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Fluidr – elegant viewing of Flickr pics

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Not new but still remarkable what one can do with the Flickr-API. Fluidr presents a nice and elegant way of looking at pictures which reside at Flickr. Designed as a private tool to present his pictures to friends and his family Sidath Senanayake managed to bring a new viepoint to exploring and watching.

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

Graceful visual overflow

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As a photography enthusiast this tool comes pretty handy. Flickr Leech uses the Flickr API to provide us with an overwhelming number of thumbs (see pic). Providing 200 thumbnails of a specific date or tag it’s great for the inspirational browsing when one is procrastinating in contrast to the 24 thumbs you get from Flickr. At least it is for me. It’s similar to the interestingness feature of Flickr but not exactly the same because it pulls “all” of the pictures (200) defined by you: Interestingness, By Username, By User ID, Favorites, By Photoset, Group Pool or your defined search. So you are able to get a more “global” view of the photostream of a certain person, group or youself.

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…

Using Pixelpost as my Photoblog Software

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PixelpostAfter months of experimenting I got back to where I started from: Pixelpost. Pixelpost is a php-driven free software to present pictures fast, clean and easy to install. If your server or host meets the requirements (PHP 4.3 or greater (w/ GD-lib) & MySQL 3.23.58 or greater) you are able to set up this open-source gem in no time. It’s a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible photoblog application.

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’):

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

33+ Icon Resources For Commercial & Personal Use

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Due to the big success of my icon-list in September I decided to look for more advantageous links for you. Here are the most interesting icon resources. You can use these sets both for commercial and private projects (as they say in their disclosures) – but to be on the safe side: check their license agreements again. Did you stumble upon a site which offers icons for commercial and private use not listed here? Feel free to publish it in your comment. After checking it will be incorporated with the next update.

If you like this list I would be happy if you share with your friends or digg this article.

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25+ Free Icon Resources For Commercial And Private Use

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I’m catching up… The list is growing constantly. Here are the most interesting icon resources. You can use these sets both for commercial and private projects (as they say in their disclosures) – but to be on the safe side: check the license agreement again. This list is growing constantly – so drop by again soon. Please comment if you found more resources which are free for both commercial & private use. The list is also growing thanks to AmpleSanity, a friend of IconBuffet. Continue reading →

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Flickr slideshow for blogs

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123flickr.com provides a nice solution to show your flickr photosets as a diashow in your website. Just type the photoset-id in the form (last combination of numbers showing in the link when you select a set of your pictures) and receive the code to embed in your site. Sad but perhaps planned for future development: only the image title shows up on hover action.

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.

A new option for Designers

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Being more the visual and not the bracket-dot-hyphen-ampersand-guy gives me headaches from time to time. Following the rising need of customers to alter their content ‘personally’ by setting up, customizing or mashing up large open source CMS like Joomla! or typo3 is time-consuming and not funny. These systems have a huge overhead of functions which my clients do not use – but I have to adjust most of the time (â€?Yes, please. Perhaps we will use it later…â€?). So I was pleased to follow the invite to review on a new content management system called “Light content management systemâ€?.

Light is a web-based content management system on a hosted basis that specifically addresses designers and agencies to provide their self-branded design and CMS to their clients. Signing up takes about 5 minutes and gives you a free account for testing and nibbling around the system. Continue reading →

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Icon resources updated

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I’m catching up… Here are the most interesting icon resources. You can use these sets both for commercial and private projects (as they say in their disclosures) – but to be on the safe side: check the license agreement again. This list is growing constantly – so drop by again soon. Please comment if you found more resources which are free for both commercial & private use.

  • Iconbuffet – the community site with a lot of very creative icon sets (101 free sets now and growing every week) – my first visit!
  • Silk Set – the famous and ubiquitously used set from Marc James is still one of the best (over 700 icons).
  • Mint Set same author, different set- just marvellous.
  • Tango Project – a huge resource for beautiful icons – for almost anything you can think of.
  • The Iconmaster – artistic and fun.Take a look especially at Mondrian!
  • The Notebook iconset from Manuela Hoffmann is a true hit.Very special!
  • Toolbar Icons from Matt Ball.Highly recommendable.
  • Everaldo Coelho produced a beautiful KDE Crystal Clear Set.Wonderful, not only for KDE…
  • My fellow countrymen, the widely known Bartelme shares a beauiful shopping cart icon with the world.
  • Deziner Folio delivered the free Aqua Gloss Set for private and commercial projects.
  • Web 2.0 Buttons 3D-style you’ll find on Utom Box for free download and usage.
  • Liquidicity gives you 165 free to use vector icons – so you can alter them in Illustrator for your needs – handy!
  • The guys from Turbomilk give away some very nice & funny icons (just to mention them if you use it in public)
  • InterfaceLift provides the fanatic with some nice icons (searchable for platform and other parameters)
  • Sweetie is a nifty and as the name suggests sweet set of 182 icons in the base set and 37 icons in the web-communication set.
  • Iconshock is the right place for all Vista icon freaks. Sign up for free and exchange with your buddies. You can use them in commercial and private projects.
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