Does Yahoo’s 1TB of Flickr storage signal bigger cloud plans?
May 22, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Ian Paul.
When Flickr announced its 1TB free storage giveaway on Monday, the company said it was offering you enough storage to "take a photo every hour for forty years" without filling up your allotment. Not content to wait four decades, hackers are already figuring out how to pack their Flickr storage with more than just photos and videos.
Two Github projects making the rounds on Hacker News Tuesday morning offer the ability to store any file type on Flick including documents, PDFs, and music files. Flickr currently allows only JPEG, GIF, and PNG uploads, as well as a variety of video formats including AVI, WMV, MPEG4, and OGG…
Both projects work in the same basic way: They take any file you want to upload and encode it into a PNG image file. That way Flickr believes you’re uploading an image, even though you’re actually uploading the latest Daft Punk album. The method appears to be working as of this writing, but don’t count on turning Flickr into a mega-Dropbox just yet…
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