Walmart Photos QuickUpload for Safari

I use Walmart's online photo service quite a bit; it's cheap and quality is rather good for the cost (if a bit too dark). The best thing about it is that that you can upload your photos from home and pick them up an hour later at most Walmart locations for 19 cents each (4x6). The downside is the web browser form-based uploading. You have to select the images one by one, which obviously takes forever if you have a lot of pictures. Naturally enough they have desktop software for Windows, but not Mac. However, I recently had a lot of photos to upload and started digging around their site for a better solution. After a lot of clicking, I finally came across a deeply buried and hard-to-find little gem: the QuickUpload plugin for Safari. If you download and install it (I've only tested it with Safari 2), it will allow you to select and upload an indefinite number of photos much more easily. So what I do is export the photos I want to print from Aperture to a folder on my Desktop, then select that folder with the QuickUploader and let it do its thing.
The QuickUpload plugin only works with Safari, and frankly is rather slow. The iPhoto option you see above also does not actually read the library, but merely lets you drill down into the folder structure. Nonetheless, if you're uploading more than a handful of pictures at a time it's a real time-saver. The only thing I can't figure out is why Walmart makes it so hard to find on their website. They feature the Windows software prominently, but you really have to dig to find the Mac version of QuickUpload. It's a free download from Walmart.
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I use Walmart's online photo service quite a bit; it's cheap and quality is rather good for the cost (if a bit too dark). The best thing...
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I'm with Ruby. Boo Walmart.
August 24 2007 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWalmart? Seriously?
August 24 2007 at 2:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySnapfish has one of these too - works well enough most of the time, but like the Walmart app it's kinda pokey.
Still better than standing in the store like a schnook using that awful, slow-as-hell kiosk that reads your memory card.
Interesting: I wouldn't think there'd much of an overlap between Apple customers and Walmart shoppers.
August 24 2007 at 12:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi have used this plugin for over 6 months now with safari. i don't remember really having to search for it. i think when i hit upload and read the page it was listed right there as an option. i love it compared to selecting each photo one at a time.
August 24 2007 at 10:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wonder if it works with Costo (because WM and them share the same online provider, Internet Imaging Network, it seems). I'll try it later and will keep you posted.
August 24 2007 at 9:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGood to know. I like the Fuji printers that Wal Mart uses now that Eckerd's/CVS converted to Kodak (boo!).
You should check out Snapfish.com though. Minus waiting for photos in the mail, 10-12 cents a print can't be beat and great quality as well.
Works OK in Safari 3b, and some other stores are using this plugin as well, including Walgreens. Wal-mart's iteration of the plugin works fine, but for some reason Walgreens was a grease fire... kept hanging up and crashing Safari. YMMV. Oh, well... at least these commercial sites are sending Safari some love, eh?
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