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5. Aug. 2009 - Comments 0

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,... More...

29. Jun. 2009 - Comments 1

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. More...

22. May. 2009 - Comments 3

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. More...

25. Apr. 2009 - Comments 0

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. More...

22. Apr. 2009 - Comments 0

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... More...

19. Apr. 2009 - Comments 0

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... More...

20. Jan. 2009 - Comments 0

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... More...

4. Jan. 2009 - Comments 0

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... More...

Year 2008

30. Nov. 2008 - Comments 2

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... More...

11. Sep. 2008 - Comments 0

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... More...

4. Aug. 2008 - Comments 0

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... More...

8. Jul. 2008 - Comments 4

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... More...

1. Jul. 2008 - Comments 0

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,... More...

20. Jun. 2008 - Comments 1

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... More...

18. Jun. 2008 - Comments 0

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... More...

3. Jun. 2008 - Comments 0

UPDATE: Fotorally is over.

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

22. May. 2008 - Comments 0

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... More...

28. Mar. 2008 - Comments 0

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... More...

Year 2007

12. Dec. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

29. Nov. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

3. Oct. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

16. Jul. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

27. May. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

15. May. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

6. Apr. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

2. Apr. 2007 - Comments 0

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. More...

6. Mar. 2007 - Comments 0

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... More...

Year 2006

13. Dec. 2006 - Comments 0

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... More...

7. Dec. 2006 - Comments 0

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... More...

6. Dec. 2006 - Comments 0

Service Interruptions

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

5. Dec. 2006 - Comments 0

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... More...

28. Nov. 2006 - Comments 0

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+ More...

22. Sep. 2006 - Comments 0

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... More...

23. May. 2006 - Comments 0

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,"... More...

22. May. 2006 - Comments 0

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"... More...

8. Feb. 2006 - Comments 0

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... More...

4. Feb. 2006 - Comments 0

Finalization Trouble

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

20. Jan. 2006 - Comments 0

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... More...

Year 2005

28. Nov. 2005 - Comments 0

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... More...

28. Nov. 2005 - Comments 0

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,... More...

25. Nov. 2005 - Comments 0

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. More...

15. Nov. 2005 - Comments 0

Photocase gone with the wind

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

20. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

Couple things fixed

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

18. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

The Upload is working again.

We are bored... No photos in here. More...

16. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

Contest Reminder

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

12. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

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... More...

11. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

Time out

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

7. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

Shop - New Business Hours

Our shop is open for business. More...

5. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

Maintenance

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

5. Oct. 2005 - Comments 0

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... More...