Category Archives: flickr

Brendyn Alexander invited me to join Flickr last month. I scouted around the website most of the time, and finally today, I really like Flickr a lot. What the heck is that?

Flickr is a website which you can store, sort, search and share your live photos online. Like Tickle, Flickr joins the social networking with pictures and moblog. There's everything you need to know more in Flickr FAQs page.

I'm glad that I can email photos automically into my Flickr account by using my camera pager. R.I.P. to Textamerica.

Also one more thing to tell you about my blog update: I added a new section on left side of content: My Flickr.

Flickr lives!

The 2004 year is approaching to be over soon; and I looked back one of my fresh memories of my life: yearly of the images from my digital camera. Speaking of camera, I have bought Canon PowerShot S330 in July 2002 and have been using this for almost three years, and it never looked better, and is still in good shape. I saved least five thousand pictures; formatted by 1600x1200 or 2.0 megapixels. All of the images stored in my six 650 MB CDs. Great moments of the images I looked back, and I have an idea: why don't I select the top 25 favorite pictures each year by using my PowerShot S330. There are total of 75 pictures stored in Flickr online photo management, and all of them are priceless for you to enjoy your time to view the slideshows:

Pictures of 2002

Pictures of 2003

Pictures of 2004

Instructions note: Click the mouse cursor over the picture slideshow to view the full information include the caption. Click that picture again to bring back the full screen. Move the cursor below inside the slideshow to navigate the thumbnails.

Today I went to Flickr website, surf into Flickr groups: Deaf. There are seven members (including me two times) in Deaf Flickr group. I went to every members pages and saw every pictures. Also there's something I would like to show you I found via here:

Short answer: Powerbook keyboard could become problem in long term while it's not caring.

However, let me tell you a story about my history of keyboard: I am typing on my very keyboard (I do not know what the brand name of keyboard is: I do believe its third party. I have been using this since 1998, one time it was spilled over Mountain Dew pop can during my first year at RIT in 2000. I was pissed off about that and cleaned the keyboard outside. During the summer 2002 that time I found that there are something distrusting inside between the button keys, so I decided to take all off the keys (including num keys) and it was totally distrusting that I can see: lots of hair, crumbs and dust. I cleaned by using Q-Tip and alcoholic to clean it all white. (You might see the clean on left QWERTY keys and non-clean on right num keys.)

Now Forward to today and I now have Powerbook G4. I remember during my college times in RIT, my friend and I discussed about security and caring the Powerbook G4 keeps like new and longevity, he showed me the neat item: iSkin ProTouch PB. I tried this, and surprising, it feels different and somewhat comfortable by using this iSkin item on PowerBook. I ordered this for $19.99 last December 2004, and I never had problems by typing on QWERTY keys on Powerbook G4 today. I'm very happy with this for caring Powerbook.

However, let me say to you again: I love Flickr. They got RSS feed, tags, groups, friendly upload stuff (such as Win XP and email) and awesome photo management tools slideshow, notes and Organizr [?].

Congras to Flickr, it gets big yahoo-ing!

Note: this picture and laptop does not belong to me.

I am addicted to Flickr now. Because of, I always love to see unique pictures from strangers, even I selected those into my favorite list. Also, I like to talk about interesting topic, Tag. Tag is like a keyword or category label to tags in your photos. Tags helps me to find photos which have something in common. Here are the interesting tags you might find:

Cat & dog - will keep you looking at pictures forever, they do make your heart melt.

Skulls - Scary. Death.

Underwater - lots of blues in the water.

Lightning - Hardest way to get timing perfect to capture the lightning.

Kiss - It's charmful and funny to see mammals (include humans) kissing.

Carnivorous - collection of plant eater.

1945 - Set of old pictures during World War II.

Octopus - Lots of different color, sizes of octopus. And, silly plush also.

Interesting enough? There are many cool tags you can take a look: twisted has relatively many good snaps, take a wild ride on jackalope, Poke things with a stick, motion and blur all you can see, Opss, what the picture went wrong, it's natural to see everybody's pee, take a delicious to watch cockroaches. And finally, just out of curiously, deaf can do the photos.

Now, you're getting tired to see much cool tags around in Flickr?

I found the cool site, the ultimate Flickr tools collection. I spend countless hours of visiting in every site and find some unique and unusal stuff that I could play around with Flickr tools. Take a look awesome and impressive image below:

In fall of 2003, there was old social networking website, Ringo. Ringo has exploded so fast for deaf community to connect each other into the circle of friends. In early of 2004, Ringo has acquired to Tickle, everything has changed, lost several information from users profile and too complicated user interface. Several users of the Deaf have lost motivation with this.

From now in year 2005, I would like to see deaf social networking bring back to life, just like what Ringo did. I chose Flickr, pronounced click the camera to capture the photos in social networking. Flickr is a digital photo sharing website and web services suite, developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver, Canada company founded in 2002 and acquired by Yahoo in spring 2005. Flickr is widely most popular photo tools for bloggers to use web services on their own websites. Like Ringo and Tickle, Flickr joins the social networking with pictures and moblogging. I chose to love the pictures from friends to post in Internet and see their photos rather than sending email attachment in email body and easily forgotten to look back in email attachment later.

I know everyone love the pictures. I only have few deaf friends in my Flickr contacts, and they don't just post much of their photos in there. There are few members - 13 members in Flickr groups: Deaf. I don't understand why deaf are not interested having free account of Flickr to post their photos, connect circle of friends and share the photos? Or does they ignore Flickr?

If you take several pictures from digital camera, including your social friends, they would like to have pictures, and asking to send email attachment to individual friend. It eaten my time much to do these. I decide to post pictures in Flickr, and just send web address to friends to go there and have their time to view my Flickr photo sites any time, any place. Save my time and my life easier than having email and photo thing.

Infinite Flickr. I am one of them. My Infinite Flickr ticket number is 83.

Oh, and don't miss the incredible movie created by monkiineko (a.k.a. monkey cat), the movie animates the speed journey through photographs in Flickr group.

Via FlickrBlog.

UPDATE: 12 hours later today, two new photos are coming in Infinite Flickr pool after me and you can find me inside the photos.

 

Today the active meeting Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf passed the vote that they are paying the one-year subscription account to Flickr, the photo social network. It seems interesting to me because it could be first deaf organization/club to have an account of Flickr.

The reason is because of unlimited size of photos, unlimited bandwidth, privacy settings and the most important, ease to use. It sound too good to have advantage of that, PAD can have back-up photos to storage in Flickr server rather than worrying to get lost, limited number of photos and sizes.

Since I moved manual-built pictures from DPHH website into Flickr few months ago, I put DPHH as free one-year subscription until it expires July 2006. I resigned DPHH committee this month for good, so I am wondering myself: who's going to take responsible with DPHH Flickr? If it is active, and it's going to be interesting to see DPHH and PAD to have an competition over Flickr..

Flickr is one of best social photo sharing networking, no argument. I always have a dream for long time that I would like to see more and more Deaf people in Flickr, as I discussed in my previous entry #719. It's going to be much fun for everybody if my dream comes true.

This picture is what you are seeing above is not related to mine or friends'. It is someone's photoblog in Flickr, linked in my favorite pictures here listed such as precious, geeky, emotion, nudity (work-safe), energetic and humorous. Definitely worth a look.

Pictures of 2005

I also posted past three top 25 pictures of the year (2002-2004) in previous entry. Enjoy!

I tried out my first time (pah!) to order the prints through Yahoo / Flickr site.

Around 1 a.m. last night, I went Flickr's PAD Deaf Club photos page, selected 17 photos to order the prints through Target location nearby my home. The receipt from Flickr site said it cost around $5 dollars (includes service cost).

I went Target store today with my proof printed receipt, and I never expected that Target also offer $1.40 off (and no service cost??) for orders and price difference, and the final sale is $1.05.

$1.05 for seventeen printed pictures! Sweet.

I participated the group photo sharing site, 24 hours of Flickr for only one day on Saturday, May 5th 2007, in favor of taking my photo for Deaf culture or on Deaf places.

Here is brief description about 24 hours of Flickr:

To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in 24 Hours of Flickr, a day-long global photo project. On May 5 2007......only submit one (1) photo take.......event will be commemorated by a companion 24 Hours of Flickr book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group. Additionally, the group's photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer.

By adding your [our] photo to this group, you understand that it may be selected for publication in the 24 Hours of Flickr commemorative book and/or displayed at a Flickr-sponsored event this summer.

I would feel great and proud myself if, if, if, IF my photo publish into the book. My old WPSD alumni and a friend, MoneyLeo13 also participated in this group.

By the anyway, Flickr blog made an announcement today: new version/look of slideshow along with my personal favorite Flickr photos around the globe. For Windows, press F11 button on your keyboard on web browser for full beauty view of slideshow.

W00t! Flickr is fun to view photos. Especially the numbers. Yesterday Flickr announced the stats are now available for your photos - only to Pro account users who paid $25 per year for having a unlimited photos and huge amount of bandwidth. The data includes the traditional stats, such as most views, search engine referrers, breakdown of photo stats including count of your public photos, geotagging, interestingness, most favorites/comments and what can I say more?

I took my responsibility running the Pittsburgh Association of the Deaf (PAD) deaf clubhouse website, powered with WordPress (WP), along with few plug-ins helps to beef up the cool features such as event calendar and gallery.

Last October 2007, I installed FAlbum, a WP plugin for Flickr photo to feed Flickr photos directly into PAD website to display the photos.

Until last week, I discovered 'Slickr Gallery', the most slick AJAX Flickr plugin for WP, and I began experimenting with this in PAD website just for fun. Here it is - the plugin looks so incredible and web-rich, make you feel more mood and exictment level to navigate the photos!

I have notice the differences between WP Flickr plugin: FAlbum and Slickr, such as advantages and disadvantages:
- Slickr does not provide specific URI address for a photo set page and individual photo page. FAlbum does.
- FAlbum supports EXIF data, tags, Flickr notes, download photo sizes what Slickr does not have.
- Slickr is currently active in development; FAlbum is somewhat slow in development
- FAlbum have several AJAX errors, and somewhat poor style pages
- Slickr is easy to install and configure in WP to administrate, FAlbum is somewhat little complicated
- FAlbum needs some with web coding knowledge to modify and fix in back-end

Well, I decide to keep both WP Flickr plugins, to separate the old version and web-rich version in front-end PAD website for user-friendly who wants to download the photos in old version page, and savvy-user enjoy their time to surf web-rich version.

Flickr finally launched the video feature, and I began playing around with this; take a comparison between Flickr Video and YouTube:

This video is original 320x240 video resolution with 30 frame per second, What do you think the quality of video?

If you're member of Flickr account, you're in the luck to have a upload videos with limit of 150 MB or 90 seconds. It is just beginning...