July 2, 2008
iPhoto is an addition in Mac OS X which I prefer over the traditional method of viewing and collecting photos in Windows. I highly doubt that merely keeping all your pictures in folders justifies a proper photo “album”. Shucks, there goes the infamous “Mac-ego” again. I apologize for that. But still, my stand remains — [...]
June 24, 2008
Web-based tools are becoming increasingly popular as the division between the desktop and the internet begins to blur. Adobe Air brings webapp functionality to the desktop. Now what about desktop functionality within a browser? Well, it seems as if Yahoo wants to get in the game by introducing BrowserPlus. BrowserPlus allows developers to create dynamic [...]
June 23, 2008
There is no doubt about the fact that Flickr is the most wonderful tool to upload photos to the web and share it with others. Plus it’s the most popular too. If you love uploading photos to Flickr, and have been using for sometime now, maybe 2-3 years then you’ll know that although it’s a [...]
June 9, 2008
Wallpaper is an ever fascinating topic for me. Earlier this year I wrote an in depth article on pimping wallpapers and we’re constantly adding new desktop wallpaper resources to the Make Use Of directory. Today I have a very cool tool for you. John’s Background Switcher is different from all previously mentioned applications, because not [...]
February 21, 2008
How many people out there have hundreds, if not thousands, of digital pictures stored on their computers accumulated over years that no one has ever seen? Me! Thankfully, I try to upload most of my pictures to free online photo sharing sites like Picasa and Flickr to at least get some return on the time [...]
January 27, 2008
I love it when events are timed perfectly. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been contemplating how best to download my photos from my Flickr account before the pro membership expires in March. I kept putting off the task because it wasn’t very appealing to think of sitting at the computer for hours [...]
September 26, 2006
Flickr is an interesting and really popular web application owned by Yahoo. It is one of the best examples of new Web2.0 generation websites. The system they have adopted combines simple photo storage service with community driven sharing and tagging of photos and serves as an example for many popular web services. Flickr offers really [...]
