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In May, Google made international headlines when it announced that it was going to offer free, unlimited storage for photos and videos. If you read Google's press release, you'll see that the free storage plan limits images to 16 megapixels and videos to 1080p resolution. But if digital images are simply collections of binary data and if all other files on your computer also just collections of binary data then isn't unlimited photo storage simply unlimited storage?
If only something existed that made this easy to do; you know, something that could bitmap all the things....
[ Ed's Comment: This link points to the author's own personal software solution, but I'm sure that others will come up with alternative ideas.]
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:13AM
Shouldn't this really be filed under "what could possibly go wrong". Yes give all your images and videos to kindly uncle Google. They will never ever use them for anything but store them for you, for free!
I assume just renaming the files .jpeg won't work, or? Alternatively I guess one could just create a 1x1 pixel image to get all the headers and then just attach the rest of your data after the end of the file OR you might want to have an ordinary image and just inject all your data into the comment field if the format supports that. There should be quite a few different possibilities. I'm not really sure which version or what this program does, somewhat to lazy to try it out but it seems from the screenshot that he at least offers rar compression with password protection.
If you want free backup storage forever from Google for all files you can still just tarball (or whatever compression you like) up your files and email them to your gmail account. "Free" storage forever as long as they adhere to the size limitations of attachments. I seriously suggest encrypting all your files to before sending them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:13AM
Jpeg files are just groups of bitstreams. You could store your data in a non-image bitstream, not unlike the way EXIF streams contain things like exposure, gps coordinates, etc.