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25. Aug. 2010 - Photocase Day – There will be tacos

But only if more people sign up! Seriously, we’re really keen to see as many people as possible come out for Le Fabuleux Chamantrois. More people means more awesome photos from the photo contest, more questions that you may not have thought of during...

19. Aug. 2010 - French Supremacy

The French are so much more sophisticated and well-mannered than the rest of the world, and not just because of their berets and baguettes and head-butts. Here’s a great example, when this double rainbow appeared over Amboise, in the Loire region of...

18. Aug. 2010 - New York to Tegel in pictures

In keeping with our weekly air travel posts, here’s a great blog entry in the New York Times by Christoph Niemann where he illustrates high and low points from his plane ride from New York to Berlin (via Heathrow). © Christoph Niemann via kottke

12. Aug. 2010 - Europe in colour – photos

A fella named Michael Shaugnessy scanned a whole bunch of awesome vintage colour photos of Europe (marked as being from the Institute for Color Photography, Carl Weller, Berlin/Verlagsanstalt für Farbenfotographie, 1906) and put them in this snazzy little...

10. Aug. 2010 - We’re in PC World Magazine!

Ok, via the Bundlehunt promotion, but we get semi-top billing in the article because our photo collections are the most expensive (and therefore the best). But we’re there all the same. How exciting! Click here to read the article.

5. Aug. 2010 - New Check Box in your preferences, and Instant Buy Note

Instant Buy Note Since our last shop update, buyers can now purchase single photos without credits, without registration, and we like to say “without hassle.” In the interest of making sure no one overlooks or forgets that we have this option,...

4. Aug. 2010 - La Chamantrois – Photocase Day in Berlin, September 4th

La Chamantrois 2010 So, here’s how it looks. On September 4th, we’re inviting everyone to Berlin for some talking, some laughing and some relaxing. Food and drinks will also be involved. Here’re some of the details: Where Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee...

4. Aug. 2010 - Entertaining 404 page introduces me to website I will never join

This 404 page for blippy.com was highly entertaining, so much so that I went to their homepage because I was all “what does it mean?” and holy crap they want me to give them my credit card number so they can track all my credit card purchases and...

31. Jul. 2010 - More great photos – Super long exposures

Alternate title: It’s so nice out, why am I inside. The iPhone Photo Blog has an amazing article about the longest exposure photos ever made. And we’re not talking piddly little hour long star photos, nor are we talking about days here, but years...

31. Jul. 2010 - Contraband – Great photos of seized airport items

The NY Times has a great feature in their Magazine section called Contraband. These images are from a set of 1,075 photographs — shot over five days last year for the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband’’ — of items detained...

26. Jul. 2010 - End of History – The strongest beer in the world, By Brew Dog

This came at me from about 15 different directions over the weekend, so I don’t know who to credit, except perhaps Brew Dog themselves for making it in the first place. “It” of course being the End of History, the strongest beer in the world...

21. Jul. 2010 - Photocase Instant Buy

Now that the World Cup is over and Germany didn’t win, we can all get back to real-life. Somehow, we found time to install a major update in the middle of June, but we didn’t make a big deal about it on the English site at the time. Now we’re...

20. Jul. 2010 - Photocase Downtime – Cut the red wire, no no wait…

Tub_am / Photocase.com We’re currently working some behind the scenes magic, but we had to turn off the server so we don’t get electrocuted. Don’t worry, we just need a couple hours to make the magic happen and as soon as we pick up all the...

11. Jun. 2010 - Photocase World Cup round-up and T-Shirts

So, in case you haven’t heard, the World Cup starts today in South Africa with Mexico and South Africa playing the first game at 16:00 Central European Time. Here’re a few things we wanna mention. 1. This is the best World Cup Calendar/Schedule...

11. Jun. 2010 - Amazing photos from Kevin Cooley

I love these “Light’s Edge” photos by Kevin Cooley. In an interview with F Stop Magazine he describes buying old (70’s and 80’s era) military flares from Eastern Europe. Check out his site here

10. Jun. 2010 - Congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks…

Not just for winning the Stanley Cup again after a 50 year drought, and not just for beating Chris Pronger but also for finishing off the Flyers in 6 games so that playoff hockey wouldn’t interfere with the World Cup. Which starts tomorrow btw. If you...

3. Jun. 2010 - How much of Berlin would the BP Oil Spill cover?

Oh, just the part between Hannover and Western Poland. www.ifitwasmyhome.com

2. Jun. 2010 - New Printer Technology

I wouldn’t recommend using it to print your vacation photos, but it would certainly do a good job on birthday cards.

27. May. 2010 - Awesome Photocase Photos – 1

Isn’t this photo by cheersbabes awesome? Yes, yes it is. Go get it.

17. May. 2010 - Can I get a Gink invite?

Via The Daily What

11. May. 2010 - Tempelhof Airport Park

This weekend the Tempelhof Airport was opened to the public, and I have to admit I was grinning like a fool for the first half hour… It’s hard to describe the feeling of riding down a runway on your bicycle… I don’t want to oversell...

7. May. 2010 - Friday Randomness – Poor Pisa

And this is why the tower leans the way it does, the poor thing is so embarrassed that it’s desperately trying to get out of the frame of all these ridiculous photos. Found at pw0nd.com, NSFCE (Not Safe For Continued Employment,  because you will...

7. May. 2010 - Photocase Photos in the Wild – v 2

This beauty Photocase photo by spudnique is on the cover of this month’s ExBerliner, the English language magazine here in Berlin.

4. May. 2010 - Great Ads – Seen in the Berlin Hauptbahnhof

The ad isn’t all that exciting, but I thought the slogan under Baden-Württemberg was great. “Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch.” Roughly translated it means, “We can do everything. Except High German,” obviously...

27. Apr. 2010 - Stages of a Photographer

I saw this over on kottke.org and thought it was pretty funny and of course mostly true. Stages of a Photographer Via kottke.org

26. Apr. 2010 - asdfasdf – Design Tips from Photocase

Proofread your design! This little beauty has been on our website for months now, and all of our Spanish users were too polite to let us know. Move you mouse, Spanish!

16. Apr. 2010 - Let’s NOT Create a Two-Tier Pricing System for Stock Photography

ohneski / photocase.com There’s an article by Jim Pickerell called “Let’s Create a Two-Tier Pricing System for Stock Photography” that’s been making the Twitter rounds the past few days. In it, Mr Pickerell suggests that for Stock...

15. Apr. 2010 - Vote for me

Here’s something that everyone’s been talking about and I can’t help myself, I have to mention it too. The BBC reports that in Northern Ireland the DUP party bought a photo of a pretty young lady (who may not even be Irish) to use in their...

13. Apr. 2010 - Quality vs Quantity: Photocase and Westvleteren

This morning, (just as I did last Wednesday) I woke up at 8:30 and instead of going to work, I set my computer up on the kitchen table, poured a bowl of cereal and got prepared to spend the next two hours dialing and redialing the same number. Last Wednesday...

6. Apr. 2010 - Midnight Update

view7 / photocase.com Just so y’all are forewarned, our servers are going under the knife tonight for a couple of hours. We’re going offline starting at Midnight Central European Time (think Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam) and by 2am they’ll be...

26. Mar. 2010 - Friday Randomness – Creme Egg Cupcakes

For those of you who aren’t from Canada/UK/USA, I’ll have to give you a little background. A Cadbury Creme Egg is a glorious chocolate treat from Cadbury that comes out in the aforementioned countries only around Easter. It’s chocolate on...

25. Mar. 2010 - Photoshop’s new Content Aware Fill

After the first photo demonstration I was like “Cool!” then after the second one I was like “Awesome!” and then after the third one I was like “bullshit.” This new devilry could really come in handy when building Photocase...

24. Mar. 2010 - Photocase Photos in the Wild – 1st Edition

This is the first article in our new series “Photocase photos in the wild.” Anytime I see a Photocase photo in the wild, I’ll post it here. Last night I was strolling towards Mein Haus am See ( translation, “My house at the lake”),...

21. Mar. 2010 - The boxcars all are empty, and the sun shines every day…

Maybe it’s because I rode the train from Leipzig back to Berlin on Thursday and I always get a little sentimental about the train, and I wish I’d ride the train more, but these photos on flickr by SW?MPY make me want to quit my job and start hopping...

10. Mar. 2010 - The making of the Photocase splash page

You’ve all seen it, and you may think there’s nothing to it; that we just pick a few photos, plunk them on the page and voilà: New Splash Page. Well, it’s a little more complicated than that (although not much more complicated really)...

9. Mar. 2010 - The Noktor HyperPrime 50mm f/0.95 – I want to go to there.

The Noktor Hyper Prime. Making hearts beat faster since 2010. This is the Noktor Hyper Prime 50mm. lens is not only attractive, it’s also super super fast. Actually, f/0.95 is so fast my dad would take one look at this and swear (which he almost never...

8. Mar. 2010 - Photocase adds awesome new photo preview function

This is the awesome new Photocase photo browser page. This’ll be our last installment before our next update (which will be coming soon, you heard it here first!), and this post outlines the changes we’ve made to the photo browser page. Some people...

4. Mar. 2010 - Photocase adds new Sort Function to search results

Photocase Sort Function In keeping with our awesome update round-up, today we’re going to talk about the glorious new sort function. You want to see your search results sorted by date, relevance or interestingness? Now you can. And it’s awesome...

4. Mar. 2010 - Zipshot Tripod deploys fast but how hard is it to break-down once you’re done?

So this is the Zipshot Tripod, and the first thing I thought of when I saw this video was “so where’s the video where it shows the guy taking this thing apart?” but it’s there, you just gotta watch to the end. And I guess it didn’t...

Year 2009

5. Aug. 2009 - Now Pay by Credit Card and Direct Debit without leaving Photocase

Getting photos just got faster and easier. If you're running low on credits, now you can buy more by credit card or direct debit without having to leave Photocase! Simply head to our Shop (or during the download process) choose your preferred payment method,...

29. Jun. 2009 - August 29th - A Photocase day in Berlin: La Chamandeux

Our poll found that the most of you would be happy with an August 29th event. So that's the day we'd like to invite you to Berlin. You will find all the information and registration information here.

22. May. 2009 - A Photocase day in Berlin: La Chamandeux

La Chamandeux is coming up in August. Let us know if you're interested and what date you prefer here.

25. Apr. 2009 -

During a little update one of our servers decided to take a little break, and it took a little longer to get back up again. Hope you were able to enjoy the weather.

22. Apr. 2009 - Search Optimization

We've often heard that while we've got great photos, searching and finding them can occasionally be a weak point. The search results are sometimes imprecise and there are occasionally photos that appear in the results don't fit the entered search terms at...

19. Apr. 2009 - Update two-fer.

The new update has a little something for everyone, whether you're looking for photos or a photographer. The Search Our search box was always a little tucked away on the left side of the page. After a number of intensive usability tests, conducted by the...

20. Jan. 2009 - Photocase Statistics

We have good news for Photographers: you can retire your notepads and your calculators, because statistics for your photos and User Profile have been online as of early this morning. Information such as monthly hits, referrers, search terms and visitor location...

4. Jan. 2009 - Photocase Growth Spurt

There comes a time in the life of every website when they outgrow their servers. We imagine this happens at Google once a week, at Flickr every few days and at YouTube they probably have a guy whose job it is to just sit at the nearby electronics shop and...

Year 2008

30. Nov. 2008 - More

For the past 7 years, Photocase has been the place that photographers and designers came when they wanted to take part in something different, something new. When it came to style and imagination, we always offered more. With our latest update, we are going...

11. Sep. 2008 - Mikrokultur + Photocase = Popkomm

Photocase and Berlin Booking Agency Mikrokultur want you to be our date for the dance. Mikrokultur is putting on a festival night at Admiralspalast (Berlin) right in the middle of Popkomm week. Trust us, you're going to want to be there. The bands playing...

4. Aug. 2008 - Every update has an update...

...therefore, we just finished a little update that updates the last update and will make a few little problems nothing more than an unpleasant memory. :) "Notify me if someone comments on my photos," located in the settings, works again. The various...

8. Jul. 2008 - Language Update - The morning after

We picked up our servers from the local language school this morning and they couldn't stop babbling to us in all their new languages. We're so proud, even if we can't understand everything they say anymore. Now that we've all drank our prosecco and posed...

1. Jul. 2008 - UPDATE- Server Outage

We'll be shutting Photocase off at 22:00 on Monday July 7th and taking the servers to the Berlitz Language School for a crash course in English, French and Spanish. By the next morning they will be fluent in 4 languages and you will be able to interact with,...

20. Jun. 2008 - La Chamandu - Photocase Day

Ladies and Gentlemen, The poll results are in, and you've chosen August 30th as the date for the first annual Photocase Day. So send your kids to the neighbours, water your plants and hop on a bus, train, bike whatever...just get to Berlin. All the information...

18. Jun. 2008 - Werbekongreß 2008 and Photocase

Last week, the 2008 Werbekongreß took place in Berlin, focusing on an internationalization plan for a small German photo-community. In effect, the Werbekongreß a three-day workshop designed to give university students an opportunity to gain experience...

3. Jun. 2008 - UPDATE: Fotorally is over.

The contest is over. You have voted for your stars. Congratulations to Juttaschnecke, kallejipp and john krempl! All winners.

22. May. 2008 - Photocase Day - A quick question

We're planning an event for the summer called Photocase Day, and would like to know which date would suit you the best. This way to the poll...

28. Mar. 2008 - Something to look forward to.

After a long break in communication, we’re back again with a little bit of detail on what we’ve been working on so far this year. The last update was a while ago, and the rule is: the longer the time between updates, the bigger the update! The...

Year 2007

12. Dec. 2007 - Sweet Georgia Brown!

As of about 8 o'clock this evening, the Photocase photometer went over 100,000. We're happy, we're thankful, we're optimistic and we wish it was summertime so that we could have a big BBQ make everybody lunch, and fish cold drinks out of bottomless coolers...

29. Nov. 2007 - Photocase Advent Calendar

Stocky Claus is attacking the peaceful village of Awesome! He doesn't like all their creative, exciting photos and is wrecking the village in a boring and predictable way. You must help the villagers of Awesome to save their photos from his angry stomping...

3. Oct. 2007 - Together again

First of all, we hope you had a great German Unity Day, without which we here at Photocase would still be bopping around Dresden with a Praktika dangling from our necks wondering what bananas taste like. If you were anywhere outside Germany, we hope you had...

16. Jul. 2007 - Updates are the new black

The changes in this round do more to captivate the eye and the mind by way of a subtle timelessness and discreet yet playful nod at the larger notion of existence. These changes find themselves fitting harmoniously into an already beautiful line, and show...

27. May. 2007 - After the update is before the update...

And here we are again. A few entries from our to-do list are gone, and we hope they don't come back. At first glance, the update doesn't look like much but the BBCode and the photo editing script were pretty tricky. We hope that these little updates will make...

15. May. 2007 - The poll booths are open.

Occasionally it's necessary to ask a few quick questions to obtain from you users some quick answers. We want to hear from you whether you think we're on the right track and which aspects of the site we can make improve upon. We would be really happy if you...

6. Apr. 2007 - Easter Update

-Notifications are back -Favorite photos in your User Profile are now arranged by how many "I like it"'s they have -RSS subscriptions get a valid feed -EXIF data -Links in the Categories overview work properly -The "Go to page X" function...

2. Apr. 2007 - On the subject of disruptions

Our planned move to the new server was interrupted by a small but particularly tenacious hardware problem. For safety's sake, the move has been postponed for a few days . Everything is running fine again, albeit on the old server. We'll keep you posted.

6. Mar. 2007 - Reinforcements have arrived.

New photo editors provide light at the end of the photo confirmation tunnel. Please address fan mail to cydonna, neguan, madochab, froodmat and dragon30. Prokop's first job was programming binary load lifters (very similar to vaporators in most respects) and...

Year 2006

13. Dec. 2006 - Adjustment to User Profiles

We are still having performance problems with the site. Our stats show that user profiles with a high number of comments are particularly greedy when it comes to consumption of system resources. We have therefore decided to limit the comments on your profile...

7. Dec. 2006 - Aufklärung 01

Kurz vornweg: Wir schrauben nach ganz stark an der Behebung aller Fehler. Nach dem schlechten Einstieg von Gestern mussten wir heute Nacht noch eine grundlegende Komponente tauschen. Jetzt ist zwar die Performance schon besser, aber es haben sich durch diese...

6. Dec. 2006 - Service Interruptions

Throughout the course of the day, you may experience temporary service interruptions while using Photocase. We ask for your understanding.

5. Dec. 2006 - The Update

We're back...and it only took one day longer than we expected. There are a few obvious changes, and a few that that aren't so obvious. Terms of Use The first thing you should know is that we updated our Terms of Use. You will have to read them over thoroughly...

28. Nov. 2006 - Update on the way

Photocase will be offline for maintenance from Friday December 1st to Monday December 4th. Thanks for your understanding. Photocase – Department Beta+

22. Sep. 2006 - Links in comments and forum posts

We would ask that you please refrain from posting links to commercial websites in your comments or forum posts. Any posting containing this kind of information will be deleted without warning. If you wish to send any samples of your work to anyone--including...

23. May. 2006 - Photo Keywords

Today's lesson is on keywords and the keywords you give your photos. Lets say you upload a photo where you can see a beautiful meadow, a bright blue sky and a ball bouncing from playfully from left to right. If you used the keywords "ball, meadow, sky,"...

22. May. 2006 - Summer, Meadow, German Sausage

Summer is back and what better way to celebrate than by sitting in the park and grilling some sausages. Anybody who wants to flatten the grass with us is more than welcome. We'll be there June 3th at 4pm behind the climbing wall at the "Volkspark"...

8. Feb. 2006 - Defekte Fotos

Das Problem von versehentlich überschriebenen Fotos beim Upload neuer Fotos ist behoben. Es werden keine Dateien mehr gelöscht. Wer eine kaputte oder fehlende Datei unter seinen Fotos hat, schickt uns bitte den Link zu dem Foto + die original Datei...

4. Feb. 2006 - Finalization Trouble

Couple users had some trouble to finalize their photos, this should be solved.

20. Jan. 2006 - A new update is on the way.

We are currently preparing a fresh update for Photocase. Besides providing new features, the update will also fix some bugs and perfomance issues, and the colour search tool will finally be included. Because of our coming update, we will temporarily stop fixing...

Year 2005

28. Nov. 2005 - Email trouble this morning

Unfortunately we had a couple email problems this morning. That means that everybody who registered this time, got no email to activate his account. Please request your activation code again. http://www.photocase.com/requestactivation.asp The same happened...

28. Nov. 2005 - Whats new after update

stuff which is fixed: - double avatars in your buddy list - delete and edit of posting of other users - broken links at the user contact page - news search - short story search - public lightboxes without a thumbnail new stuff added - photocase subscription,...

25. Nov. 2005 - Update ahead

From saturday afternoon until monday morning we will be updating Photocase. Please take note that the site will be offline during this time.

15. Nov. 2005 - Photocase gone with the wind

there was a short outage due to a configuration problem. sorry for that. problem fixed. have fun.

20. Oct. 2005 - Couple things fixed

- broken redirects - automatic login via cookie - page jump photobrowser - the search - notifications

18. Oct. 2005 - The Upload is working again.

We are bored... No photos in here.

16. Oct. 2005 - Contest Reminder

Our sweet little Contest is running still one day. So hurry up. http://www.photocase.com/contest.asp

12. Oct. 2005 - Bug fixing

These bugs are fixed: - multiple downloads in your Lightbox - wrong photo id's in your confirmation email - all data and buddies are shown correctly on your profile page - insert your email address to get your lost password - the thumbs are shown correctly...

11. Oct. 2005 - Time out

at 6 pm today. We'll be back tomorrow morning.

7. Oct. 2005 - Shop - New Business Hours

Our shop is open for business.

5. Oct. 2005 - Maintenance

Between 8pm and 12pm Photocase will be offline for maintenance.

5. Oct. 2005 - Lets go. Third Round for Photocase and its done.

Ok almost. Photocase is bigger, faster and filled with more features. Unfortunately not all features were ready to go when the site went back online. So we are calling this version „beta“. Don't panic. We are working day and night to get Photocase...

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