10 More Flickr Hacks

12/20/2006

10 More Flickr Hacks

One of my most popular posts is 10 Flickr Hacks. Here are 10 more Flickr Hacks that you’ll find just as useful.

1) Flickr Mashup: Create a Flickr music video using PhotoStory 3 or iPhoto. Putting a slide show to music is easy and can really help get your point across.

After hunting for Flickr swag online, I realized Flickr Fanatics make me look like a hater in comparison. To shine a light on these passionate consumers, I created a video tribute and posted it to YouTube (Music via Mashuptown).

2) Tell A Six Word Story: A Story in Six Words is a Flickr Group based on a challenge to Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. His answer was "For sale: baby shoes, never used." Hone your writing and photography skills and submit some of your stories.

3) Give the Gift of Flickr: Turn your photos into a perfect-bound book or a poster for the perfect gift. QOOP offers several ways to cost-effectively turn pictures into presents.

4) Get Published: The San Francisco Chronicle’s Flickr Pickr publishes an image each week in its print and offline editions. Just tag your images SFChronicle 96Hrs to be considered.

5) Hang Wallpapr: Serve up as many as 100 wallpaper-sized Flickr images at once to give your desktop background a new look.

6) fd’s Flickr Toys: fd's Flickr Toys turn your Flickr account into a production studio.”Warholize” any image (gnome kidding). Create a motivational poster—or not so much. Download a Flickr Profile Widget to show off your Flickr stats. fd has nearly 30 toys to play with, showing the potential of Flickr’s api.

7) Serve up Sets on Site: Pictobrowser serves up photo sets using a piece of easily-generated code you can paste into a blog post or web site.

8) Easy Image Search: Flickr Leech makes finding the perfect image fast work by serving up 200 image results at once. “Flickr Leech: Because Paging Sucks.”

9) Search & Associate: The Flickr Related Tag Browser serves up pictures in the middle of a tag cloud. This helps you find photos associated with your search which can be very helpful.

10) Flickr Swag: The last tip is a plea for Flickr Swag. I know it’s out there. I’m interested in stickers or pins to add to the collection. Show me the love!