Does anyone know where I can find some kind of coin software that's free, and that I can post my own coin pictures? Let me know, Thanks!
For posting pictures many people use Photobucket. It'd free and appears to be quite reliable and easy to use. For an inventory many people use a spreadsheet like Excel. That's because most people get a spreadsheet when they buy a computer.
To the best of my knowledge, you can't UNLESS your computer is also a server. You can't host pictures on a home computer. You CAN set Excel up so that you can click on a cell and the image comes up, but that's strictly internal to your computer. And no one else could see them.
Every computer is a server. I host pictures from my home computers all the time. Of course you can host pictures on your home computer. But why would you? Browsers don't work anymore? Ruben
I didn't literally mean combine the two, I just wanted a spreadsheet type program that will allow me to post pictures of my coins.
Interesting. I was under the impression that 'Every computer can be a server.' BUT unless you get a web address [www.[I]name[/I].com] and do some other upgrades/changes, you weren't a server. I can't host my own images since I haven't set myself up as a server. I have to download my images to a server. Lots of people use Photobucket; I use my ISP. Obviously there's something I don't understand about the whole setup.
If your computer couldn't serve then you would be able to use the internet. The internet is a duplex networking communication system. It takes a lot of work you prevent you from serving on port 80 by your ISP or serving mail. They sell you a bag of lies based on what they want to market to you. All computers are servers. The OS doesn't even matter in this regard. You can download an apache web server at http://www.apache.org Ruben
As Kanga mentioned you could use photobucket and oraganize the pictures in albums. Or if you do not mind paying(which it sounds like you do) you could use CoinElite which lets you attach photo's to your records.
I use spreadsheets for my collection, wouldn't consider anything else. But since not everyone gets excell with their computer, In fact many don't, I would recommend open office. -- dw
