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November 09, 2004
1001
There's this newish photo hosting service called Flickr, and I've come across a pretty nifty program that uses your Flickr account to get and download some of the latest pictures. It displays the thumbnails and lets you click on them to see the images full size. 1001 also displays a floating window that sits transparently atop all others. You can "flick" through those images when they get downloaded.
I'd requested the author make the floating window have an option to automatically flick through the new images for you, seeing as I'm really lazy and such. Amazingly, just days later, he added that. Thanks!
I never really thought it would be a cool program. It sounded interesting enough, but I couldn't really see how I would use it more than once or twice. I left it running in the background and pretty much became addicted instantly. There's a voyeuristic aspect to this, peeking in on other people's lives by seeing the pictures they choose to share with the world. A lot of pictures are ho-hum, but some are quite compelling. I'm fond of this one, which just flicked on my screen.
And, yes, in case you were wondering, this is the same guy who wrote ecto, which I wrote about recently.
Posted by Samer at November 9, 2004 08:31 PM
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