Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:56 pm
Much as I didn't want the hassle or expense, I opened an account with Zenfolio as they now have an iPad app. I am at my summer place for a couple of months and the only net connection I have for uploading is my iPad. While there are freebie photo services that have iPad apps, I don't care for their presentation or other settings, so I chose Zenfolio. That doesn't mean that I won't continue to use Pbase as I have about 6000 images stored in many galleries and I do prefer the presentation design to just about everything else out there. Anyhow, for the summer, I will be using Zenfolio to store images. It's not the answer either though. Their iPad app has a major glitch which I hope they will fix in the near future. Once you up load images into a gallery, there is no way to move them around to change the order. I asked about this and was informed that I can control the order by uploading in the order I want the photos. Doesn't really work for me as I am uploading images of moths which are taken on a daily basis and they are sorted by species, so the lack of a sort function is a major sticking point. I will be able to sort at a later date when I have regular net access on my home computer this autumn.
I guessthe thing that bothers me about the pbase situation with no app at this time is that, if we had a way to FTP into a holding gallery, we could do that with any iPad using an app such as FTPontheGo. I am currenty using that app to upload into my Yahoo server account and it works like a charm. Once the photos are uploaded, I can move them around using the regular filemanager via a browser. Pbase works the same as it has an interface that allows an iPad to actually do all the rest of the functions - other than uploading. So, all we would need is the capability of uploading into some kind of inbox via FTP. Seems to me that would be a simple enough thing to set up - probably even simpler than developing an iPad app.
One of you asked why you can't upload the usual way. The reason is that, when you go to a website that uses a typical uoload system where the site can browse your image files in your computer, it is not able to find files in the iPad. This is pretty standard as I've run into the same problem when trying to upload files on other sites. The only work around I have found is to use an FTP app, or to use the iPad app provided by the sites (Flikr, Picasa, etc.. have made them available).