Finding images for articles and presentations can be a nuisance. Unless you’re an expert in creating your own images, you probably use Google Images to find pictures that will fit the theme of your project or article. Most people use Google Images because there’s a huge selection of high quality images there, but visiting unknown sites to open full size images is risky. You could get yourself a nasty virus, and what about when you are looking for images with children? Do you cringe as much as I do at what might pop up? When searching for pictures, half the time, you find the image wasn’t even what you were looking for, or it was a broken image and you have to start over again. There has to be a better way!
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Search Images Safely and Quickly With Google Image Ripper
By | February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
How To Create A Screensaver Using Your Flickr Photos [Mac]
By | May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Most of the people who use the photo sharing service Flickr are fairly proud of the collection of images that they have created. After all, the images on your Flickr profile could represent five years of photographing the national parks of our nation, copies of your digital art projects, or it could simply hold beloved memories of your family vacations. No matter which is the case, it is easy to understand why you might want to use the images from your Flickr profile as the screen saver on your Mac. If you are ready to switch your view, simply follow these instructions and you will be able to use your Flickr URL to create a RSS feed that the screen saver software can process.
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How to Schedule Photo Uploads To Your Flickr Account
By | August 11, 2010 |
Flickr has been my favorite photo sharing website for years. This is because Flickr is so easy to navigate and I always find the best images for my articles and projects at Flickr.
Flickr is also a great place for photo sharing, you can create photo sets and upload photos to your Flickr account for free. The photos can be tagged, you can join Flickr groups of your choice and participate in the community to start a discussion.
But sometimes, I need to schedule photo uploads to my Flickr account. Let’s take an example to understand this.
Suppose I am on a Family trip and have been taking photos of tourist places. I want to share all the photos which I take during the trip with my friends and followers. It would be a great idea when I can tell all my followers that I will be uploading all the images on Saturday at 10 AM.
But the problem comes when I am not in front of the computer or have no access to internet at that particular time. In such situations you have to upload photos to a third party site and schedule the updates to your Flickr account.
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7 Tools To Make Flickr More User Friendly
By | May 13, 2010 |
Flickr is an useful place where you can upload and share your photos with your friends, and also a source to find interesting and attractive photos. Being an active Flickr user, I used Flickr frequently to store my photos and also to find relevant pictures for my blog post. Despite the great interface, there are still several features that are lacking or less than desirable (such as photos uploading and searching).
At here, we will do what we do best, by recommending 7 different applications—some web based and some desktop— that make Flickr even better.
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Heapr: A Super Fast Meta Search Engine That Is Worth Using
By | April 23, 2010 |
When you use Google to search for stuffs, how do you want it to be served – slow, normal or fast? I prefer it to be fast, that why when I was introduced to Heapr, I like it instantly.
Just like any other meta search engines out there, Heapr uses Google as its backend engine and display the search result to its users. What differentiate itself from the rest is that it is lightning fast, as fast as you start typing on the keyboard. Search results are displayed on the fly. As soon as you finished typing your search terms, the search result will be ready for you.
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How to Use Digikam to Export Photos to Flickr, PicasaWeb, and Facebook
By | September 14, 2009 |
Digikam is a free and open source photo management software package for KDE. Many KDE-based Linux distributions either come with Digikam installed or have it available in their repositories. With Digikam, you can import photos from your digital camera or flash memory, organize and tag them, rate them, edit them, and export them to various services or custom galleries.
Three popular services that Digikam can handle are Flickr, PicasaWeb, and Facebook. The first two are social photo sites, and the last is a social networking site. All three support photo plugins used by Digikam. This makes uploading photos quick, easy, and painless.
I am operating under the assumption that you already have accounts on the services you want to use. If not, you will need to register and activate whichever accounts you want before you proceed.
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Flickr Gallery Plus Makes Flickr Even More Fun To Use
By | January 31, 2009 |
Flickr is one of my favourite websites. I use it for storing photos, searching for interesting photos for my blog posts and to meet like minded people.
The best part is the simple and plain interface and the social aspect. The sheer number of users active on Flickr make the whole experience of photography very social and fun.
Flickr was one of the first websites to use web 2.0 elements in its design but it hasn’t really kept up with the rest of the web since then, especially the process of browsing photos in a set. Don’t you agree that it is plain annoying having to click a hundred times just to see all the pics in a set.
Don’t be sad though, my friend, Flickr Gallery Plus is a step in the right direction. This is a Firefox extension whose sole purpose in life is to make your Flickr photo browsing experience a better one.
