This is a post by one of our new contributors, Sumesh. Flickr is undoubtedly the most popular image sharing website, and a whole community of passionate users have developed around the awesome web tool. Thousands of photographers, designers and web addicts flock to Flickr every day in the hope of finding something useful and different. Here are a few tools to enhance your Flickr experience (they include three web applications and two desktop apps):
1. How to Get a Better Flickr Viewer With Pictobrowser
There are many popular 3rd party viewers available for Flickr - Polaroid Gallery, Tiltviewer, dFGallery etc. , but few are as sleek as Pictobrowser, furthermore - it gives you a lot of options in terms of putting up interactive Flickr galleries on your own website, so your visitors can also enjoy the same viewing experience. Visit Pictobrowser
2. How to Search Flickr Faster With Compfight
Are you still stuck to Flickr’s slow and bloated search page? Try Compfight for a change of pace. Compfight is an AJAX-powered (meaning that it searches images and displays them without any extra pageload) Flickr image search engine. It pulls the images via the Flickr API, and you can choose to search for only safe images , Creative Commons licensed images(useful for blog posts) etc. The images are displayed as thumbnails, and dimensions of the image are displayed when you hover your mouse over the image. The image usually links to the Flickr page, and opens in a new tab/window when you click on it. Visit Compfight
3. How to Get More Download Options With GetFlickr
Ever wondered why you were restricted to downloadng smaller sizes of that beautiful image on Flickr? Most likely, it was because of restricted permissions. GetFlickr is a plain and easy tool to get the URL to the full-sized version of an image. Granted, GetFlickr is in need of a redesign (if it has a design, in the first place), but it is a neat little tool. Visit GetFlickr
4. How to Upload More Efficiently With FoldrMonitr
Are you still stuck with the official Flickr Uploadr? Would you like to automate uploading? Try FoldrMonitr - it watches a folder that you designate, and immediately uploads any images that have been newly added to the folder. Very useful if you need to upload a large number of images, and are too lazy/busy to upload them manually. Visit FoldrMonitr
5. How to Find Flickr Images Without a Browser With FlickrFinder
[Mac OS X only] Named after Finder on Mac OS X, FlickrFinder is a standalone application to browse Flickr images without the aid of the browser. Visit FlickrFinder here. There are also other great tools like FlickrStorm, which James recently mentioned in a post titled "A Faster Way to Use Flickr Images In Your Wordpress Blog".
Sumesh writes software and web reviews, design resources and solves your computer problems on TechZilo , and will be contributing ongoing to this blog. If you’re interested in a regular paid position or guest writing, do contact me.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
You should know that Picsviewr is using existing widgets without permission, even after the creators of the widgets requested them to stop using it.
Their lack of ethics is an embarrassment.
Diego
PictoBrowser creator
July 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
The entry for Picsviewr has just been replaced… Not sure about the controversy between Picsviewr and Pictobrowser, but am eager to avoid one on my end.
August 7th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
hi, here is something simple
facesaerch let you visualize flickr rss (or any other RSS i.e.: http://www.facesaerch.com/facesearch/?q=http://www.friedbeef.com/feed/)
with a drag&drop bookmarklet
http://www.facesaerch.com/blog/rssflow-bookmarklet/
hope you like it