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Apparently the popular photo sharing site Smugmug has a huge security hole that could allow anyone with a bit of common sense to access private photos on Smugmug. The basic problem here is that Smugmug uses URL’s for public and private galleries in a way that can be easily guessed. And whats even more shameful is that the people behind the site are aware of this issue, but they seem to be too keen to say that this is intended behavior.

If seeing private photos via publicly accessible URL’s is what you call intended behavior then I have nothing else to say to the Smugmug team..

Let me take an example here, when I typed in http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1021 into my browser, i was looking at a collection of photos that were perhaps not meant for people like you and me to have a peak at. Ofcourse Smugmug has other features like password protection, but I’m sure that most users would take password protection as an added trouble in making photos private. They probably think that by marking them as private, no one else except them could see it. But things don’t work that way at Smugmug.

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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 will have to find a user or a picture set that you like in Flickr. Let’s take our Countries in Colors Flickr account as an example. You simply copy the name of the user (in our case countries in colors) and paste it into the username dialog that appears on the first page at 123Flickr.

Second you determine the number of pictures that should appear in your gallery. Be mindful not to add too many images as this slows down loading when you will access your page.

Look at the demo below :
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