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Buy Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online (Hacks) by Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner
| | List Price: | $24.99 | | Price: | $18.24 | | You Save: | $6.75 (27%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 646801 | | Studio: | O'Reilly Media, Inc. | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 364 | | Publication Date: | February 21, 2006 | | Publisher: | O'Reilly Media, Inc. |
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Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface. Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what's possible. Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to: - Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone
- Mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes
- Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too
- Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver
- Geotag your photos and map your contacts
- Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet
- Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags
- Build a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photos
- Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS
- Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications
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Great!, But you don't need the book.... 
Granted, the book is pretty good. But why? All the information is readily available in the Flickr help, Flickr forums, or just performing a google search. Not to mention, by the time the book arrives, there will be newer methods/ techniques. I love Flickr, but the point is having your 'visuals' online- information on Flickr is more dynamic online too.
December 06, 2007 | |
Great Flickr Reference 
'Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online' by Paul Bausch is a great guide for anyone that likes to share photos online and uses or plans to use the incredible web app Flickr. 50 Hacks/Tips await you in this book, and I'll highlight some of my favorite hacks here:
07. Feed Your Latest Photos to Your Web Site
08. Make a Photo Gallery in 30 Seconds or Less
11. Play with Tags
23. View Flickr Photos on TiVo
33. Download a List of Photos
42. Build a Custom Upload Script
44. Find the Dominant Color of an Image
50. Make a Slideshow
If you enjoy working with photos and want to get more out of your experience, start using Flickr and learning from this guide... FUN awaits you!!
***** RECOMMENDED
April 20, 2007 | |
get slickr flickr quickr 
Flickr is not just a photo sharing site. It's a community, a toolset and maybe it's a way of life. You can post images from Flickr to your blog or other web site. You can upload images via e-mail or direct from your mobile phone. You can swap, share, geo-tag (add location data) and creative commons copyright your photos, screen shots and digital artwork. Think of Flickr as your personal image management centre.
This book provides an "open sesame" to this Aladdin's cave.. in one 'easy to read' volume. It delivers both an overview of the vast range of Flickr uses as well as detailed recipes, including code, on 'how to'.
The code samplets might just deter some less technical book shop browsers from buying. That's a shame, as even those with no intention of ever writing any Perl or PHP or otherwise accessing the Flickr API will find more than enough to interest them.
This single volume overview helps 'fast track' your Flickrability, giving you a short cut down the learning curve. That's what "hacks", and the whole wonderful O'Reilly Hacks series, are all about.
The exposition of the variety of these Flickr apps actually inspires you to think outside the frame and conjure up your own Flickr apps.
It's got me using my camera phone shopping and in household and automobile maintenance. See another great O'Reilly book in your local book shop but want to compare prices with another store? Click the book's image and check later. We needed oven repairs but couldn't tell the model, so click and Flickr, forward the URL to the supplier's tech department for advice. There's a crack in the retaining wall. Click it, date it, check back later to see if it's getting worse. Not all these uses are flickr apps, of course, but they show you how the 'new' technologies of cameras, camera phones, and the web work together. And Flickr has emerged as a key part of the story. They are delivering new "synergies" for everyday life.
I've been thinking of using my camera phone and Flickr to create a web based inventory for my book, CD and DVD library. Click and flickr avoids lots of typing. Sounds good to me. Why not a Flickr based 'business card' database? It would be shareable and accessible, for both upload and view, from multiple platforms. And you can control user access fairly easily. And the relatively small size of camera phone images is an advantage. It makes uploads easier. The Flickr hacks book doesn't tell you how to do these two specifically, but it does provide the tool kit.
"Flickr Hacks" gives us a few hints at the life story of Flickr itself. It tells us how Flickr began life as multi-user on-line game. It would be great to get more background of this kind. I suppose that will have to wait for another book. Hopefully we'll see "the Flickr Story" one of these days.
June 21, 2006 | |
Incredible possibilities when using Flickr...
Flickr is one of those web sites that has gone in directions I don't think anyone ever imagined it would go. What started out as simple photo-sharing is now a full-featured site with a programming API. Many of these are covered and explored in the book Flickr Hacks - Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online by Paul Bausch & Jim Bumgardner.
Contents: Sharing Photos; Tagging Photos; Viewing Photos; Community; Maintenance; API Basics; Custom Applications; Index
At the core, Flickr is a site to share pictures online with friends, family, or anyone else you open your pictures to. And pretty much, that's all I've used it for. I don't take a lot of pictures, but the ones I have taken that relate to shared experiences (like Lotusphere) have made it up there. In fact, someone sponsored me for a professional Flickr account (thank you!), but it's about ready to expire. I wasn't planning on renewing it at that level, but I may have to reconsider after reading this book. The book is about the size of a normal Hacks title, but there's only 50 hacks in here. As you can imagine, each one goes into much more detail than normal. And there *is* some fun stuff in here. If you have a little background in PHP or Perl, you can really get crazy, too. For instance, I didn't know you could email photos to your Flickr account. Hack #6 shows how that works, and it explains how Flickr can often serve as a real-time look into breaking events such as the London train bombing. People were using their cell phones to take pictures and then mailing them in to the Flickr account. Or for fun stuff, you can use the Flickr API to build routines to create "ransom note" messages (a different picture for each letter, "glued" together into sentences) in hack #47. Hack #48 shows you how to take one of your photos and create a "slider puzzle" out of it. And in between those two ranges you'll find a number of things that will cause you, like they did me, to say "Flickr can do that?"...
If you use Flickr and actively load photos out there, this will be a "must read" book to enhance and expand your Flickr experience. Even if you're just a casual user like me, you'll have your eyes opened to some new possibilities. Now where was that Flickr renewal email?
May 07, 2006 | |
Bakari Chavanu MyMac.com Review
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Flickr has to be the best and most popular photo sharing website on the planet, without doubt. Over the past year since I've been a member and wrote an article for MyMac on this number one shutterbug community. I've amassed a couple of dozen bookmarks and RSS feeds based Flickr and Flickr related websites. Some include RSS feeds to my favorite photographers, others include sites that help me do fun and cool things with my photos, and others are just cool ways to navigate Flickr's immense collection of images. In fact, for the last six months, my Safari homepage is a Random Photo Browser that delivers me a page of fresh photos every time I open Safari.
If you're new to Flickr or want to get more out of it, Flickr Hacks covers just about everything there is know about storing, sorting, and sharing your photos as a Flickr member. What has taken me months to learn and collect in my Flickr bookmark folder, you can learn in about a weekend. One of the appeals of O'Reilly's series of hack books is that they give you the tools to expand and deepen your experience and use of popular sites like Amazon, Ebay, and Google.
For those new to Flickr, Flickr Hacks introduces you to the basics of setting up an account, uploading your photos to the site, sharing your images, tagging them, joining Flickr pools, and building your own Flickr screensaver and random desktop backgrounds.
The book explains several ways to upload your photos to your Flickr homepage. You can do it through the site itself, you can download a batch loader or your can use two of my favorite apps developed by Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow. He's built a plug-in uploader for iPhoto and has just released, probably as this book was going to to press, an a Tiger Automator action that enables you to upload a selected image file directly to your Flickr homepage. With this action, you don't have to open an application, fill in a box, or even convert the size of your selected image. Just control click and upload. Simple, easy, and fast.
For us advance Flickr members, Flickr Hacks reveals what is called the API underpinnings of the site. According to the authors, API is an "incredible application program interface (API), which lets you interact with Flickr in unique and powerful ways." Pages and pages of various codes and command line language might scare off many potential readers of this book. Even a title with the word "hacks" might either excite the loins of young emerging computer programers or make novice computer users scared they're doing something illegal. But the latter is not the case. If you carefully read the instructions for the 50 different hacks explained in this book, you can possibly have more fun and save more time navigating Flickr itself.
Of course, the book gives a link to a ZIP archive file of all the individual codes and scripts discussed in the book already saved as text files. As of this writing, the webpage for this link is not posted, but I'm sure that will be remedied very soon.
Some of the more advanced hacks in this books don't seem worth the trouble for me personally, but many others I plan to give a try. I would like for example to customize my Flickr badge for my blog site, create contact sheets of my favorite Flickr photos, capture all the comments I've made on the photos of other Flickr members. The advance hacks explained in this book are not essential to exploring the site, but if you're interested in learning more about the underpinnings of web programming, learning how to run these programmatic hacks on OS X's Terminal (Unix) command line or as CGI or PHP scripts on your web site or server, it wouldn't be a waste of time.
There are other advanced hacks about building a Flickr Color picker, modifying the metadata of your posted photos, tracking the favorite photos of your Flickr contacts, using Google Map to locate other Flickr members, or finding which Flickr members might be listed in your Address Book.
Many hacks in the book are crossed referenced so that after you've signed up as a Flickr member, you can basically start with any hack you like. Some hacks are merely just links to fun things you can do with your and other Flickr member's photos. For example, Hack #46 references FD's Flickr Toys which is a great collection of online apps that will convert your Flickr images into calendar pages, posters, mock magazine covers, slide shows, and much more. Numerous Flickr pools have been created to showcase cool photo projects based on these fun online tools.
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