Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: Exposure

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Nik's Favourite iPhone Apps: Exposure

by Nik Fletcher Oct 10th 2008

When the iPhone launched almost all possible web services, whether officially or via a third-party, gained an iPhone-specific portal. However Yahoo!-owned Flickr only recently (October 1st) gained a well-designed web version. With the iPhone SDK on the block however, a number of iPhone-native Flickr clients are available for both Flickr browsing and uploading.

AirMe does a plethora of tricks when uploading to Flickr (as well as other services including Facebook) by using the iPhone's location-awareness to name, tag and geo-tag the image with your location. For browsing Flickr, however, Exposure from Connected Flow is perhaps the best. Available in both free (ad-supported) and paid-for ($9.99) versions, Exposure allows you to view photos from your own photostream, your contacts, today's Flickr 'Explore' pages, and the handy 'Near Me' feature which will find photos taken near your current location.

At least for now there's no Flickr uploading - but if, like me, you want to be able to show off Flickr photos using your iPhone, enjoy a slick way to view your contacts' photos on the go, or simply see what others are taking near you, Exposure is just the ticket.

Tags: Flickr

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jash Sayani said 4:54AM on 10-11-2008

I prefer ShoZu for uploading pics... However, the best photography app in the AppStore is PanoLab. It allows creating 3D panoramas from Pics on the iPhone!!!

I just created a 3D panorama of my room.....

John B. Kendrick said 11:43AM on 10-11-2008

If you're interested, you can read about my experiences with many of the web and native apps I've used since my original iPhone and more recent iPhone 3G purchases on my blog at http://johnkendrick.wordpress.com Just click on the index for a complete listing. John

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