{"id":2888,"date":"2007-01-03T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/costco-photo-centre-cheap-but-stupid\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T03:05:57","slug":"costco-photo-centre-cheap-but-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/costco-photo-centre-cheap-but-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Photo Centre: cheap, but stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got the holiday photos, and want to print them for those that like that. I&#8217;d used <a href=\"http:\/\/pix.futureshop.ca\/\">Future Shop<\/a> in the past, but <a href=\"http:\/\/costco.pnimedia.com\/\">Costco<\/a> is offering such cheap prints, I thought I&#8217;d give them a try.<\/p>\n<p>Probably a mistake:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Their drag and drop uploader is an ActiveX control that only works under IE on Windows. Use any other browser, and you get presented with an old-school HTML form. For 94 pictures, that would get dull quickly.<\/li>\n<li>The uploader transmits several images at once. It seems that if any of the uploads should fail, all the files uploading at that time also fail. Uploading a few at a time doesn&#8217;t seem to help much; around one in ten files will fail randomly.<\/li>\n<li>While the uploader does warn you when an upload fails, it&#8217;s up to you to remember which files haven&#8217;t worked. Clicking <strong>Retry <\/strong>just takes you back to the uploader, and since it&#8217;s an embedded applet, there&#8217;s no browser history to take you back to note your failed uploads.<\/li>\n<li>The albums store files in the order uploaded, and can&#8217;t be changed.<\/li>\n<li>Long file names get truncated, and then get uselessly used as the title on the back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll let you know how it all went when I get the prints in a couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve got the holiday photos, and want to print them for those that like that. I&#8217;d used Future Shop in the past, but Costco is offering such cheap prints, I thought I&#8217;d give them a try. Probably a mistake: Their drag and drop uploader is an ActiveX control that only works under IE on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[101,99,100,2899,62],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-photo","tag-activex","tag-costco","tag-future_shop","tag-photo","tag-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-KA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}