Here's a new little feature we just added, by popular demand. You can enter an image URL on its own line anywhere in a post, and we'll expand the image. What's new? Now we automatically download/host it too.

To do this in your web browser, just right click the image and choose "Copy Image Location". Then paste it into your email or new post editor window.

So this... http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/funny-pictures-cats-eat...

Becomes this...

The same magic also happens when you use the Posterous bookmarklet. It's a special bookmark that lets you grab things from pages, and images get pulled down so you don't have to worry about hotlinking, which is frowned upon in the blogging world.

If you're wondering if you can paste a whole bunch of urls in a row-- you can. Just make sure each is on its own line, and we'll do the rest.

Sharing images from the web on your posterous just got easier. Questions? Fire us a line at help@posterous.com.