Derek Hildreth’s Blog

A Tour: The New Photo Galleries

Hello Family and Friends,

First of all, update your bookmarks to include http://www.23hq.com/SendDerek as our new photography organization and sharing site located at 23hq.com.

I would like to take a moment to give you a tour of how I am now presenting, sharing, and organizing my photos as mentioned earlier here .  Starting today, I will no longer be administering or using PicasaWeb as my photo organizing.  After using the features that it has and fiddling with it for more than a year, I have decided that it is less powerful than what I need.  So, I will be moving all of my pictures, starting from January of 2008, into 23hq .  Let me show you some of the features that convinced me to boot PicasaWeb out and switch to 23hq.

A video:

http://www.vimeo.com/1135217

In words:

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Tags: gallery, new, photo diary

The Hildreth Server

So, I just setup my laptop to run my own little HTTP server (called the Hildreth Server) so that friends and family can have access to ALL of my pictures in their full resolution glory. If you didn’t catch it before, it’s hosted on a laptop, so downtime will surely be there. It’s live whenever my laptop is on and connected to the internet. The address is http://sendderek.dyndns.org and I have included that link in the blogroll (on the right hand side of this page) for easy access. The only unfortunate side of this server is that it’s only going to be here until April, so you’d better take advantage of it now.

On the Hildreth Server, you’ll find it’s quite simple. There are a few links to various places included my pictures folder as well as my music folder. Also, there are a few links to some of my other places online. Here’s a screenshot for proof:

Now, there are some restrictions to the website. I didn’t want all of my pictures/music up for the whole world to see, so they have been password protected. If you are family or a friend, then you should have gotten the e-mail with the username and password for both places. If you’ve lost it, contact me with an email or instant message and I’ll get it to you again.

Thanks for checking it out!

For those geeks of you wondering, it’s powered by Apache and Fedora 8 Linux. I may write up a tutorial on how to setup your own webserver later. If you have any requests, just let me know. 

Tags: apache, fedora 8, friends and family, http, links, private, webserver