Puricute is the new site on the block offering cute picture frames for all to see. The site is very well designed and neat. It should be able capture the young female, or more specifically, capture the asian audiences very quickly. 

Puricute provides users with a very simple interface to create their picture frame. First you upload your photo and choose the various stamps and frames to add. You can insert animals and cute cakes into your picture, then send them out to friends or blog. The site also hosts a gallery where you can view other puricute photos created by others.

How cute is too cute?

Puricute unfortunately doesn’t stand itself apart from other glitter sites. There isn’t any robust features that can make it compete with blingee. You can only undo stamps in the order that you add them. We would like to see it where you can delete a stamp by clicking on it. Also you can’t insert your own user created stamps. This seriosuly puts it behind other glitter apps.

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Minorcrisis may be down, but there are more sites out there that will handle your storage for hotlinking MP3s. There are some facebook applications that lets you place a music player in your profile. So if you want to add cool music to your profile, you gotta start uploading.

FileNanny

File Nanny joins the block with the most easy to use storage section. After you upload your file, every single song is stored within the My files area. Click on Share and you’ll get the direct link to the song.

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Bandwith: 5GB
Upload Size: 500mb each

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Hotlink Files

Hotlink Files does just what it intended. Pretty much it hotlinks all your files. It uses the same interface as snapdrive so you should be familiar with it. You have to register in order to upload mp3s. After you upload the files, click Just the Direct URLs at the top.

Limitations:

Bandwith: 4GB
Upload Size: 50mb each

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FileXoom

FileXoom is another hotlinking site, however it seems to be suffering problems during testing, so hopefully one day it will be up and running, so keep this in the back of your head until another site goes down. In our tests, sometimes filexoom failed to redirect us to our files. It also got confused when we uploaded Mp3s. In their faq, it says the limit is 100MB, but when we upload mp3s it says the limit is 2mb, far below maximum required. This might great for images but very bad for music. Fortunately it has the highest bandwith per month making it a great deal for small files.

Limitations:

Bandwith: 20GB
Upload Size: 2mb each

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Pazoen is yet another site glitter site, trying to take over the throne of Blingee. It’s main focus is to add glitter stamps and text to your photos. Pazoen doesn’t really add anything new and interesting to the multitude of glitter sites out there. The generic interface has the usual tools of adding graphics, resizing stamps, and adding text. Typing glitter text was its most robust feature and was pretty easy to do.

 

Similar to Blingee, it has a badge feature that allows you to add graphics from other sites into your bag. With your bag you can paste these stamps into the photos you are editing. However, uploading a custom stamp was not working at the time of this review and only leads to a blank page. At the embed screen you will get a very clean embed code, which we recommend that all image hosting sites abide to. There is also a flash version of your picture which doesn’t really add to the quality of the image compared to the gif version.

There are many bugs lurking around the site, some might be frustrating towards new visitors. If you finish your picture and click "Start over with the same graphic", your subsequent end result isn’t saved. For some reason only the previously saved work appears, it seems that you’ll have to re-upload the same picture again to make this bug go away. Another pet peeve is the missing delete button. If you want to remove a stamp, you’ll have to keep pressing "undo" it until its gone. If you added a lot of glitter and want to remove something you did at the beginning, you’d have to move the stamp off the screen. We also noticed that the animation of the stamps were much slower when you completed the image. So far Pazoen feels a bit unfinished and has a long way to go before it can be at the top of its game. If other glitter sites are too hard for you or you just want an alternative, try Pazoen out for a change.

 

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Blingee may be just another site like pikipimp, but its far far easier to use. Blingee’s website is clear from obnoxious ads and crazy pop-ups and gives you the tools to create your trendy blingin masterpiece. One of its notable features is the Fill Area tool. You can instantly add your own background below your photo. Although it works better if you have taken your photo against a white wall. Blingee also allows you to add graphics from other glitter sites like myspaceglitter, in a feature called "Stamps" You can upload any photo and it will shared for other users to create their own images. Adding bling to a picture is as easy as clicking certain spots of where you want it to go. Rotating is done much much better than pikipimp, as it doesn’t squash or stretch it. Of course with using glitter graphic sites, the main drawback is your photos will have poor quality due to Gif Standards. We’d like to see if a site like this could make use of flash and keep pictures high quality with all their bling.

 

After you have finished creating your picture you must then register, it will then provide you the code needed to direct link to the image. Now Blingee gets a bit ridiculous in advertising considering it adds a black logo on each image. So here’s how we can remove Build Your Own blingee, while keeping the link back to the site. We’re nice people OK :) but don’t push us Blingee.

  

Removing Unnecessary Build your own Blingee Advertisement. Look at the Code Below

<a href="http://blingee.com/blingee/view/17523460-webappsreview" alt="Build your own Blingee" target="_blank">
<img alt="webappsreview" border="0" height="160"
src="http://image.blingee.com/images12/content/output/2007/7/22/67392172_e25eba33.gif"
title="webappsreview" width="106" /></a><br /><a href="http://blingee.com" target="_blank">
<font size="2">Build your own Blingee</font></a><br /><br />

The example above shows a complete code you should put on your myspace. To make this cleaner remove everything you see above thats highlighted in green. Of course your not supposed to use MY code, but you should look at your own code for your own picture and remove what I highlighted. When your done the resulting code will look similar to the one below

<a href="http://blingee.com/blingee/view/17523460-webappsreview" alt="Build your own Blingee" target="_blank">
<img alt="webappsreview" border="0" height="160"
src="http://image.blingee.com/images12/content/output/2007/7/22/67392172_e25eba33.gif"
title="webappsreview" width="106" /></a><br />

Now your done! Enjoy making blingin pictures!

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Today we review 7 up and coming image sites. Will these sites reign as new alternatives to Photobucket, Imageshack, and tinypic? Lets find out!

Photolinko

The site is a bit cluttered with Ads, but is pretty nice and easy to upload. The fun stops here once the image linking codes are shown. Each image linking code has a direct link back to photolinko, including a text link below the image. Its pretty easy to remove it out, but for people who don’t know how to, they’ll have to deal with it. The site has linking codes for Myspace, Forums, and HTML. [photolinko]

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JPEGR

One of the few black interfaces to upload images. Its very clean and tidy. Uploading images are pretty fast, sometimes too fast that the image shows itself as a red box because it hasn’t been processed yet. After a few seconds you can go to the direct link of the image and it will load correctly. Linking codes are clean and nice. The site has linking fodes for HTML, and Forums. [jpegr]

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img.la

img.la reminds me of the heiress Paris Hilton. With its sleek and sexy design, the forms move up and down moothly allowing you to upload your image and read more information while its being processed. Unfortunately, just like Paris Hilton, the site was too stuck up that it didn’t want to give us the linking codes to any image and failed to show us where the image uploaded to. This site has failed due to bugs. [img.la]

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thumbq

The site was pretty simple, it had some ads though. There are 5 forms to upload images. The linking codes were only to a direct link, it didn’t have any other options. [thumbq]

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xmgimage

You have to sign up inorder to use this site. Which is unfortunate to people who want a quick linking code. The site also provides a nice image editing tool but without any undo options for some strange reason. Linking codes can be directly inserted in your myspace by login information (Web Apps insists that you don’t give any website your Myspace Login Information). Instead you can direct link, or choose Friendster or Facebook share. [xmgimage]

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imagehigh

Imagehigh has a large form to upload as many images as you want as long as you abide to the terms of service. They even put a scare tactic saying your IP has been logged for who knows what.. Anyways as we were trying to upload the image, it redirected us to a blank page and we don’t know where our images went. This site has failed due to bugs. [imagehigh]

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bayimg

bayimg is the Pirate Bay’s image hosting site, promissing that images won’t go down with DMCA notices unless they are "illegal". Bayimg requires every image have a removal code. You can also upload images within a zip file as an album. Direct linking isn’t shown after you upload the image, you’ll have to right click and select properties to see the direct linking URL. [bayimg]

 

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