Flickr Plugins for WordPress

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I've been playing around with a couple of Flickr centric plugins for Wordpress. Falbum and Flickr Photo Album both allow you to pull in images from your Flickr account and display them on your site. When I say display, it is not just a little badge, but rather individual photos along with associated tags, comments and in the case of Flickr Photo Album, even notes.

For example on my site in the I have added links to my images using both tools. The Recent Flickr Images link pulls up my Flickr photostream using Falbum. The Photo Albums link pulls my Flickr photostream using Flickr Photo Album. Both do a nice job of pulling in your images and displaying them. The images are cached on your site and the initial look is from your site, not Flickr's. This may be of use to teachers who want to utilize Flickr for storage and sharing purposes, but worry about letting kids loose on Flickr, or if Flickr is blocked. Flickr Photo Album, while only pulling your albums, does do more incorporating Flickr ID images into their comment display, also bringing in photo notes.

You can see a few examples below:

  • Left: Falbum screenshot
  • Right: Flickr Photo Album

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One other nice feather of Flickr Photo Album is that it allows you to easily add images from Flickr to your blog posts. Clicking on an image allows you to choose a size and then the necessary html is added to your post. You can also search for images by tag from within the posting interface.

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Wii

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Wii John Blake points to a very cool hack of the Wii gaming system. This hack involves using the Wiimote (that's Wii remote) to control a Roomba. Speaking of the Wii, my kids got a Wii for Christmas from their uncle and I'm pretty impressed. This morning I played nine holes of golf, then took in a bit of batting practice. Maybe tonight I'll go bowling. I downloaded the DarwiinRemote software and will mess around with that later.

VideoEgg Screencast

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In my last post, I mentioned iShowU, the Mac OS screen recording software. Below is a link to a quick little screencast I made about VideoEgg.

VideoEgg is a video sharing and creation tool. It has some very nice features including the ability to tap into webcams and if you have a recent Mac, your iSight camera. The audio level on the screencast needs a bit of work, but I was really impressed with how well iShowu worked.

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del.icio.us: tagometer

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del.icio.us: tagometer:
del.icio.us released two new tools for display on web sites. The Tagometer Badge can be displayed in two ways. The tall badge is meant for sidebars and shows in a narrow multiline presentation the number of folks who have bookmarked your site on del.icio.us.

There is also a one line version that fits well in individual blog entry footers.

It's Snöwing on My MacBook

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Snö is the Swedish word for snow, and is a little freeware Mac application that makes snow fall over your desktop. It can be invoked as a screen saver or on top of your open applications. The preferences allow you so select types of flakes, wind speed and wind direction, flake speed and flake size.

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