Tim
Life is good Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Kalamazoo

When I'm designing the site I can normally come up with some descent ideas on how to make things work, how to lay it out, features to add and things like that. But I also take design inspiration from other sources as well when it comes to usability. One place that is a constant source of ideas is Facebook! So I've decided to tackle a huge issue, getting my pictures from my phone, to a gallery on the site, without having to connect my phone to the computer; enter MMS messaging.

So in the next couple of weeks along with the release of version 5 or the site, I'll be adding the ability to MMS (that's picture message) your photos to a unique email address made just for you. Then they will auto magically upload to a special gallery for you. Of course, I'm not as rich, or as powerful, or as talented, or many, many other things as Facebook, so the images will not instantly be on the site (but pretty darn close). To start with, I'll be checking every 5 minutes for new messages. Once I know everything is going well, I'll increase the frequency and make it a little faster.

This feature along with a UI revamp, better gallery paging, and a whole host of other new features is under final testing right now and due out in the next week or so. I have a few more screws to turn to really tighten things down and correct a few last bugs and implement at least one more function before it'll be ready, but I really think you're going to like some of the new features and speed that's going to be introduced to the site.