Flickr Uploadr 3.0 beta available now

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Flickr Uploadr 3.0 beta available now

by Christina Warren Nov 20th 2007

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.

Tags: flickr, flickr uploadr, FlickrUploadr, photo managment, PhotoManagment, upload in flickr, UploadInFlickr

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

xxdesmus said 10:57PM on 11-20-2007

dude, who's the girl in the bra in the images? :P

Great news, this is a wonderful app for all Flickr users.

Christina Warren said 11:22PM on 11-20-2007

Yes, it's me. Needed to upload something for the test. And it's not a bra - it's a top from Banana Republic!

michael said 1:06AM on 11-21-2007

@Christina Warren:

Wow. You look just like I thought you would.

Amazing.

ZATZAi said 4:00AM on 11-21-2007

I believe that would be the author of the article, Christina Warren; here's her Flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17419748@N03/

thePeterN said 9:11AM on 11-21-2007

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.

xxdesmus said 8:03PM on 11-24-2007

@Christina Warren

Wow, I feel like a moron. *kidding* Cute pictures..

MeoLiz said 2:22PM on 12-17-2007

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