For easily uploading images to your Mac OS X Radio UserLand site, try ImageWell, a finely written, free application that uploads images to various locations, allowing you to make some handy last minute changes in the process.

Currently, I have my iDisk and two ftp servers configured and waiting for an image to drop into the "well". All I have to do is drag and drop an image on to the ImageWell dock icon and the application will create a thumbnail of the image for my viewing pleasure, allow me to make changes to the image such as add a watermark or edge it with a shape, and most importantly, choose which server it should go to.

For instance, I dropped an image of me and my buddy Nick just before catching a ferry to a friend's wedding on Angel Island (Extra points if you guess which one is me) on to the dock icon and here is the resulting ImageWell window.

I want this image to fit in the browser window a bit better so I change the width and height, make sure the correct location is going to get the image, and then I 'send' it.

After the image is sent to the server, which is very obvious from the well implemented upload status bar, the clipboard is populated with a proper HTML image tag, ready to paste into my weblog editing window. In order to get the proper code in the clipboard, be sure to click on the 'More' button in the ImageWell application window, then choose 'html ' in the section "url to copy to clipboard". You only need to do this once. I switch to MarsEdit or the Radio Desktop Home Page, and simply paste in the url.

Here's a neat trick. Drag and drop images in your browser right onto the ImageWell dock icon and upload it to your site without even saving it to your hard disk first.

Thank you XtraLean Software for ImageWell! You make adding images to my Radio site an intuitive breeze. And thanks to Missing Manual reader Will Findlay for mentioning this application to me.