Flickr has just launched the beta of Flickr Uploadr 3.0, available for both Windows and Mac users now. Flickr has a pretty great upload utility built into their web page (assuming Flash is working), so why use an external program? Well, if you want to upload a large group of pictures, Flickr Uploadr lets you select any number of photos, add titles/tags/descriptions, create sets, change the privacy settings and even alter the order, all before uploading to Flickr. That's very snazzy, and it can save a ton of time.For our very informal, non exhaustive test, we selected 50 photos (640x480 images from PhotoBooth, not 50 photos from our digital camera), labeled them as a set, tagged a few images and then hit "upload." To our pleasure, uploading was significantly faster via the program than using the web interface. Approximately 3 megabytes of photographs were online in seemingly seconds, as opposed to the several minutes it would take to do the same job using the Flash utility on the Flickr site. Our photos weren't all included in part of the set - something we easily corrected on our Flickr page - but they were all correctly tagged and labeled.
The software is still in beta - so if you try it out, keep that in mind - but the Flickr guys are asking for bug reports and feedback in the thread we link to above, so if you find something let them know - they are really great about addressing the issues and working on solutions.
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11-20-2007 @ 10:57PM
xxdesmus said...
dude, who's the girl in the bra in the images? :P
Great news, this is a wonderful app for all Flickr users.
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11-20-2007 @ 11:22PM
Christina Warren said...
Yes, it's me. Needed to upload something for the test. And it's not a bra - it's a top from Banana Republic!
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11-21-2007 @ 1:06AM
michael said...
@Christina Warren:
Wow. You look just like I thought you would.
Amazing.
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11-21-2007 @ 4:00AM
ZATZAi said...
I believe that would be the author of the article, Christina Warren; here's her Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17419748@N03/
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11-21-2007 @ 9:11AM
thePeterN said...
Best of all using Flickr's Uploadr downsizes your photos before uploading them, which eats less into your Flickr monthly bandwidth limits. A nice feature for those who have a free account.
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11-24-2007 @ 8:03PM
xxdesmus said...
@Christina Warren
Wow, I feel like a moron. *kidding* Cute pictures..
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12-17-2007 @ 2:22PM
MeoLiz said...
MeoLiz
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