No distraction, easy to navigate and a nice slideshow brings you the perfect experience if your are an afficionado of photography (like I am). Just use the droplets to insert the “view in black” feature to your pictures directly in Flickr, sort your pictures by sets, tags or favs. There are numerous possibilities to enjoy the inspirational ride. The function I like most: spress the spacebar to start a sort of diashow where only one pic is shown with all its properties.

And here’s my Fluidr-stream: http://www.fluidr.com/photos/roberthauk

Programmed by photographer Andrew Hauser Flickr Leech gets more features soon. Version 2 is soon to become public beta so if you like this app be sure to apply by filling out a short form on this site or even consider a small donation…

Edit: Because of the enormous popularity his server loads exceeded beyond pain and he decided to code his nice idea into an air applet – now you are able to bring Flickr Leech to your Desktop. With his new Air-Application you can browse all your searches within a tiny, nice app…

And it seems that the community is active again – you find quite nifty and useful addons: from Ajax driven ratings to powerful tagging.

Here are some Photoblogs which are using Pixelpost (and you’ll see the different approaches and possibilities of ‘tweaking’):

• My Photoblog (of course)
• Lumières
• Justin Gaynor
• Laurent Batailley
• ps mrk (a russian artist)
• Greyscalegorilla
• One Eye Photoblog

If you feel I left an essential Photoblog unmentioned (almost sure about that) please comment.

Due to heavy traffic it sometimes can take a while to load but it might be a fun thing for aficionados to try out. See here my try with a set from Lower Austria.

After trying every possible keyboard combination the Apple Gods gave us, after trying to reinstall Os X from the CD, my computer told me that there is no volume to install the OS. WTF! After 2 hours at my trusted Apple store they told me the same…

To get to the point: I had to redo all the 32 pages in a third of the time to meet the utmost deadline (negotiated with the printing company) which left me with no sleep for 36 hours and the consumption of all the coffee beans left in Austria.

So after this nemesis I had a short nap and went to the river near our home with the youngest of the horde, David. Watching him play and taking the things as they come I felt less weight on my shoulders and the stress diminished into the air. My perspective was reinstalled and I could focus on the really important things in life…

Click on thumbnails to watch him play.

I’m experimenting with the excellent pictures of my friend & partner Andrei (more photos from him on his site Finlandia). I took this opportunity to send you some summer greetings for your viewing pleasure. Click on thumbnails to enlarge.

Founded 1056, the Kuenringer originally came from Bavaria and were given three ‘hoofs’ of land in a village called “Hecimanneswisa” by King Henry III after their support in the Hungarian move. The village later became ‘Kuehnring’ near ‘Eggenburg’. The House of the Kuenringer was a very strong and wealthy one – so you can visit many ruins and castles still intact (mainly in the region of the ‘Waldviertel’ and the ‘Wachau’, both in Lower Austria).

They played an important role in the cultural development of these regions and founded e. g. the ‘Stift Zwettl’. In the 13th century they were the spearhead of the rebellion against the Babenberger Duke Friedrich II. To make a long and interesting story short: they died out in 1594…

Click on the thumbnails to get some impressions of the ruin in Arbesbach.

I am sending you a greeting. Life is way too serious to forget about beautiful things. Take a step back and look at nature. Every year we have the chance to see plants grow and blossom – providing the most amazing colours and shapes. So I decided to design this card – dedicated to you dear reader – may it cheer you up and put a smile on your face. You can download the design as a wallpaper on my German blog.