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You're just rubbing in the fact that you guys get the paid apps and we in the UK don't. Grr.
116 apps as of 3 Dec . . .
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Really? Bummer. We're up over 500 now.
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I downloaded it. Seems to do what it's supposed to do just fine. I like the feature that lets you use a specific tag, and display photos that show that tag as your wallpaper. It will also pull from a particular user or the iPhones wallpaper group.
Huzzah!
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Flickr Addict Lite (which is free) is now out, so we in Europe finally get to play with it. I can't actually see what it doesn't do that the full version does. Looks like a nice app.
Hope it's only pulling CC-licenced photos...
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Now I've got it set to just pull my photos with this tag, www.flickr.com/photos/jakerome/tags/prewallpaperjake/
which works nicely.
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FlickrAddict Lite only allows you to download 3 photos a day for the daily rotation, and you can only select 1 hour or 6 hour switching frequencies. The other options (available in the full app) are greyed out.
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I like FlickrAddict so much I'm trying to find a digital frame that recreates the experience.
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You need a webOS tablet!
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Thinking of getting this to serve as a flickr-enabled photo frame...
www.tacp.toshiba.com/digitalmediaframes/product.asp?model...
Only $120 at amazon.
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Hi guys,
I'm the author of Flickr Addict. I'm really glad you like it, but there's much better to come. There's a new version of both Flickr Addict and Flickr Addict Lite in review at the moment that give you a much better gallery for viewing the images. The Xmas holidays will probably delay it's approval a bit, but it should be out soon.
See my blog post about it here - shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/flickr-addict-get...
Of course, people who have existing versions get the updates for free.
Enjoy!
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Thanks for coming by Shane! The random feature will be nice, and a gallery view could even start it down the path of being a nice general purpose Flickr browser. It would be nice to have an option for switching the desktop every 15 minutes, as every 5 is quick quick! But with a random option, I'm not sure that's as important. Finally, while dopiaza's set manager can be used to help create sets, allowing tagged photos from a particular user would be nice.
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Tags from a single user is a good idea. I'll see what I can do to get it in.
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One other thing. Not sure, but I think I may be getting a memory leak running your app. I've been getting "too many cards" message a lot lately. I'd been thinking it was DrPodder causing the issue, but now I've run into this problem a couple times while running only standard apps. The only other possibility is Twee, but I've been using that for months and never had quite this problem.
Seems to have gotten much worse when I started changing the wallpaper every 5 minutes.
And thanks again.
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It's really a fun app, shane. Another feature request: it would be nice to have a few more options for how to handle landscape oriented photos-- "center" gives a square crop, which is probably my preferred compromise, but I'd also like options to rotate them or zoom in enough to fit the screen.
Thanks for reaching out to the fans :).
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jakerome, I haven't seen the memory problem myself, but I'll look into it. You say it got worse when you change the wallpaper more often? Strange, I'm simply calling the Palm service for setting a wallpaper. I hope they don't have a memory leak in that code.
Kelvin, I'm looking into enabling pan and zoom for setting wallpapers. I probably won't do rotation though, as it's a bit tricker.
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actually, now I think it was Twee notifications causing the problem. So FlickrAddict probably isn't responsible.
too bad rotation is so tricky-- I wouldn't be bothered if my pics were posted sideways since the orientation of the Pre is so flexible.
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I've been running Flickr Addict Lite for about a month now, and I really like it. I'm even considering paying for the full version when paid apps arrive in March...
Thanks to Shane for creating a fun app!
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Thanks Michael, glad you like it. It's a pity we have to wait for paid apps until March. I'd love to get my hands on Need For Speed ;-)
FYI, a new version of both Flickr Addict & Flickr Addict Lite is out now, and it's a huge improvement over the previous versions, with a much, much better image gallery, as well as a few other things.
If you've any more suggestions, please let me know.
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The new version does seem a lot slicker, thanks. I love the concept of the randomize feature, but in practice, how does it work? It seems to heavily weigh the latest 20 images in a stream or set. Any way to make it truly random, or is that a limitation of the Flickr API?
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By the way, Shane has put a handy demo/tutorial video on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ52Bhx6Rmo
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Hi Kelvin,
You're asking about the secret sauce? ;-) The Flickr api doesn't support randomness, as you'd expect. Flickr Addict simply reads in way more photo data than it needs, randomizes that array, and chooses the first X number.
E.g. if it needs 10 photos from a user, it'll pull down info on 60 or so of them, and randomly choose from those. However, if you have hundreds of photos it won't work as well, but for sets it works much better. I have to balance performance/data usage against the usefulness of the random feature. Some people have thousands of photos, and it's not feasible to download them all unfortunately.
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Thanks Shane, sounds like reason enough to buy the full version :). With the 3 images that you get in the Lite version, it's not going deep enough into the set that I want randomized, but it looks like that's resolved by buying the full version (well-deserved by the way!)
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Kelvin,
Buying the full version will definitely solve it ;-) By the way, I can't see the comments on the full version (as I'm in Europe), and can't understand why it's rated so low (2.5 right now). Could someone please let me know what people are complaining about so I can fix it for the next version?
Thanks
Shane
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A bug is affecting the reviews right now, but when I saw it before it had two reviews. One was a 0-star review from a person complaining that it didn't do anything except change the wallpaper. Probably bought the app without reading the description. I left the other review, gave it 5 stars. No idea why no else has left a review.
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Hmm, reviews like that annoy me.... I wonder what exactly he thought it should do? Perhaps he thought you could upload with it. All the same, a bit cruel.
Oh, and thanks for the 5 stars ;-)
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Yeah, I think he just looked at the title and assumed it was a full-featured Flickr app.
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I don't know if this is the place for bug reports, Shane, but I just noticed a strange quirk with the randomize feature. For both my entire stream and for a new set I just created, Flickr Addict is pulling the most recent photos, regardless of how many photos I request, despite me choosing random as my selection type. However, if I try using older sets, I will get a random selection of photos. Does this make any sense to you that newer sets are treated differently?
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I just use a tag search, and it does seem to be randomizing properly for the tag search.
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The best thing to do for bug reports is to send me an email using the Help scene. I'll look into the problem.
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Hi All,
There's a new version of Flickr Addict out, with a few bug fixes, as well as the ability to use pinch/zoom to manually size the wallpaper.
Randomizing is also improved. Now even more pseudo-random!
For the Flickr Addict Lite users, you also get a few days of the full apps features as a trial before it goes to Lite mode, so enjoy ;-)
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This sounds fantastic, I will have to try this out.
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Some more goodies for you guys - Flickr Addict v0.2.1 is out now, with the additions:
- group selection. You can now add as many Flickr Groups to download from as your like, not just PalmPreWallpapers and iPhoneWallpapers.
- Block individual photos or complete user streams. Some users complained about nsfw images coming down from the PalmPreWallpapers group, so this should solve that problem.
Enjoy!
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I see that our favourite Irish developer has a new app:
InstaCall, $0.99, by Chofter.com: Call a single number with just one tap.
Like to tell us more, Shane? :-)
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Hi Shane, and thanks for a great app! Can I suggest a few enhancements to consider for your to-do list?
I can't seem to edit the settings for my flickr users (set their images to random vs. later). It seems the only way around this now is to delete them and then re-ad with the setting you need.
Any chance you could up the number of images and/or frequency and/or add the ability to optionally download more frequently than 1/day? Right now the max is 60 images and switch every five minutes. This means that the images will repeat every 5 hours or about 5 times each day. I'd love to make it so I could load a new image at least every 5 minutes and not have them repeat at all, or at most just once per day. I know that would be a lot of pictures (144 or 288 respectively - more even if you want to provide for more often then once every 5 minutes). But it would be pretty cool!
I don't know if flickr's API provides for this, but it would be nice to be able to see a person's images that aren't accessible by the general public but are accessible to your flickr account (if you are a freind/family/contact).
Finally, another nice little feature might be to allow users to save an image from the gallery of downloaded images.
Again, thanks for the great app!
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Hi dvdmon,
You're very welcome, glad you like it.
Editing user settings is in the pipeline, a few people have asked for that.
I suppose I could up the max photos to 100 or so.
For accessing private photos, I'd need to add Flickr authentication capabilities. A number of people have asked for it, but I'm not sure if I'll find the time for a while, as it's a bit more complex than the other small changes.
As for saving images, I don't intend to do that, as there could be issues with permissions for other users photos. I figure if I'm just setting them as the wallpaper it's fine, but if I let users easily copy the images the issue of ownership gets a bit murkier. You can still link to the Flickr web page and download it from there, but I'd feel uncertain about the legality of including it in my app.
Thanks for all the suggestions, keep them coming!
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Hi Michael,
InstaCall is just a silly little app I knocked out in an hour. I had an app that did the same on the iPhone, called gfCaller, and used it all the time, so wrote one for my Pre. All it does is call a single person with a single tap, very handy if you're always calling the same person.
I've also released a free game called Mazer, please give it a go. I'm pretty proud of it ;-)
Shane
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I hadn't noticed Mazer was yours. It's excellent and pretty compulsive!
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Glad you like it - feel free to discuss your thoughts in the comments section ;-)
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Hey guys,
FYI, I just submitted v0.2.3 of Flickr Addict, with user editing and a slideshow feature added. I also increased the max number of downloads to 100.
Flickr Addict Lite will be updated when they get around to approving v0.2.2 which I submitted a while ago.
Enjoy!
Shane
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Flickr Addict v0.2.3 is out now. Have fun ;-)
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I just downloaded the lite version and it seems like a great app so far, I'll no doubt need to get the full version soon...
Any chance in adding a 'block tag' option? I don't want so many kittens on my phone :)
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Heh, I considered adding one recently, for the same reason you did. Too many damn kittens. Instead I spend a minute blocking the individual photos.
Unfortunately the pics might not be tagged the same, so the tag blocking probably won't work.
Maybe a keyword block, so if that word occurs in the description or the tags it'll be blocked ..... will think about it.
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Shane, is there any reason why we can currently only select one set from a particular user? I'm using FA to rotate between my own photos on Flickr, and it would be nice to pull images from more than one of my sets.
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Hi Kelvin,
Yes, laziness on my part ;-) I'll fix it for the next version.
Shane
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Jake, you'll be happy to know I've just submitted the next version of Flickr Addict that does auto-rotation of wallpapers. It was a bit tricky as you can't do it on the phone really, but it works pretty well. Look out for the update!
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Awesome Shane! I'll be sure to update my review.
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Shane, noticing that Flickr Addict is no longer refreshing photos at midnight, no doubt due to background app changes in 1.4 as reported on Precentral. Can you say whether there will be a fix or have you completely lost interest :) ?
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Hi Kelvin,
The new version out today has introduced a dashboard stage to get around this problem. I'm very annoyed at Palm for breaking all the background apps - they said that it's to stop memory leaks, but when they kill a background app it keeps all it's memory intact, so they just caused even more memory leaks.
Let me know if the new version doesn't work for you. It seems fine for me.
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Apparently Palm are hurrying along 1.4.1 which is supposed to fix this issue. Users are developers alike are desperate to have it, as lots of apps have been broken by 1.4.
PS Hope paid apps arrive soon - I'm really looking forward to the full version of Flickr Addict!
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Yeah, they've already sent it out to us, and I'm testing now. Their proposed fix isn't good enough for Flickr Addict though, as it just increases the time before killing your background app to 60 seconds. So, the dashboard stage has to stay unfortunately.
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Thanks Shane, I knew you had not forsaken us :).
I actually like the idea of a dashboard stage, as it would give some feedback if I happen to be using the phone at midnight as to what's slowing it down, etc. Installed the new version, but haven't seen the new dashboard in action yet.
I did notice that multiple sets from the same user are still verboten. I hope you still plan on adding that?
Surprised to hear that killing drawn out background apps in 1.4 doesn't flush the memory. So there are no benefits?
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Oh, another fun feature would be to allow galleries to be used. Then I could go around Flickr and choose 18 pics for Flickr Addict purposes.
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@Kelvin, I definitely still plan on adding multiple sets per user, but keep getting distracted trying to win the Hot Apps competition - I'm currently in the top 10, but trying to work my way to to #1 ;-) I'll get to it though!!
@jake, that's a very good idea, I'll stick it on the todo list.
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How are you looking for prize money in the Palm challenge?
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My game Mazer is in the top ten. Flickr Addict is in the to 220, and Flickr Addict Lite is close to making it into the top 220. A couple of other apps might make it in too.
But Mazer is my big hope. I figure if I get 200,000 sales or so over the 4 months I could be in with a shot.
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Good luck Shane, I've already downloaded all of those, so there's nothing more I can do :).
If you're going to add galleries support, perhaps you can also add favorites from users too? When you get around to it, of course.
Automatic downloading works again, BTW, thanks!
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I'll tell all the Preople I know to download them all!
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Hey all,
Flickr Addict v0.2.8 was just submitted with the ability to use multiple photo sets per user.
I tried to get galleries working, but the Flickr API for galleries is strangely broken. It'll let you find out what galleries a user has created, and what galleries a particular photo is in, but you can't list the photos in a gallery. So unfortunately it isn't possible right now.
If Flickr fix the API later I'll add it in.
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FYI, I just added some nice geolocation functionality to Flickr Addict. I'll submit it to Palm tomorrow, so you should see it the first half of next week.
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sweet!
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Here's a video of the new version - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8agkaPc5DM
Skip to 4:20 for the GPS stuff
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Nice work on the gps stuff Shane. Did you ever try adding a particular user's Favorites as a feed option? Seems like an appealing option.
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Hi Kelvin,
I don't have plans for adding favourites, as that requires authentication, which is a much bigger fish to fry. Perhaps in the future, but not the near future.
On a brighter note, the new version of Flickr Addict is out, with GPS goodness. Tell your friends!
No seriously, tell your friends ;-) It's almost dropped out of the Hot Apps competition, and just has to hang in for 3 more weeks!! All help is appreciated - Jake you're excused after that amazing review you posted :-)
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Shane,
I keep selecting this place, which FA finds just fine, but when I download it grabs 30 photos from my set and none from the location.
www.flickr.com/places/United States/New Hampshire/Meredith/East Bear Island/
Any idea what the bug could be?
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I still love Flickr Addict and will contribute to the Precentral review to keep it on top.
As for the favorites, do they really need authentication? I logged out of Flickr and can still see users' favorites (although not any favorites that are private). From their favorites page, there's a RSS link. Does that mean it's available for whatever Flickr API Flickr Addict requires? I'd settle for the public faves from a selected user. It would be a cool way to pick trusted photographers to be the curators of your wallpaper gallery.
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Jake,
Thanks for the tweet, it's great that Palm picked it up! The reason that photos for a given location might not be found is that Flickr only supports getting photos from a location that were taken in the last 12 hours. It's something to do with not murdering the database with massive distance calculations. So, choosing a popular place will work best.
Kelvin, apologies, I assumed that a users favourites were all private. I'll look into it!
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Thanks Shane, I appreciate you looking into favorites. There's no rush, since addressing the requests of your current customers might not serve your short term goal of generating new sales. Might I suggest adding a preset to the best bikini shots on Flickr to jumpstart some immediate sales? :)
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Well, I was thinking of having a global "Favourite Sets" list that people like, which I'm sure will result in the same thing ;-)
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Just downloaded an update (v3.6) from the App Catalog, but didn't notice any changes Shane. Do you keep a changelog anywhere?
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Hi Kelvin,
I usually put changes at the end of the app summary. However v0.3.6 was just a bug fix release, no new features were introduced. I updated most of my apps to include some cool new statistics stuff that the guys at webosroundup.com have made available. Nothing to see here, move along ;-)
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Jake, you rock! Just saw your review on the PreCentral front page!
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No man, you're the rock star. I just call 'em like I see 'em.
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www.precentral.net/flickr-addict
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So, I've been playing around with CSS3 animations - you're gonna love the next version :-) Should be out end of next week.
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Looking forward to it, Shane. Thanks!
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.... and Flickr authentication is finished. You guys are lucky it rains so often in Ireland or I would've done something else with my Sunday :-)
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Excellent.
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Congratulations to Shane for his victory in the Palm Hot Apps competition; he won one of the $10,000 prizes in the free app category for Mazer. And if you haven't tried Mazer, you're missing a treat!
www.precentral.net/palm-announces-hot-apps-winners
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Thanks Michael, I'm pretty chuffed here :-) Flickr Addict also squeezed into the top 200, so thanks guys for pushing it so hard.
The new version is being submitted tonight, and is a pretty huge update, so check on Friday.
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Looking forward to the update, Shane. Has anyone tried the new Flickr app, Plickr? Only 8 downloads so far. I'm willing to hold out for Shane's, if he ever gets around to it :).
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One of his other apps, FlickrCam, violated my Flickr Permission guideline. So I'm not going to buy Plickr until I see how it works.
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Watching the video now. Looks nice! Glad to see OAuth working & you've followed my guidelines. Hopefully this means we'll have a full Flickr browsing & uploading app soon-- you've already done most of the hard work.
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Flickr actually uses "Flickr Auth", which was apparently the basis on which OAuth was created. However, it's a good bit simpler to implement.
So yeah, this was the first step in writing a full Flickr app. The fancy new thumbnail view was written for that, and I should be able to reuse large chunks of the code. Might just call it Flickr Addict Pro :-)
As for Plickr, the developer, Inglorious Apps, is very good and has written some very useful apps, so I might even download it myself.
But mine will rock so much harder :-)
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Can't wait to run Flickr Addict Pro on my Palm Pre2, Flickr Addict on my Palm Picture, Flickr Addict Collector on my Palm Printer & Flickr Addict Studio on my Palm Pad!
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Glad to hear it :-) Though the plan is for Pro to go beyond wallpapers to "everything else", including printing.
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Hey guys,
Would you be interested in trying out a beta of Flickr Addict Pro? I've been working on it quite a bit, and next week should have something worth looking at.
I'm really looking for feedback on this, as I don't want it to be "just another" Flickr client - I want it to kick the ass of anything on any platform. To do that, I guess i have to give guys like you exactly what you want :-)
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Shane, I'd love to try out a beta of Flickr Addict Pro, please!
And thanks for all the work you've done on apps up to now (I play Mazer as much as the expensive games I bought from EA!).
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Definitely will beta test!
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Fantastic, thanks guys!
This weekend is when a large chunk of the work will be done. You guys gave me some great suggestions for the app at www.flickr.com/groups/palmpre/discuss/72157623828207811/ , but if you have any more I'm very interested.
I looked into getting group discussion support into it, but the reason you don't see it in any other Flickr app is that they just don't support it. Which sucks. However, I'll see how much I can get in this weekend - it should be plenty for an initial beta at least.
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Me too! I'd love to be involved! Can't wait to see what you've come up with so far.
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OK, obvious things like having a browser that shows nothing but the photo. Swipe left & right to move within the context. Swipe up & down to change contexts. So if I discover a photo from my contacts, swiping left shows a photo from the net contact. Swiping down shows the same photo, but indicates that the context has changed-- it will now be in Kelvin's stream. Up & down some more to show the sets/groups it's in. Then left & right swipes to navigate within the group. Largely inspired by the recent Flickr redesign.
But that's pretty specific. Being able to search nearby photos and then sort by date, relevance or interestingness would be dandy. Slideshow is obvious. Blog this capability would be great, too.
Basically, I want it to do everything!
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