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Flickr has been a favorite among photo sharing enthusiasts. It was the little photo sharing site that could and it keeps on going. It has also spawned a number of innovative tools, add-ons and apps. One of the latest of these Flickr toys is called Flexplore. Flexpore offers a new way for exploring Flickr photos. Sure there are hundreds of thousands, even millions of photos to find on Flickr and there’s even a search, but it’s often hard find things that match your tastes. This is where Flexplore excels. Simply enter a Flickr username, url or NSID, and Flexplore will analyze your favorites,...  read more
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PicArtia will get your creative juices flowing. Remember those posters of your favorite celeb made up of hundreds of thousands of tiny little pictures of that celeb? The digital mosaic picture was quite the fad on par with the likes of Magic Eye and America Online. Now there’s an outpour of technology that allows you to create your own photo mosaics. Among them is PicArtia. PicArtia is a web-based application It requires no downloading or installation. Getting started is easy. Just click on the Start Button. PicArtia lets you use pics from your flickr or PhotoBucket account; pics from your ... read more
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Are you tired of looking at the desktop photo of your nephew that you took two years ago? Does your screensaver of your last trip to Mexico seem like a million years ago? Chirpscreen from Chirp updates your desktop and screensaver with photos of your friends from facebook, Twitter, and flickr. Alternatively, you can display photos of celebrities, cities or other public photos from Flickr. Finally, Chirp allows you to engage in “window shopping” by displaying items from eBay and other online shopping websites. Chirp works on both Windows and Mac, although the Mac version supports only ... read more
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Twixxer.com is a new service that allows Twitter users to move beyond the normal text-only constraints of sending Twitter updates. Instead of simply providing a text link to the digital media you’d like to share, you can use Twixxer to send a photo thumbnail or a video player directly to your buddies’ Twitter pages. The service is comprised of a browser add-on (Firefox only) and a web service, and uses the Greasemonkey extension. Users upload photos, which Twixxer hosts for free, and the program generates a short URL to include in your tweet. The URL links to the original version of your p... read more
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Compfight.com is a powerful new photo search engine that works with the Flickr API. You can use Compfight for personal or commercial purposes, and perform various types of searches, making it a very flexible tool useful to a wide range of users. The basic search is a keyword search that will look through Flickr tags and return up to hundreds of photos tagged with your keyword. If your results are weak, you can change to an ‘all text’ search that will also hunt through photo titles and descriptions to find your keyword. Click on any thumbnail result and you’ll be brought to the photo’s ... read more
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Are you a pet lover? If you are PetCharts is a great site for web content on dogs and cats. Purina pet food has made a site where anyone can look through great content of dogs and cats. The site is divided into three sections: photos, videos, and written content. Videos and photos are selected from YouTube and flickr of dogs and cats. You can choose to look at just cats, just dogs or both at the same time. You can choose to look at the content: submitted that day, content over the past 7 days, 30 days, or all time. PetCharts gives users new popular pet content to browse through. You can vote f... read more
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How many photo albums do you have? If you are like the majority of people you have many. Most photo management applications let you store and visualize your albums in a list format. You can open each album separately and if you want to browse through all of your albums you can scroll down to see all of your photos. Twins Visions provides a 3D solution for photo management. Instead of scrolling down your never ending list of albums you can view your albums in 3D. Twins Visions provides a variety of 3D formats for viewing your albums such as: a 3D slide show, a concave format, a rolodex format, ... read more
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Sometimes life gets too busy to post in your blog or communicate with your friends. Lifestream.fm gives your friends a way to see what you have been doing online. Lifestream.fm is an aggregator that shows your friends what you have been doing by updating in real time all of your activities on a vast array of applications including: Flickr, Twitter, Last.FM, Digg, del.icio.us, YouTube, Xbox Love, and of course the LifeStream blog. If you add photos on Flickr your friends can go to Lifestream.fm click on your profile and see the photos you added. If you post a message on Twitter Lifestream.fm ... read more
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Game Neverending, the massively multiplayer online game from Ludicorp aka the Flickr group has been resurrected. Unlike your usual MMOG fare, Game Neverending is premised on lightheartedness and humor, in other words, you really can’t win. No bloodshed, no gore, no warfare—no wonder it was shuffled off to the dead pool. However, in its new incarnation brings back this joviality allowing players to craft their object manipulation skills and socialize, something we’re used to in this 2.0 age. Objects can be combined to create other objects; they can be manipulated just to see what happ... read more
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Coordinatr.com is an event planing application that gives you the tools to easily inform all of your friends and family about social gatherings. To begin, register with the site. Once you register and enter the site your homepage is your events page where all of your upcoming and recently finished events appear. Creating an event is easy just include the important information such as time and location. You can import all of your contacts from your email account. Select the friends you want to to include. You can also make groups of friends so you can easily contact them all at once, instead of... read more
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Are you excited about your wedding but you can’t seem to see yourself in the virginal puffy princess wedding gown with the 25 bridesmaids in matching teal dresses? Your wedding is your big day, it is about you and no one is forcing you to have the traditional wedding with the white doves and towering wedding cake. OffBeatBride.com is a site that offers a community of brides who want a wedding that represents who they are and really is true to the spirit of a wedding which is celebrating the union of a couple with friends and family. At OffBeatBride.com there is advice and blogs from women wh... read more
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Blackr was developed to allow people to see the best quality photos without anything else while on Flickr. Blackr is a bookmarklet that you put into your browsers bookmarks bar and then when you are looking at a photo on Flickr you can click on the bookmarklet for the best photo experience. Blackr removes all of the features, comments, links, thumbnails, icons and animated awards and replaces them with a nice black background. So, with Blackr, you can take advantage of all the great features offered by Flickr and view your photos in an uncluttered environment. So, Blackr is nothing revoluti... read more
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