PUBLIC MARKS from decembre with tags flickr & freeware

John's Background Switcher periodically changes your Windows background from pictures of your choosing on your PC, from Flickr or a host of other places. You choose the search criteria, what effects you'd like, how often you want your background to change and leave it to it! You add as many pictures sets from as many different places you like to the list and decide how you want them shown. Additional fine-tuning options are available from the ‘More Settings’ dialog where you can tweak till you heart’s content. Maybe you want a 3-month calendar on your desktop, your backgrounds always to be sepia or a cork noticeboard look – whatever you want is probably there.

Jing® is a computer service that lets you capture basic video, animation, and still images, and share them on the web. To upload images captured with Jing to Flickr you need to do two things. First, create a Flickr account. Next, create a Flickr button in Jing and then authorize Jing to use Flickr.

Backup Your Full Flickr Account – 13 Free Apps for Win,MAC,Lin by Hiroshi on 19-08-2009 Flickr is the most popular, free and professional photo management, hosting and sharing application service. Many of us upload their favorite photos collection directly from our hard drives. So most of us have got backups locally in our PC already. But if hard disk crashes or you upload photos at flickr using mobile phone then you may not have backups of your data. In this case following utilities and methods are very useful.

The Lossless JPEG Toolbox de Michael Lee propose de nouveaux outils gratuits (pour Windows seulement, désolé) parmi lesquels on peut noter: * Lossless Logo pour ajouter un logo à une ou plusieurs images * GPSStamper pour insérer sur une image les coordonnées GPS, la localisation, la description IPTC, etc. * MetadataMirror pour afficher un ensemble complet de métadonnées embarquées dans une ou plusieurs images (métadonnées Exif, IPTC, XMP, profil ICC, etc.). Le programme est basé sur l'excellent ExifTool de Phil Harvey (télécharger la dernière version et la remplacer dans le dossier d'installation de MetadataMirror). Il ne fait rien de plus qu'ExifTool, mais si vous n'aimez pas trop les lignes de commandes ce programme est pour vous...

It displays your local folders and your flickr sets and it can establish synchronization rules between them. This way you can manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr.

(scaling, rotating, cropping, annotation, etc.) to sophisticated effects : (adding background textures, applying color adjustments, distortion and warping, blurring and sharpening), etc.. It also includes Flickr and Twitter uploading support,

Adds effects to your digital photos through a slick, simple-to-use interface. The program provides an impressive range of effects and can upload the results to photo-sharing site Flickr

Easy to apply effects and improvements to all your digital images. Capture from your webcam, take screenshots, create professional looking text, Phantasmagoria has it all! With dozens of effects, filters and improvements. Upload to Flickr

Flickr + In The Mod Adobe Illustrator CS3 plug-in. More info on the free plug-in here

if you want a more-developed desktop Flickr app, check out PowerSnap (review). It is Flash-based, and its animation is not as smooth as Nostalgia's, but it handles Flickr's tags a bit more gracefully and works with photos on your hard drive as well.

Based on the proof of concept provided by Tabblo and using the nice flickj api, picasa2flickr provides a kind of plugin to picasa that allows users to export their photos to flickr. The mechanism: 1. Using a custom "BlogThis" Button, picasa posts XML data