot of time.
