Up2Me notes

From Julian Yap

Short description

Up2me allows you to simply upload media to your own hosting provider web space. Thumbnails are automatically generated and you are given the HTML code to add to your site or blog post. Why rely on 3rd party media hosting providers?

Long description

Up2me allows you to simply upload media to your own hosting provider web space. Thumbnails are automatically generated and you are given the HTML code to add to your site or blog post. Why rely on 3rd party media hosting providers with their heavy terms and conditions when you can simply use Up2me?

This will be programmed in Python using Python standard libraries and the Python Image Library.

In the future, I plan to use the additional libraries:

- GTK runtime
- pygtk
- py2exe
- Nullsoft (NSIS) installer

This will be a cross-platform application but will also have a Windows executable build.

This software was written to simplify the process of image and media uploading, thumbnail generation and HTML code generation. This is offerered as a service on many web sites such as ImageShack.us but come with heavy terms and conditions such as images which have not been accessed for a year are then deleted.

The major technical obstacle will be creating something simple enough for people to install and configure. The integration with the Operating System, application flow and intuitiveness of usage is also a big concern.

Major features:

- GUI interface
- Windows installer
- FTP upload
- FTP upload progress
- Thumbnail generation
- Simple configuration
- Operating System integration (through righ-click)
- Cross-platform
- HTML code generation

Supported network protocols:

- FTP
- HTTP