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.
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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.
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Jan
on 21 Sep 2013
The problem has been solved ultimately by TMW: You can store the pictures directly on the forum's servers now.
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Jan
on 23 May 2011
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.
Gurudatha Pai
on 14 Jun 2011
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.
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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.
Oleg Komarov
on 21 May 2011
Supports resizing image to a particular size at time of upload.
No registration necessary to upload images.
Sean de Wolski
on 23 May 2011
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.
Arnaud Miege
on 23 May 2011
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.
Image Analyst
on 7 Jan 2013
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.
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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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