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How To Auto Tweet Your Photos On Uploading The To Flickr

Avinash — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:36:04 +0000

Flickr is the most popular photo sharing site, so is Twitter for micro blogging.There are services which bloggers use to auto tweet their posts on twitter, but if you want to share your photo’s on Twitter it has to manually done.It may not be the case if you use TwitterGram, a free online tool that can auto tweet about your uploaded photo.

Users can also auto tweet selective photos based on Flickr Photo Tags.TwitterGram checks your flickr feed about every 10 minutes and only the most recent post within the hour is sent to Twitter.

The registration is also very easy,

Head to TwitterGram
Enter your Flickr username
Enter your Flickr username and password
Choose your Special tag, which tweets photos with only specific Flickr Tags else leave this option to tweet all the photos uploaded
Choose a prefix if you want one for your photos.

Stopping the Flickr auto tweet is also very easy, in the 2nd step above select the checkbox that says “Check here if you want to stop this for a while.” and click “UPDATE”.

Simple and easy isn’t it.Start auto tweeting your flickr photos, and get popular with your photos on the micro blogging site.

Download Multiple Flickr Photos At Once Using Bulkr Air Application

Avinash — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:36:18 +0000

Flickr is the best site to find some of the best photographs shared by users from across the world, but there is no direct way to download multiple photos from flickr at once, Bulkr is a Adobe Air App that can download your photostream, all of your sets, your favorites or photos from other Flickr users etc., and works on any platform.Downloads can also be resumed if broken.

Bulkr Features :

Backup original size photos (including private) to your computer
Download upto 200 photos in batches with a click of a button from:
- Your photostream
- Your Sets
- Your favorites
- Explored photos
- Flickr search
- Any user’s photostream
Download photos in 6 different sizes (Square, Thumbnail, Small, Medium, Large & Original ).
Preview images before download
Resume download if connection breaks during download.

Download Bulkr Air App

Collecta Real Time Search Engine

Avinash — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:54:58 +0000

Search Engines index webpages and then show them in search results, but Collecta is a real time search engine that show your results based on your search keyword as it happens and a published on the World Wide Web.

Your can also filter your results by narrowing down your search to

Just articles or blog posts,
Comments on blog posts
Updates from Twitter,Jaiku,Identica
Photos from Flickr

The best thing is that your searches are also saved in the left hand side and without having to search for results for the same keyword again.Results appear in the center column and on clicking a preview of the page is shown on the right hand side.

What i noticed was that as the results were real time and results of different languages get mixed up, which might not be liked by many.It would be great addition if more real time sources can be added and an option for language filtering can can make it even better.

I feel an iPhone App or desktop widget for something like can be the best addition that can get real time results on the iPhone or PC desktop.

How To Set Flickr Photos As Twitter Backgrounds

Avinash — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:06:47 +0000

Feeling bored with default Twitter backgrounds, or static Twitter background Images.Then change your Twitter with your Flickr Images using Flickr My Background which sets your latest Flickr photo as your Twitter background image, updated every hour.

It’s very simple to setup, just provide your Flickr username and password and allow Flickr My Background App thats it.You can also stop Flickr My Background from rotating your Twitter Background with your Flickr Photos by visiting this URL and provide your Twitter username and password.

If your a professional photographer or a casual camera enthusiast then this can be useful in promoting your work.

Source : DownloadSquad

How To Find Creative Commons License Photos For Your Blog

Avinash — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:39:39 +0000

If you are a blogger who uses lot of images in your blog posts then you can look for Creative Commons License images on Flickr right from your WP Editor by using Photo Dropper WordPress plugin that lets you add Flickr photos to your posts.Creative Commons licensed photos – images that are licensed for shared use.

If you run a commercial blog you can exclude photos marked non-commercial, For that Go to Options > Photo Dropper and check the box that says “Show only photos that can be used commercially”.

How To Use :

Once you install the Photodropper Plugin, the PD Button is available at the top right of your “write post” panel.Clicking on that will launch the search interface where you can type in the keywords.

The search will return photos matching your keywords.
Once you find a photo you would like to add to your post, click on any of the sizes (”S”mall, “M”edium, “L”arge) to add that photo and attribution link to your post.
The photo will appear in your post, followed by a link to the specific CC license for that photo, as well as a link back to the photodropper site, and a link to the photographer’s Flickr page.

Download Photo Dropper WordPress Plugin

Elisa – Open Source media Center

Avinash — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:17:19 +0000

Elisa (Alpha) is an open source cross-platform Media Center connecting the internet to your all-in-one media player.With Elisa you can watch movies,Browse internet and see pictures with previews in animated slideshows, auto device and network detection, watch videos and pictures from popular Internet services like YouTube, Flicker and many more.

Features :

Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including
H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska.
Commercially licensed plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo.
Autodetection of media on your network includes:
- Network Drives
- Rhythmbox
- iTunes
- Windows Mediaplayer
- iPods, cameras
- USB hard drives
Flickr integration.
YouTube integration.
Shoutcast integration.
Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop.
Audio visualization during playback.
Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop
Browse music collection by artists or albums covers.

Video DEMO

Elisa can also be controlled by the Nintendo Wii-mote, check out this Video here.

Looking at their list of future features of the next release it looks to be a good application.

Elisa – HomePage|| Download ||Screenshots Version ( 0.3.5 )

Set Random Images From Flickr As WallPapers

Avinash — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:00:51 +0000

If you look out for wallpapers at Flickr, searching and saving them can be tedious.So here’s a tool called WallpaperFlickr that can get you wallpapers from Flickr based the tags you mention or based on the username.

You can have it rotate the wallpaper at regular intervals, like once a day for example.

You can mention the position of the random wallpaer

Requirements:

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed
Active Internet Connection.

Download WallPaperFlickr from here.

Technorati Tags: Flickr,Freeware

Phreetings – Send EGreeting Cards Using Flickr Photos

Avinash — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:31:55 +0000

Phreeting allows you to create and send online greeting cards using images from flickr.Just enter your keywords and then drag and drop the image into the rectangle on the top right side, and type your message in the second rectangle.

There are 7 color schemes to customize your greetings.

You have to copy+paste the url generated available below the color scheme and send it to your friend for him to see the greeting or just press send to open your default e-mail-client in your system.

Create your phreetings ( Photo + Greetings ) here.

Technorati Tags: Flickr

Get Any Flickr Photo In Higher Resolution

Avinash — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:36:00 +0000

You can have a higher resolution image of any Flickr Photo using FlickrGetHighRez extension in FireFox that lets you view the largest available resolution of any image/photo on flickr.

How to use :

Install the Firefox Addon next right clicking on any image/photo, in flickr, and selecting the “Flickr: Load HighRez” menu item will launch a new window with the pointed photo in its largest resolution.

My Observation: I have observed that not all the latest images/photos on Flickr have an higher resolution image,But older images/photos were having higher resolution images.

Downlaod FlickrGetHigh from here.

Add Speech Bubbles To Your Photographs

Avinash — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:40:00 +0000

As the familiar proverb says

A picture is worth a thousand words is a familiar proverb.

But where are the words in the picture?Adding a speech bubble will definitely ease the way of describing the photograph.

Using Bubblesnaps it just takes three steps to add a speech bubble.Head over to Bubblesnaps to start adding speech bubbles for the photographs from your hard-drive or you could also use your flickr photos.The uploaded photograph has to be a JPEG file.You have two bubbles to choose from, a speak bubble or a think bubble.After adding the speech bubbles you could add an theme to your photograph before sending it as an email to your friends.

Have a look at the Bubblesnaps DEMO

It would be great if there was firefox extension to this.