It’s been a while since I’ve participated in a Photo Friday challenge. This week’s challenge was “The Good Life.” I was looking through some of my photos to see if I had something that captured the essence of the theme, and I’m happy to report that life is good! And while this might bend the “rules” of the challenge, I submit to you the following collage.
Here’s to the good life!
I recently ran across a couple of Flickr groups devoted to iPhone wallpapers, and decided to try my hand at it. The proper size for an iPhone wallpaper is 320×480, portrait orientation. And just for kicks, I used Flickr’s (relatively) new built-in editor to crop and resize the images. Click the images below for the full-size version, then right-click to download.
I’ve tagged my wallpapers, so to see them all, just click here.
If you’ve got an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you can download your fave wallpaper images to a folder, then simply sync that folder to your iPhone using iTunes. Pretty sweet, no?
I’m still trying to decide whether to jailbreak my iPhone or not. There is a very easy method if you’re running the 1.1.1 firmware, but I’ve already upgraded to 1.1.2. Should I downgrade to 1.1.1, just to jailbreak my iPhone?
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This week’s Photo Friday theme is Sunrise. This particular sunrise was captured in Laguna Niguel on my way to work during the recent brush fires in Southern California.
As you can see, I’m a sucker for sunrises.
I will admit, I like Flickr a lot. I like the convenience, the tagging and the social nature of the comments. My enthusiasm for Flickr has rubbed off on a number of you, too.
But one of the things that has always been frustrating was the inability to upload large numbers of photos in a batch. That changed a few months ago when Flickr introduced their new Flash-based upload page, but I still prefer Flickr Uploadr. This handy desktop application let’s you drag-and-drop as many photos as you like and send them all en masse. For anyone sharing large number of files, the Uploadr is invaluable.
The current version of the Flickr Uploadr 2.5 is great, but it’s not without limitations. It let’s you edit titles and descriptions, but only after uploading, which isn’t really the best situation.
Fortunately, the new Flickr Uploadr 3.0 beta fixes those limitations. Now you can upload in batches, and still edit titles, descriptions and most of the other editable fields associated with a photo — all before you upload.
The new Flickr Uploadr is available for both Windows and OSX. I downloaded the Windows version on my XP machine, and gave it a try. In my initial tests, everything worked flawlessly. It is beta software, so it’s likely to have some bugs still, but if you’re a Flickr fan, give it a try!
For a more detailed review, check out Christina Warren’s notes over at Download Squad.
One other quick note for Flickr fans: be sure to check out BigHugeLabs Flickr DNA webapp. It’s fun!
This week’s Photo Friday challenge is gray. The easy way out would be a grayscale image, but I like this one which I took from the parking lot of Fluor’s San Francisco offices overlooking Oyster Bay. The photo is unretouched.
It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the USA. Which mean a long weekend and a chance to go to the beach, lie by the pool, drink your favorite cold beverage… or work on your websites (as I am).
Still, you might find yourself looking for a distraction. If you’re a Flickr fan, look no further than BigHugeLabs’ Name that Contact. It’s only really fun if you’ve got at least a couple dozen contacts, but if you do, it’s extremely addictive and entertaining.
You’ve been warned.
