[Stealth Mode] Yahoo Working on Flickr Video
Amidst all the media frenzy on the Yahoo acquisition, and the protesting Flickr Users opposing the Micr0s0ft takeover, we have yet another rumor from Dan Faber at ZDNet who believes that Flickr would be debuting its video service in the coming months. This isn’t all that surprising, its been there forever in the rumor mills but its timing has something interesting, considering the impending hostile bid from Microsoft. As I’ve already mentioned before this deal isn’t a good idea for the Web2.0 culture, that Yahoo has given us for... Read The Rest →
1001 – A Flickr Client
Every other day we see an app being built that takes advantage of the versatile Flickr API. An App that caught my eye today was 1001 that bills itself as the desktop version of Flickr. Though 1001 carries a weird name, it performs just about everything the online version of Flickr does, be it upload photos, tagging, browsing streams, or just about anything else you can do with Flickr. 1001 is a powerhouse, I just installed it on my Hackintosh PC (OSX Running on PC) and it works like a... Read The Rest →
Get a Flickr Pro Account Free For 3 Months
If you are planning to purchase yourself a Flickr Pro Account, then this is the right time to do so. Well if you are wondering how, Flickr has a deal running for the month of January wherein if you purchase a Gift Account, 3 Extra free months are credited to your Flickr Account. Which means you get 15months of Flickr Pro Account for just 24.95$, not a bad deal isn’t it? Well here is how it works.. Go to the Flickr gift site. Purchase a 12 month gift subscription which... Read The Rest →
Flickr Adds Photo Editing
The Flickr team has launched photo editing tools via the previously announced partnership with Picnik. Picnik is one of the best online photo editors out there, and its partnership with Flickr means uber cool photo editing for Flickr Users. I am not going tell you about how the Photo editing is done, because details are already on the Flickr blog. All you need to do is Click the “edit photo” button above any of your stored photos, and Flickr launches the Picnik editor without leaving the Flickr site. When you... Read The Rest →
Flickr to map the world's latest photo hotspots
My favorite online photo service Flickr seems to get better with every other passing day. Its nice to see Yahoo continuing with development of Flickr. Flickr yesterday announced a new feature dubbed Places that aims to help you in Finding photos taken at a particular place. This new feature will allow you to use Flickr Places to explore places you’ve never been to. Flickr has handpicked over 10,000 places worldwide to showcase photos that were shot over there. Flickr will also provide other information like Maps, Weather and Time at... Read The Rest →
Flickr to get Online Photo Editing Tools
According to Techcrunch Flickr will very soon be getting basic photo editing tools from Picnk, that happens to be one of the most popular sites that edit photos. This when implemented would mean that Flickr users get a host of ways to edit their photos. I am sure that will be a great hit with the users, since the current photo editing tools on Flickr are limited to Image rotation and cropping. Picknik on Flickr would mean, I can edit photos using the powerful Picnik photo editor and edit my... Read The Rest →
Super Sexy Ways to Search eBay, Flickr, Amazon etc..
I am sure you have all heard of Flickr, Amazon, eBay etc. These sites are extremely famous in their own niche but they do have limitations. What if you wanted to search the vast repository of data stored on these services. If you are a Flickr Addict like me then look no further than FlickrStorm. FlickrStorm is an enhanced version of the Flickr Search engine that allows us to do more with the search results than the standard Flickr Search Engine. FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr! It works... Read The Rest →
FlickrSync : Easily Sync Photos
The Free and Open Source FlickrSync allows you to easily backp all your photos to Flickr. It allows you to assign folders which have images in it and then Syncs with the Flickr Server everytime a new photo is added to the folder. This makes sure every new image that you add to a folder gets added onto Flickr. Here is a brief Rundown onto its features : Browse local folders and flickr sets and match your local folders to the corresponding flickr sets. Create new Sets when uploading new... Read The Rest →
Flickr Galleries for Your Blog
Do you want to add that super cool Flickr Slideshow to your blog. While Flickr itself doesn’t have any slideshow tool that you can embed in your blog. 123Flickr 123Flickr is a gallery creating utility that generates code for you to insert a cute Flickr gallery in your website. It is available at 123Flickr.com. It is not restricted to your own pictures, and you can create galleries from any Flickr picture set or Flickr user you have an interest in. It does not work (yet) with Flickr collections. First, you... Read The Rest →
Sexy AIR App – flump
The guys over at Adobe have a launched an uber cool app for Adobe AIR called flump i.e. flickr dump. flump does a very simple job of downloading all the public photos of a user to your desktop.. Using flump is not that straighforward so i have included the steps that you should take to get flump working.. Download and install the application from the AIR file. Once you have installed and launched the application, enter the flickr account ID of the account that you want to download the images... Read The Rest →
