Flickr Hacks

Set your Twitter background to your Flickr photos

2008-11-11T20:34:00.000-08:00

There is a great utility that will take your latest Flickr photo and set it to your Twitter background. Very cool! Check it out!

Flickr Foldr Monitr

2007-10-04T20:12:00.000-07:00

Flickr Foldr Monitr is a must have application for any flickr junkie as it takes the work out of uploading your photos to flickr. It runs in the background and monitors a folder, automatically uploading new photos that are added. It has some great features that make tagging and creating sets a cinch. Check it out! (via)

Flickrbooth = Flickr + Photo Booth

2007-09-25T19:02:00.000-07:00

Flickrbooth is a must have app for any Mac using Flickr fan. It allows you to easily upload your Photo Booth photos to your Flickr account with the click of a button. And if your beloved Mac gets stolen, Flickrbooth could be an invaluable tool in getting it back. Just ask this guy. Check it out!

Edit Your Photos Online With Picnik

2007-03-20T21:03:00.000-07:00

Picnik is an amazing example of what can be done with the extensive flickr API in the hands of some pretty sharp people. If you want an easy way to take care of some of the standard photograph editing then Picnik is your tool. Once you authorize Picnik to access your flickr photos, you can quickly and easily crop, resize, adjust brightness, rotate, sharpen, adjust colors and reduce red eye. While Picnik plays especially well with flickr, you can use it to adjust photos on your desktop or website or from a photo search. Picnik is a free to use, one stop shop for photograph editing.

Flickr Backup

2007-02-02T20:25:00.000-08:00

Flickr Backup is the perfect tool for downloading all of your photos off Flickr and creating a backup. Flickr Backup is written in Java and available for both PC and Mac users. Flickr Backup makes short work of downloading your entire Flickr feed. Manually downloading all of your photos would take ages and is just not practicle if you have a lot of photos.

Group Trackr

2007-01-28T11:56:00.001-08:00

Group Trackr is a pretty handy site for tracking the status of flickr groups. Once you add a group, it will log user and photo data for that group making it easier to see how your groups are growing. Once you start tracking a group, Group Trackr will provide you with a rss feed so you can monitor new posts and users in the group. Groups are an excellent way to share pictures with people and Group Trackr can help you keep tabs on all of your favorite groups. Check it out!

2007-01-23T20:53:00.000-08:00

TagMaps is a very well done flickr mashup that uses Yahoo! Maps to give you a really slick tag browser in map layout. TagMaps is built using flash and it provides a really user friendly interface that is quite fun to play around with. The app was created by Yahoo Research Berkley and is a really good example of a well done mashup.

Flock Makes Using Flickr Effortless

2007-01-10T21:35:00.000-08:00

Lately I've been using Flock to manage my Flickr photos and its been great! In addition to making all the standard stuff (browsing, uploading pictures, editing pictures) a walk in the park Flock makes it easy to use your pictures for all sorts of things.

With a little slide style browser that sits at the top of the window you can easily drag your Flickr pictures into blog posts, forums, myspace comments, and just about any other website that allows you to post content. If you use Flickr alot, check out Flock.

Send To Flickr Tool For Windows XP

2007-01-08T18:54:00.000-08:00

I recently upgraded my flickr account from free to pro. My purpose for doing this is so that I can have all of my digital photos backed up to flickr. The only problem is that I've got a billion photos to upload.

It turns out that bulk uploading to flickr is actually not a problem thanks to the Send To Flickr Tool. All I have to do is install the tool, which is just a matter of installing a 1k registry script. The Send To Flickr Tool makes it so that when I'm in any folder with pictures all I have to do to upload the images is click a convenient "Publish selected items to web" link in my explorer window. This makes publishing tons of pictures a walk in the park!

Of course this is for Windows users only. If you are using a Mac then check out the Flickr iPhoto plugin.

Flickr Wallpaper Rotator

2006-12-21T08:47:00.000-08:00

For those of you that are interested in using your flickr photos for wallpaper, check out Flickr Wallpaper Rotator to cycle through your pictures. It allows you to filter by tags or username and has a bunch of other great configuration options as well. Check it out!

Create A Flickr Montage

2006-12-20T12:30:00.000-08:00

Montager is a cool (albeit processor intensive) web application that you can use to make a photo montage of any flickr photo. They've done a great job with the first version and I can't wait to see what they do to it in the future. I'm hoping to see them add the ability to create really large montages. Check it out!

Your Photos In Calendar View

2006-12-15T15:48:00.000-08:00

Did you know that you can see any photo stream on flickr in calendar format by simply appending a "/date-taken-calendar/" to the end of the URL? Its true, check it out!

(via LifeHacker)

Give the Gift of Flickr This Christmas

2006-12-13T20:03:00.000-08:00

flickr is being very generous this year for the holidays. In addition to eliminating the monthly bandwidth limit for flickr Pro Accounts, but they've also raised the monthly bandwidth on free accounts as well. There has never been a better time to give someone a flickr Pro account as a present than right now. An flickr makes it really easy to do so for just $24.95 and a cool little DIY gift card! Check it out!

An Easter Egg For Christmas From Flickr

2006-12-13T19:53:00.000-08:00

The people over at Yahoo! that run flickr must have a great sense of humor. Did you know that you can add a santa beard an hat to any picture as a note? Here is an example, give it a try!

(via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

Create Comics With Bubblr

2006-12-12T19:35:00.000-08:00

Bubblr is a great little flash application that lets you add comic strip captions to any flickr photo. It allows you to search using tags and usernames. Photo comics are great to send to friends when you get back from a trip and get all your photos downloaded onto your computer and uploaded to your flickr account. Check it out!

Flickr iPhoto Plugin

2006-12-05T19:23:00.000-08:00

For all of you Mac users, here is an excellent iPhoto plugin that enables you to upload your photos to flickr directly from iPhoto. It lets you tag your photos, add them to groups, give them titles and descriptions and it will even resize your photos for you so you don't use up all of your flickr bandwidth. There is even a trial version that restricts you to uploading five photos per session. Check it out!

View Pictures In Time With Flickrtime

2006-11-30T11:00:00.000-08:00

Flickrtime is a cool little flash app that lets you view flickr photos in a completely unique way. The way it works if you give Flickrtime a couple of tags and it displays the time using flickr pictures containing your tags. This way you will always have a good gauge on how much time you are wasting on flickr!

Here are some other great flickr flash sites you might like:
Flappr
Fastr
Flictionary
Favorites Explorer
Related Tag Browser

Flickr Camera Finder

2006-11-21T09:08:00.000-08:00

If you are in the market for a new camera or just love to drool over the latest/greatest digital camera's out there then you should check out the Flickr Camera Finder. The camera finder lets you view statistics gathered about various cameras based on flickr photos that were taking with them. It contains descriptions and reviews of tons of different makes and models of digital cameras. I love the fact that you can see pictures that were taken with various cameras. Whether its an SLR or a camera phone, chances are Flickr Camera Finder has something to say about it.

Gickr: Animated GIF Flickr Slideshow

2006-10-25T22:23:00.000-07:00

Gickr is a new flickr mashup application that lets you create an animated GIF slideshow out of images on flickr. This is a great way to create a simple slideshow for your website and not have to worry about embedding any flash or scripting. The uses for animated GIF slideshows is endless. You could use it to create funny animations to use for an avatar or for an animated digital signature. It would also be a great way to email slideshows to your friends and family. You can see the sample that I created below. Check it out!

Wallpapr: A Great Way To Get Flickr Wallpaper

2006-10-21T14:17:00.000-07:00

Flickr can be a great source for desktop wallpaper. The only drag is that not all the photos on flickr make good wallpaper material. Enter wallpapr. Wallpapr is a website that searches flickr and grabs you the best high res wallpaper images. Check it out!

Flappr: An Excellent Way To Browse Flickr

2006-10-17T14:42:00.000-07:00

Flappr is a slick flash based tool for navigating flickr photos. Just feed it a tag and let it do the rest. It displays large icons on the left that you can select to get a zoomed in view on the right. It also provides convenient information about the photo in little tabs across the bottom. As far as flash interfaces go, it doesn't get any cleaner than Flappr. Here is a screenshot:

Spell With Flickr

2006-10-14T12:05:00.000-07:00

Here is a great site that generates words using flickr photos. All you have to do is type the word that you want and then it gives you an image containing the word with flickr pictures. It sort of reminds me of a digital ransom note.

Make Yourself Official With A Flickr Badge

2006-10-12T11:16:00.000-07:00

With all of the social networking sites out there these days and all of the profiles you have to manage there is no better way to let everybody know about your flickr pictures than with a flickr badge. Its basically a little flickr passport image containing your flickr vitals that you can embed anywhere. Check out the flickr badge group here and create your very own badge here.

Sharing The Love

2006-10-05T07:46:00.000-07:00

Get Email Notifications About Photo Updates

2006-10-02T22:12:00.000-07:00

Flickr is a great app for sharing photos with your family. Wouldn't it be great if each time you added new pictures to flickr an email was automatically sent out to your family? With Notifyr you can do just that. Its extemely easy to use and you don't have to create an account or fill out any forms. All you have to do is go to Notifyr, enter the address of your flickr account, enter the email address of the person you want to notify and voila!

fastr, a classic flickr game

2006-09-29T21:47:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite flickr games is fastr. Fastr tests your tag guessing skills by displaying photos from a particlar tag one at a time. You play against all the other users on the site and the first to guess the tag gets the most points. I love it because it is simple and it brings out the competitive side in me because I know I'm playing against other people. Fastr was one of the first flickr games to come out and its truly an oldy but goody. Check it out!

flickr + pictionary = flictionary

2006-09-29T21:27:00.000-07:00

Here is a great flickr mashup that uses flickr to implement the game pictionary. It works well and is a wonerful time waster. Check it out!

Favorites Explorer

2006-09-21T21:24:00.000-07:00

Favorites Explorer is a great app for browsing through your favorite pictures on Flickr. It allows you to arrange your favorites by the flickr user that posted them making it easier to see other people's favorites. The idea is that if you've marked somebodies photo as a favorite then you will probably like their favorites. Its another great way to discover photos on flickr. Check it out!

Inspect Flickr Users With flickrInspector

2006-09-17T20:54:00.000-07:00

If you want to get information about a particular flickr user, flickrInspector is an excellent tool. flickrInspector provides all the information about a flickr user thats publicly available including photos, favorite, tags, score an most interesting photos all on one concise, well designed page. Check it out!

flickrInspector is a non-commercial website, that displays publicly available data about single flickr users. flickr itself is probably the most amazing photo sharing site. this is by no means an official tool by the makers of flickr (or yahoo), it's just what i, nils k. windisch aka netomer programmed in my free time to enhance user experience.

Edit Flickr Images Online

2006-09-12T20:52:00.000-07:00

Preloadr is a tool you can use to edit your Flickr photos online. If you have a photo that needs some touch up or tweeking this is the app to use. You could use Photoshop (which is outrageously expensive) or some other image editing desktop software such as GIMP but Preloadr will do most anything that you'd want to do to your flickr pix. You can crop, rotate, add text, histogram, scale, move, resize and more with Preloadr. If you are a seasoned Photoshop veteran you will be happy to know that Preloadr has a very Photoshop like interface complete with layers. And no download or installation is required, its all run from your browser and is completely free. Preloadr is one hell of a flickr application!

Retrievr

2006-09-11T20:26:00.000-07:00

I have no earthly clue how they did this, but Retrievr is an absolutely amazing application that searches flickr based upon drawings that you create. For example, draw a smiley face and it will return pictures of people or other animals smiling. Dray a frowining face and it will return pictures of people/animals frowning. The more artistically inclined you are, the better results you will get, but it works even for the most crude drawings. Check it out!

Related Tag Browser

2006-09-11T20:19:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite things to do is surf Flickr using random tags that pop in my head. I could spend hours doing this. Related Tag Browser is a nice way of browsing tags on flickr. The best part about it is the interface, it uses flash to display photos and tags in a very unique, fun, intuitive and user friendly way. Check it out!

Flickr Toys

2006-09-11T19:51:00.000-07:00

As many of you know, Flickr has one of the most extensive web APIs out there today. In geekless terms this means that they provide tools for allowing programmers to access their system in order to build upon it and create great new applications based on Flickr. There are so many great web apps and mashups that leverage the Flickr API that it will be the subject of many posts to come on Flickr Hacks, but I wanted to let you know about a few of them now:

FD's Flickr Toys is a collection of some very cool Flickr tools. I've spent alot of time playing around here. Make sure to check out the Photo Wall and if you are in the market for a digital camera, check out the Top Digital Cameras tool which will tell you which cameras are the most popular for taking pictures on Flickr.

Fastr is a very addictive game that where you are pitted against other players by trying to guess which tag that a group of pictures represents. Fastr also comes in widget form so you can put it on your myspace page or blog.

Badgr is a great little widget for displaying your flickr picks on your blog. You can read more about it on my sister blog, Myspace Hacks.

Splashr is a great little tool for creating cool presentations and slideshows with your flickr pictures.

... and there are many many more to come!

Geo Tagging Your Photos

2006-09-08T20:08:00.000-07:00

Last week Flickr introduced the highly anticipated Geo Tag capabilities so that you can now associate a location with your photos. Its extremely easy to get started doing this, all you have to do is log into your flickr account, select the "manage" link, and then select the "Map" tab. Now geotag your photos by navigating around the Yahoo! map, zooming in/out and dragging photos onto the map. Flickr allows you to both privately and publically tag photos.

What makes geotagging so cool is that it provides you with a whole new way to view flickr photos. Now you can navigate a map of all your (and other people's) photos zooming in and out to get more precise locations for pictures to view. You can associate a photo with any latitude/longitude coordinates which allow you to get extremely precise tagging photos only a few feet apart. This will make it easier to connect with other flickr users in your area that have similar interests. Not to mention it gives you a way to easily access photos of a particular place.

Here are a couple very short videos (less than a minute) that will have you geotagging your flickr photos like a pro in no time:

Geotagging your flickr photos.
How to explore photos on the map.

Whats really amazing is that over just one week of this feature being released there are already over 3 million geo tagged photos on flickr!

Flickr Leech

2006-09-07T21:48:00.000-07:00

Flickr Leech is a great mashup application that allows you to search for and view a large number of thumbnails at a time, making it faster and easier to look at pictures. I love looking at tons of photos and I have a pretty smokin fast internet connection which makes Flickr Leech a pretty ideal app for browsing Flickr. Flickr Leech allows you to search through photos by user, set, pool, tag and favorites. Check it out!

Welcome to Flickr Hacks!

2006-09-07T20:03:00.000-07:00

Here you will find articles and resources that will help you get the best out of your Flickr experience. Flickr Hacks is in no way associated with Yahoo! or Flickr. Thanks for stopping by!