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[BuffaloHelp]

The acquisition of ImageFilez.com by Xisto Corporation, the parent company of Trap17, was finalized on the end of August 2006. And as you can see, the easy upload tool bar can be found near the header/shoutbox area.

ImageFilez.com is similar to ImageShack or Photobucket. You can upload different file types, resize images and use it as free image hosting facility. It's a great tool when you want to save your precious bandwidth usage.

Please feel free to signup and create a new account. If there are any suggestions post your thoughts here.

Thank you everyone and keep supporting Xisto Corporation!

[Plenoptic]

Xisto is always growing. Congrats on the aquisition. I'm glad to see Xisto continues to grow. Soon it'll be like Google and Xisto will own the internet

[Zero Ziat]

Woah. Nice, I think Xisto can achieve even more than Google.

Plus, the name pwns.

[Johnny]

Er...I could have sworn I've seen that days ago... o_o

[jlhaslip]

You probably did in the Staff section. This makes it official and public.

Another notch in the belt. Go, Opaque.

[Albus Dumbledore]

hey, couple more notch's in the belt and it might be able to fit me!!


haha anyways, congrats trap17 and xisto network, and OpaQue

[the_aggie10]

im not trying to be mean but why would we need that there? it is pretty cool that this network is growing....i would like to see google defeated muahah....but either way congrats on the expansion

Edited by the_aggie10, 01 October 2006 - 08:48 PM.

[rvalkass]

Congratulations on the acquisition, and it's good to see Xisto is ever growing and explanding across the Internet.

[BuffaloHelp]

the_aggie10, on Oct 1 2006, 02:31 AM, said:

im not trying to be mean but why would we need that there? (sorry about the on-liner)

Well, the tool is there but what it needs is how people will be using it. For example, you can host pictures for ebay items...save pictures in ImageFilez.com instead of your website to save on space and bandwidth, let other people see your uploaded image(s) and have it rated etc...

The limitation is your imagination.

[mama_soap]

BuffaloHELP, on Oct 1 2006, 02:29 PM, said:

The limitation is your imagination.

That's an interesting way of putting it.

Anyway, been looking around at imagefilez for a while now - frankly it'll take me a while to switch over fully, since I use an extension called imagebot that synchrnoizes with two other imagehosting companies (is it legal to mention competition?), and I'm just too used to right click > upload.

I do have a couple of queries, though. There is a section called "host plans" at image filez, but it seems to show a single plan (or am I missing something?). Also, the details indicate that watermarking is not possible, but I think most users would watermark their own images before uploading it... or is this supposed to imply that ever image hosted at imagefilez under the free plan would carry the watermark of imagefilez?

Finally, I think there should be some way of indicating that an image might contain potentially offesnive/mature content. I already managed to stumble on images that *I* would consider "rated" - I would appreciate a fair warning very very much, since the default categorization doesn't help very much

In short, some features I'd like to see:

• A slightly different logo, perhaps something that makes the link up between Xisto and ImageFilez more obvious?
  
• A firefox extension or something that would allow users to interact with imagefilez directly?
  
• I have some really minor nits about slightly off-set backgrounds at some parts of the site, maybe I'll give a more detailed account later
  
• The "copy" button that displays a javascript alert... oh, well, I'm just wondering if one could do without it.
  
• Filtering content, and at least flagging potentially offensive content, is very important as far as I'm concerned...

Anyway, having said all that...... congratulations!! I'm really delighted at this new addition to the Xisto network Here's my first upload at ImageFilez:



Cool stuff!
Keep at it, and congratulations again

Edited by mama_soap, 01 October 2006 - 10:44 AM.

[gameratheart]

BuffaloHELP, on Sep 30 2006, 11:05 PM, said:

The acquisition of ImageFilez.com by Xisto Corporation, the parent company of Trap17, was finalized on the end of August 2006. And as you can see, the easy upload tool bar can be found near the header/shoutbox area.

ImageFilez.com is similar to ImageShack or Photobucket. You can upload different file types, resize images and use it as free image hosting facility. It's a great tool when you want to save your precious bandwidth usage.

Please feel free to signup and create a new account. If there are any suggestions post your thoughts here.

Thank you everyone and keep supporting Xisto Corporation!

Congratulations, Xisto Corporation! And all the staff involved in it! I can see great new possibilities in this acquisition. Not to mention the benefits to your own company - continued expansion and a wider market!

Keep up the good work!

[FLaKes]

Thankyou Xisto and Trap17 people, this is a great tool. Keep it up, your free hosting and now free image hosting solutions are great. You guys rock.!

[serverph]

a noteworthy addition to the xisto network.

this i've been meaning to ask, admins BH & Opaque: does the embedded imagefilez upload form above utilize java? it is just that i noticed it for days already (since the imagefilez form was introduced to trap17 forums) that java gets loaded in my system whenever i login here. i'm using firefox btw, and i see the java icon loaded in my notification area/system tray in my daily visits on trap17.

[Dooga]

Just to let you know... our school blocks imagefilez...

Maybe because it's just too famous and the schools are afraid that students will be taken over by the Xisto Corporation... lol

[mayank]

That is an awesome news that xisto networks has acquired another comapny. I am sure that xisto will grow much more than what it is at this point of time. OpaQue is doing exteremly good job in the field of free as well as paid hosting...Keep up the good work buddy.

[AeonLan]

As always. Xisto and Trap17 will continue to grow larger and larger. XXD

Congratulations GuYs! ^_~ Two Thumbs up!

[Panzer]

Hey looks good
Hopefully it'll pay off for you guys, im sure it will

[Shadowcast]

Nice work on the expansion, it appears to be going well. I hope you every success with the new venture, and hope you can help to not only provide a killer service yourselves but to help improve the more mainstream image hosting services (they know who they are) as to me these have always been a bit lacking (something which I cannot say about Trap17). To be Honest I didn't see Xisto going to far away from all out site hosting, I guess this proves me wrong (well this and all of the other services I just realised Xisto provided) ... anyway Good Luck.

Edited by Shadowcast, 02 October 2006 - 09:06 PM.

[darran]

This is definitely an improvement in the service. There is much more convenience while posting in trap17. No more needs to go to a seperate URL like imageshack, upload the image and then copy the url and enclose it with the relevant tags. Good move by Xisto.

[elevenmil]

Nicely done. Furthermore, I would like to thank you for continuing to spread the links for the partners sites especially mine IPB Gaming

Continue to prosper!

[Zero Ziat]

Gee, I can even see an upload bar up there. <3

Good work, Xisto corp.!

[BuffaloHelp]

Since ImageFilez was bought from a previous company not under the same terms as Xisto, it will take some time until filters can be placed--if at all. It's something that OpaQue can only answer.

The burning question is why ImageFilez over other image hosting sites? Well one cool thing currently is that you can zoom in or out by using mouse fly wheel right at your browser. Using mama_soap's image http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?s=&...st&p=285444 place your mouse anywhere on the picture. Then roll your mouse fly wheel (that's the one used for page scrolling up and down) and you'll see that an image can be zoomed in or out. It's great if you're showing off highly detailed picture.

If you have not registered for ImageFilez account, the image uploaded will feature "www.imagefilez.com" watermark at the lower right hand corner.

[arnz]

Congratulations on the acquisition and lets hope that Xisto which brought us Trap17 will continue to grow. IMHO, Imagefilez and Trap17 hosting together will provide a efficient package towards free ad-free subdomain hosting with all the bonuses. All the best with the venture

[Johnny]

jlhaslip, on Sep 30 2006, 10:31 PM, said:

You probably did in the Staff section. This makes it official and public.

Another notch in the belt. Go, Opaque.

Ah, right.

Well then, congrats to Xisto for another accomplishment. <3

[Sprnknwn]

Congratulations for this acquisition. Image uploaders are something that I use a lot... linking avatars, showing image to friends, post them on forums, it´s very useful. I´ve always used imageshack. I´ll bookmark this and try to use it in the future.

It´s a really good way to make xisto a more integrated company, with different services. Good luck, I´m sure we will use I a lot in these forums too, to upload sigs, avatars, photos, etc.