Part of the reason for Flickr’s enormous popularity is their open API that supports a large number of so-called Apps, which are third party software that make your flickr experience more fun and useful.
In the past, there was no centralized location for Flickr Apps. Users had to look for them on the web. Developers had to promote their apps using their own websites. It all changed yesterday. Flickr has made a home for these third-party apps called App Garden.
The App Garden does not automatically list all the apps created using Flickr API. Developers have to submit them. There aren’t many apps there yet one day after its launch but we can be certain it will change soon. You may want to check out the five cool apps picked by ReadWriteWeb.
More about Flickr App Garden
Wow, I didn’t expect to see this. Check out the official White House photostream on flickr! These photos are free to use subject to certain restrictions.
The photos were taken by Official White House photographer Pete Souza. Occasionally, photo (for example, this one) has EXIF information left untouched. Apparently Pete is a Canon guy, shooting with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Nikon should really send Pete a free D3X.
In the photo above: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wear 3-D glasses while watching Super Bowl 43, Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, at a Super Bowl Party in the family theater of the White House.
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Photo sharing on May 1st, 2009.
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If for any reason you want to download large number of photos from your Flickr account, you don’t have to do it one by one on Flickr website. Downloadr is a free Windows application that can make your life a whole lot easier. It can not only download your own photos, but also it can search Flickr for public or Creative Commons photos and download them as well. Please note you need to have a Flickr Pro account in order to be able to download original photos. Otherwise, you can only download scaled down versions.
Found via AppScount.
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Tips and techniques on January 18th, 2009.
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Picasa is an excellent photo organizer with decent editing and creative functionalities. The built-in photo browser is very fast. It never chock up on my huge collection of RAW photos. I can browse through thousands of photos scattered in hundreds of folders without ever waiting for anything to update on the screen. On the contrary, Nikon ViewNX often struggle badly on the same computer. Typically Picasa only uses about 25% of the memory ViewNX needs.
When it comes to photo sharing, I am a big fun of flickr. Picasa has good integration with Google’s Picasa Web Albums but I don’t think Google has any interest in supporting a competing photo sharing site like flickr, especially when flickr is dominating. We shouldn’t be desperate though: Google’s Picasa supports third party extensions using a couple of APIs. Someone has created a Picasa plugin (button) called “picasa2flickr” that installs with just a couple of clicks. It doesn’t work alone: you also need to have Flickr Uploadr installed on your computer.
To use it, select one or more photos in Picasa, then click on the “Send to Flickr” button. Picasa will launch Flickr Uploadr with the photos you have selected. You can then do your usual title, description, tags, etc in Flickr Uploadr before uploading them to your flickr account.
Flickr is the no doubt the king of all photo-sharing sites. If you are only interacting with Flickr via the web interface, you are missing out a lot of powerful features provided softwares that use Flickr API. The people at hongkiat.com have gathered a great list of tools to enhance your flickr experience. Digg it if you like it!
Found via Digg.
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Software on October 17th, 2008.
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The all-new Flickr uploader 3.0 is available for download. There are numerous improvements from the previous version.
- You can now add titles, tags and descriptions to photos, add them to multiple sets and adjust each photo’s privacy settings.
- You can reorder your photos before uploading by simply dragging and dropping them.
- By selecting multiple photos, you can replace the titles of the selected photos, add to existing individual photo descriptions, add to existing individual tags.
- You can work offline. You can close the application in the middle of the process and restart from where it is left.
- You can start an upload and immediately add more photos and start to tag and organize them, all while the first batch of photos is being sent to Flickr.
Many people are happy with the new Flickr uploader and I am one of them. However there are also some reports of errors and bugs in this official Flickr uploader 3.0 discussion thread.
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Software on December 16th, 2007.
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Brian Auer of Epic Edits Blog has just written up another very popular post on portrait photography techniques. Illustrated with some great flickr photos, it should be an inspiring read if your portrait photography is lacking in styles.
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Photography blogs on December 11th, 2007.
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