Friedbeef’s Tech

Thanks to the open Flickr API, photo sharing and discovery has never been easier. Pageflakes has taken advantage of this with this handy module which allows anyone to discover great photos by allowing you to track your favourite Flickr tags and display them in a 3×3 gallery.

One interesting aspect of this is that it that also allows you to create multiple modules on a page so you can have a whole page full of your favourite different photo categories, and it allows you to publish that page publicly so you can share it with the anyone else (no sign up required). See this page for an example.

Options here are limitless. For example, you can create a page where different family and friend’s pictures are instantly updated to a single location, or you can create themed pages where you can galleries of your favourite subject. eg. Nature, football, which are dynamically updated every time you visit the page.

You can create your own gallery by :

1. Signing up (free) for Pageflakes here,
2. Add as many Flickr modules as you want
3. Change the Flickr tags on the modules to the categories you want, or the users you want to track
4. Kick back and enjoy! (Or publish your page to the web and let your friends enjoy it!)

You can check out the public gallery I created here.

Update June 17th 2006: Added the step by step section to create dynamic galleries.

Disclaimer : Pageflakes is a sponsor of Friedbeef.com

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Cooking is no doubt one of the best ways to save money. The problem is, bar instant noodles, plain rice and fried eggs, I can’t really cook. Enter foodieview the recipe search engine, which has so far certainly made life easier for a cooking newbie like myself.

Here are 3 things I love about foodieview:

1. Ability to filter down by ingredient, style, and source. For example, if you want a chicken dish which contains cheese, Italian style, and by Martha Stewart, you can get it.
2. Strict site indexing policy. You don’t have to deal with crap you find with regular search engines like Yahoo or Google. This ensures a higher quality of the food sites it searches.
3. Ability to save favourite recipes to a single location and share those links with your friends.

While you’re at it, you can also try watching the cooking show for geeks Ctrl-Alt-Chicken, co-hosted by Alex Albrecht (co-founder of Digg).

Related Links:
Lifehack’s Kickstart Your Cooking 101
User experience with Foodieview

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Picture in picture Mosaics are always fascinating. This design project uses a vast picture library to display a picture within a picture in a never ending loop. Very entertaining :)

Try this project here

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