May 22, 2013
In one inspiring move, Yahoo! has upped the ante by offering a full 1 Terabyte of space to all Flickr users, and by updating the already-dated Flickr interface. To put things into perspective, 1 TB amounts to over 500,000 original, full-resolution, pixel-perfect, brilliant photos, according to Yahoo!. The free TB offer comes neatly packaged in a completely redone user interface which is bigger, neater, and far more appealing than the old photo stream.
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May 11, 2013
We all knew it was coming. Back in February Twitter announced that it would be shutting down Posterous by the end of April. Some bloggers saw it coming from the day that Twitter acquired the popular blogging platform. With that day finally here, if you’re still looking for an alternative to meet your blogging and automated sharing needs, we’ve come up with a list of 6 viable alternatives.
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February 25, 2013
Though the photo and video sharing site Flickr.com has been overshadowed by Instagram, it is still a powerfully popular and useful site for photo hobbyists and professional photographers, as well as a worldwide gallery of some of the most beautiful photos ever taken. Flickr was launched and became popular as a website back in 2004. But now, probably the more convenient way to access and browse the site is on mobile devices like the iPad.
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February 23, 2013
Flickr updated its iOS app with a handful of changes like friend tagging, a higher-resolution photo display and faster photo uploads. Just last December, Flickr revamped the entire interface. For starters, the latest change sees better photo management from your device’s Camera Roll.
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February 10, 2013
Some Flickr users have been receiving emails regarding a privacy-setting bug affecting their photos. Whether you’ve received this email or not, this bug may affect you if you have any photos on Flickr. According to the email, a site-wide bug was discovered that caused private photos to be switched to public. Once the bug was discovered, Flickr decided to take an extra precaution and set every photo that may have been impacted to private.
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January 19, 2013
Flickr has one of the largest collections of Creative Commons images. The Creative Commons set of licenses allows everyone from educators, artists, and authors to tap into this invaluable source and use the photo for their creative works. The Flickr Commons archive has grown from its humble beginnings on January 16 2008 with 1,500 photos to a mammoth collection of more than 250,000 photos in just five years.
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January 16, 2013
Between Instagram, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, you probably have a lot of photographs that you've uploaded to the web. It becomes a pretty unwieldy task trying to keep track of all your images in so many different places. While there have been a few sites to pop up that aim to merge the experience, making it easy to access all of your online photos in one place, few do it as well as Stipple.
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January 12, 2013
Creative Commons images have lots of takers and find a place in everything from presentations to blogging. There are lots of ways to search for Creative Commons images labeled for reuse. Now, with the help of Yahoo Image Search, you can tap into Flickr and its huge databank of Creative Commons images.
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January 2, 2013
Whether you're a free Flickr user or a pro account holder, you are entitled to receive a gift from Flickr - the gift of a pro account for three months! But, hurry as the promotion ends on January 4th.
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December 13, 2012
The widely popular photo sharing site, Flickr.com, released yesterday a completely redesigned version of its iPhone photo and video app. Users should find the new user interface even easier to use, with additional unique camera filters, Full Groups capabilities, and the viewing of Flickr's selected local and worldwide "Interesting" photos.
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September 19, 2012
With the amount of information we post online, we're putting an awful lot of faith in third party services to keep our content and photos safe. Between Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, there's no limit to the way we share our images online. And thanks to a few other third party services, there's no limit to the ways we can back up our online photos to our computers.
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August 26, 2012
Flickr users, your Android experience has finally been improved. No longer will you have to use an app that’s not up to par with its iOS sibling. As of this week, there’s a new Flickr version for Android in town, and it brings many much needed UI improvements as well as some useful new features.
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August 22, 2012
When I want to share private family photos, I find in the long run that iPhoto is still one of the most useful ways to manage and share many of my most cherished pictures. iPhoto 9 has a few elegant free options for both sharing photos and making sure they are still around for years to come. If you're not a heavy user of iPhoto, you may not know about its email collage feature, and its built-in integration with Flickr and Facebook.
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May 2, 2012
Flickr has just added a photo share button to their site that enables members to post and share their photos on Pinterest. Photos pinned from Flickr will be properly attributed, regardless where they are pinned from, just as they are on other sites including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and WordPress. Flickr says you can pin all [...]
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April 27, 2012
Flickr has just rolled out a nifty update that adds some awesome features that users have waited for. The main feature is a super quick HTML5 uploader. This new uploader makes the most of HTML5, and uses it especially well to optimize the overall speed of their site. Flickr claims that upload times are improved [...]
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