the problem i have is that all there photos are *.wb1…how can i have them with an extention that i can open with photoshop for example…thanks !

After googling for a while, I found a small tool that would do just what BigBen want, convert the Webshots file into JPG. JPG format is widely supported by most image editing software, including Photoshop. The handy application is called Ultimate Webshots Converter. You can download it from their website (in French language. Just browse through the menu on top and find link to the download page).

Now here’s a quick tutorial on how to use UWC to convert your Webshots file.

1. Run UWC. Select File – Open.

   

2. Select the Webshoots file you want to convert. Click Open.

   

3. A new dialog will be opened and you can see the image there. Now click on Save (the Disk icon).

   

4. Save Dialog appears. Enter the name of the converted file, then click Save. In this example, I simply name it ‘test’.

   

5. That’s it! The Webshots file has been converted into JPG. You can see it on the Explorer and open it with your favourite image editor if you want.

   

6. If you have a large number of Webshots files that you want to convert, use the Batch Convert tool. It will convert several files at once. Just select the directory or multiple Webshots files, and it’d convert them all. The filename will be the same as the original filename though (but with different extension), so you have to rename the filename manually after that.

   

Hope this simple tutorial is clear enough to understand :p

Now, actually, you can get more than 5 photos if you want, without become a Premium Membership. The WebShots web developer team is probably forget to use session, and they use cookie instead. Not really a problem. But if they stored the number of photos we’ve downloaded in certain day using cookie, that could be a problem (for them). I think you already get the point here.

In short, downloaded photo history is stored in cookie. What happen if the cookie is gone? You’re right. They’ll think that you haven’t download any photos yet, so you can download some more. )

So the hacking attempt is simple. Download until you reach your limit, clean your domain cookie (not usual cookie), and download again. Repeat it until you tired :d

Here’s how you do it using FireFox browser:

1. Download as many photos as you want until a download limit message appear.
2. From your Web Developer Toolbar (if it’s not there, activate it from View – Toolbar – Web Developer Toolbar), click on Miscellaneous – Delete Domain Cookies.
3. Reload the page and you’ll be asked to login again, so do it.
4. Now you can download again.

Hope it helps. And for WebShots team, you have to fix it. Keep per user download history on your database, and you’ll be saved )