Edit your photos with SnipShot and myDataBus!

Wrapping up a busy week of updates, today we released photo editing using the really great tools from SnipShot.com. This is one you have to see to really get the hang of, SnipShot is a really great tool! Go find a .jpg file in your myDataBus account and click the options button; you will see a new "Edit with SnipShot" link.

Features in brief: (From SnipShot.com)

• One-click enhance improves most images
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
• Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
• Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ⌘Z and ⌘Y on your Mac)
• Nondestructive editing—we always work from the original

And did I mention easy to use? Just like our Zoho tools, one click sends your file to the editor, and saving will push the updated file back to your myDataBus account.

New Social Bookmarking Tools

Social bookmarking and news sites are an interesting way to share your interests and find sites you might never have come across on your own. They are often a great way to find entertaining videos, pictures and websites when you are looking to kill some time; so in the spirit of helping you to share your content we have added a long list of services to myDataBus.com. Go create links from your Public Files page and you will see our expanded list of "one-click" sharing options.

Do you use one of these services? Try it out now, click on a link below to share this blog entry!

Digg.net
Del.icio.us
Stumble Upon
Furl
blinklist
Ma.gnolia
Simpy
Spurl
Reddit
Netvouz
Newsvine
Tailrank

All of these links are now available for your Albums also; click on an album and you will see a row of icons near the top of the page.

Did we miss your favorite? Send an email and let us know!

Updates Today - Groups, PayPal, Facebook

If you use our group features very often you may have already noticed that we pushed out an overhaul of the groups system earlier today. Most of the changes are architectural, designed to help us scale better and give us more flexibility in adding features, but there are some pretty radical UI changes as well. Let us know what you think!

Quick summary of the group changes:

• Zoho editing is now available for any file you have added to a group
• All of the group features have been combined into a single page; look on the right side of your files to view group members, information, invite people to join, or edit the group settings.
• The group member list now displays the actual name of each member, rather than their email address!
• On the member listing you can roll over a name to see profile information about that user.

In the payments department we have added an option to sign up for a paid account using your PayPal account in addition to our Credit Card option; this should be especially helpful for our international users. PayPal has over 100 million account members in 103 countries and regions around the world, and can accept transactions in 16 currencies

In this release we have updated to the newest version of the Facebook API; and improved our picture features. If you have Facebook, try this: use the link in the toolbar to log into your Facebook account, then click on either "Photos of You" or "Facebook Albums" to view your pictures. To download full size images into your myDataBus.com account, click the "Load Image" button... your Facebook photos are now in My Files! You can even import an entire album at once from the Facebook Albums page; complete with your comments!

Scheduled Maintenance Friday 3/23

We will be moving some servers around this Friday (March 23) evening, so myDataBus.com will be temporarily offline beginning around 5pm EST. Watch this address (http://mydatabus.blogspot.com) for updates, and thanks again for using myDataBus!