Acobox.com is an image hosting site which boasts that it is extremely easy for bloggers to use. Instead of downloading, resizing and uploading an image, you simply choose the one you want from acobox and with one click it can be added to your blog, with appropriate sizing.
However, if you want to use your own pictures, acobox is frustrating. All pictures submitted must be approved. Pictures submitted may take 2 or more days for approval. They only want high quality pictures, so it's not useful to host family shots. Photos must be submitted with the longest side 500 pixels and no more than 100KB, so a picture with any detail must be cropped to a non-standard aspect ratio.
Most seriously of all, any pictures submitted are no longer your own property. You can select one of four levels from public domain– where the photographer no longer has any control of the picture, to display only– where a user may only display the picture with no changes. But in all cases, you grant to Acobox the irrevocable, but non-exclusive, perpetual rights to your photos. These are transferable and sub-licensable without paying you, for any use, public, commercial or not. You will not receive any monetary compensation, and photos may be altered or re-formatted.
What they advertise most is that you can insert images on your blog with one click. This is close to true. You just select the picture and size, left or right alignment, and with just using Control+C and Control+V you can copy the code and paste it into your own blog. Of course many blogs support HTML templates so that you only have to copy the image location almost as easily.
In addition, the number of pictures available at acobox is extremely limited at the present time.
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