Posts Tagged ‘Flickr’
Random album cover
I usually don't like to post these "chain posts", but this one is quite funny:
- The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.
- The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title of your album.
- The third picture in Flickr's Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days will be your album cover.
- Use your graphics programme of choice to throw them together, and post the result.
My result:
Found via Jesper Laugesen (DK).
Related postsTags: album art, Flickr, Off the record, quotes, Wikipedia
Extend your way out of the Chinese government's grip on Flickr
As I've written earlier, the Chinese government is blocking access to Flickr — probably because of some pictures of the Tianmen Square being published onto Flickr.
However, help is on the way — if you're a Firefox user, that is.
According to CNET News you can get around the blockade using a Firefox extension. The extension is called "Access Flickr!" and is created by an Iranian man named Hamed Saber.
According to the article some Greasemonkey gymnastics can also do the trick.
I wonder what will happen next? Will China block access to the Mozilla and Firefox sites? I guess this just shows that you can't control the internet.
Related postsTags: Censorship, China, Flickr
China will most likely block out Flickr
The Chinese government who apparently stops at nothing in trying to keep the Chinese citizens from having any good use of the internet is now apparently disabling access to photo sharing site Flickr. The reason: Pictures from the massacre at the Tianmen Square has been published on Flickr.
This means that the German government should cut national access to Flickr, when they discovered these photos of a time and place in history much worse than Tianmen Square.
Read more:
USA Today: "Yahoo: Beijing likely blocking Flickr
Tags: Censorship, China, Flickr
Loving Flock's Flickr-ticker
Okay, until now I've just seen the Flock browser as little more than a variant of the Firefox code, but as I use Sulfur (Flock 0.8.0.99) more and more I understand why it's called a "social browser".
One of the things that I really like is the Flickr integration.
Every time Flock encounters an image hosted at Flickr it displays a menu when you place your cursor on the image. Here I can click "View Photostream in minibar" and swoosh, the top of my browser windows suddenly becomes a slideshow containing pictures from the Flickr account that is hosting the image.
If I hover one of the images in the photostream I can see the text that the Flickr user has chosen to associate with the pic. Very nice!
The other options in the Flock-image-menu are "Blog this" and "Share this via email".
Update 1:
View a screenshot of Flock viewing a Flickr photostream
(picture uploaded using Flock :-) )
Tags: Flickr, Flock, Social web