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Embedding photos in blogs

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Use our new embed tool to show off your effects and photos in your blogs, your profile pages and emails. Using the recently introduced Gigya widget, you can now post your newly created photos on your Orkut page, Facebook profile, MySpace account and dozen other supported social networks.

Sketch Artist effect

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Peeling Paint effect

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Nah, I haven’t dug this photo from my basement. It is actually a photo I took in a wonderful hotel in Scotland (original photo).

Unexpected Downtime

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

You have all felt that earthquake — dumpr had an unexpected downtime of approximately 3 hours.

This was caused due to a change I was trying to make to the server configuration to make it run faster. That experiment failed and blew up in my face, causing a hellish downtime and a nervous breakdown. The good news is that no user data has been deleted or corrupted.

On a side note, I have been a bad blogger. I should blog more often. Last blog entry was when I moved to this new hosting. Since then I have added many new effects, plenty of new features and the userbase growth has been amazing! I will use this space to share the experience with dumpr’s users. Thank you for being one! :o )

Bumpy road!

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Yeh! Server has moved!

With all problems fixed, you can enjoy dumpr.net to the fullest. We would like to thank everybody for the emails and bug reports. Thank you for your patience and we are sorry for all the trouble and downtimes.

New weeks, fresh start!

Cheers!  :)

Server upgrade in progress!

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Yah!

Finally moving to our new home! A superfast box to handle the overload. If you’re having any problems with the server, please let us know. We’re doing our best to finish this move over the weekend.
Thank you for your patience, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Summer Fun!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Summer is here, and here are the latest news from the fun front!

  • New effect is online: the marvelous Rubik’s Cube Generator! Since its appearance a few days ago, there have been more than 50,000 creations! Talk about instant hit! :) Go ahead, give it a go: create your own custom rubik’s cube
  • We have grown tenfold. This calls both for celebration AND for new servers! We are moving to a very (very) powerful server in the next few days!

Oh! Oh! We got some surprisingly surpriseful surprises coming up… realllllly soon! So say tuned! Summer ain’t over yet! :)
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Welcome Generator Blog Users!

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Welcome Generator Blog Users!

I know it’s been a while since last update. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Been working on some ubersweet stuff that will make it online a month from now. If you’re interested, there’s a newsletter forming up; it will feature exclusive photoshop tutorials, and dumpr announcements such as new effects, upcoming new features as such. Sounds exciting, right? Just register dumpr’s newsletter today and you’re set! You won’t regret it! It’s as sweet as a puppy!

Sorry about the minor downtimes in Instant Sketch effect; thanks for the patience and thanks for everybody who wrote in! Your support is greatly appreciated!

Until next time,

ta ta!

Minor screw-up :)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I mess up a bit :)

I have revised the user interface, it came out really nice. Upload and process have been going on in the background with a dialog box saying “Please wait, we’re processing your photo”. It all came out neat and dandy, but it was broken on IE. Thanks for everybody who sent in an email. I’m terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Around 50% of dumpr’s users are running Internet Explorer, so the thousands of daily generated photos made me think everything was fine.

In other news, new features for dumpr are:

  • Better and nicer interface
  • Integration with Plaxo (send emails to contacts from your GMail, Outlook and Yahoo address book!)
  • Add to your del.icio.us and facebook bookmarks
  • Easier embedding in blogs and myspace

If you have ideas to improve dumpr, please drop me a line at admin@dumpr.net.

Again, I appreciate everybody’s patience with this bug. Everything seems to be working normally again. If you encounter problems, please let me know.

So many updates!

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

So many things to tell! Before wrapping up and deploying the new version of dumpr, I  thought I’d summarize all new features since the last real status-report :)

  • Easter Egg effect
  • Friends Scout (find photos of your contacts that made it to Explore)
  • Lomography effect
  • Sketch effect
  • Jigsaw Puzzle effect
  • Embed / Blog photos
  • Save images to disk
  • Print directly (using your home printer)
  • Moved to 1024×768 minimum (instead of 800×600 before

There are so many new effects line up for the next release. With more than 1300 mentions in blogs (Technorati), it looks like dumpr is catching on quite fast! The new toys will definitely blow your mind; so I guess you’ll just have to wait :)

Cheers!

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