Besides changing physical machines, we’ve switched from the ubiquitous Apache HTTP server to the high performance new guy, Nginx (pronounced “Engine-X”). In addition to serving you pages even faster, Nginx is more efficient and keeps our new machine very happy.

As with any major change, things can break or behave unexpectedly. Because of this, I’d like to call on you to help notify us of any problems or changes in Techerator. If you experience any unusual behavior, please send an email to tips@techerator.com with as much information as possible (i.e. what error you saw, what were you trying to do, and include information about what browser and operating system you’re using). We’ll do everything we can to make sure the site works as it should.

To help me gauge the performance of the new server, I’d greatly appreciate your feedback in the following poll. If you have extra details you want to share, please post in the comments below.

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Thank you for your patience with our intermittent downtime over the weekend!

Image courtesy: Mayhem Chaos

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It’s no big chore to share your pictures via email, but it’s not the most sophisticated way to distribute them either.  So, you may ask, what are the tech-savvy using to share their family photos this holiday season?  A new web service called Min.us.

Min.us is making some noise and may even upset the current king of photo sharing simplicity – imgur.  Min.us boasts a two word motto: “Share simply”, and it allows you to do just that.  The site cleverly uses drag and drop, right onto the web page, which is a first for any image sharing service I know of.  It also automatically creates a “gallery” of the images you have dropped into your browser, making it easy to rename, delete, rearrange and share your pics.

After sharing the gallery link, your recipient can choose what pics they want from the group and then download just those pics into a zipped file.  Neato!

Additionally, min.us allows for all the same things as other popular sharers, like linking to a single image, and has support for JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and APNG file types.  Near the picture’s direct link you’ll see the dimensions and file size – it’s like everything you need to know, right there on one page!

Probably the most notable feature of all is the way min.us uses an effective navigation system which is controlled either by click, or by using the directional keys for skimming through the gallery pictures quickly.  The only restriction is that images are limited to 7MB, so the biggest challenge of sharing your photos might be explaining to grandma how to compress those holiday memories from her new 12 megapixel camera, ha!

Update: Since writing, there have been more updates like the option to file browse OR to just drag and drop.  Follow site and blog updates here.

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