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Filed under: Developer, Photo

Flickr collects cool photo apps in its new App Garden

Flickr has an open and very powerful API that's been around since 2004. Five years later, developers have built an enormous number of great apps and cool toys for Flickr. Now you can browse and discover Flickr apps in one central location, the new App Garden. Apps in the garden range from stats to importing/exporting to integration with other sites.

Although Flickr has chosen some featured apps to display prominently on the front page, any developer can submit to the App Garden. The Garden itself isn't the only place apps are being promoted around Flickr. On each photo page, along with the info you regularly see, you'll now see which app the photographer used to upload the image - as long as it's an app has already been submitted and listed by Flickr. If you're a developer, you have plenty of incentive to submit your app, and if you're a Flickr power user, you'll definitely want to check out what's already been posted.

[via Flickr Blog]

Filed under: Office, Web services, Google

Set your Google Docs free with the new Convert, Zip and Download feature

One of the first moves from Google's Data Liberation Front is the option to take your documents out of Google Docs with a new Convert, Zip and Download feature. You'll find the new feature under "export" in the More Actions menu. You can download multiple docs at once - wouldn't be music of a data liberation feature otherwise, right? - and that includes text documents, presentations and spreadsheets in the same batch. Downloads are limited to 500MB at a time, which shouldn't be a problem for the typical Docs user.

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering group within Google, pushing to make it easier for users to get their data out of any Google service quickly and for free. Google Docs exporting is just the first: in fact, they've got a whole list of Google services and the best ways to move your data into and out of them. Currently, about 2/3 of Google services meet the Front's standards for data exporting, so they still have plenty more work to do.

Filed under: Internet, Photo, Macintosh, Web services, Apple, Freeware

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto

Facebook Exporter for iPhotoIf you've ever wondered what the easiest way is to send photos from iPhoto to Facebook, the answer is Facebook Exporter for iPhoto.

Since Facebook is the largest photo website on the web in terms of images served, it makes sense that people would want to streamline the process of uploading photos to it as much as possible. Using Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, the process couldn't be more simple. just choose the pictures that you want to upload, optionally add an album and picture descriptions (and you can even tag people!), then press Export. You'll have to approve the photos on Facebook, but the plugin pops up a dialog with the option to go straight to your new album and do so.

You need to log the Facebook Exporter plugin in to your Facebook account before using it, and I had a little trouble logging in the first time, but once I was logged in everything was smooth sailing. I suspect I was experiencing a PEBCAK error.

Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Macintosh

Get your photos from iPhoto to Flickr with FFXporter


If you use iPhoto, and you have a Flickr account, but you don't have a way of getting your pictures from one to the other, you might want to give FFXporter a look. It's a free iPhoto plugin that -- just as the name would indicate -- exports files from your iPhoto library to Flickr. Although there are other ways of getting this done, I have yet to find another free one that works as well.

FFXporter preserves a lot of the data that iPhoto and Flickr can both use, like keywords (tags on Flickr) and EXIF info. Since it's a plugin, you won't have to open another app to get the job done, you can upload pictures right from iPhoto. Probably the most useful feature is set support, so you can batch upload a bunch of photos at once, and add them all to the same set on Flickr.

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

All in one driver solution with DriverMax


Need to reinstall Windows but you misplaced your driver disks? Not sure you have everything you need? DriverMax has you covered. Backing up and reinstalling your drivers couldn't be easier.

After installing DriverMax, go into Driver Operations and click on Export drivers. A list of all your installed drivers will be displayed and you can pick and choose which ones to export, or simply export the whole lot in one go. Once you've reinstalled Windows, go back into Driver Operations, click on Import drivers, and point to the folder containing your saved drivers. The import can take a while, but in comparison to manually installing each driver individually, this is a walk in the park.

DriverMax is also useful even if you don't need to perform a complete reinstall - you can use the program just to make sure that your drivers are up to date or export a list of your installed drivers as an html or text file.

DriverMax is compatible with Windows 2003, XP and Vista and you have to supply your email address in order to receive a registration code.

Filed under: Internet, Office, Google

Google adds PowerPoint export option for presentations

Google Presentations PPT exportIt's Microsoft's world and we're all just living in it. As much as you may try to pretend this is true, it becomes readily apparent any time somebody launches a Microsoft Office competitor. Because the first question isn't "does it have all of the features I'd expect from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint?" No, the first question is "can it open MS Office documents and save documents in Office formats?"

Up until recently the answer for Google's online office suite, Google Docs was "kind of." While you could import Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with no problem, there was no way to export Google Presentation documents as PowerPoint presentations. Now Google has finally rolled out a "save as PPT" feature for presentations. You've always been able to save Word and Excel files.

Google has also added a new saved searches feature which lets you access searches for keywords, document types, or other features from your sidebar.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, How-Tos

DLS Tip: Export your Firefox bookmarks



Firefox is a great browser 'n all, but if you've been looking for a way to create a manual backup of your bookmarks or - *gasp* - try a different browser on for size, exporting your 'marks might not be the most obvious of processes (by the way: BonEcho in our screenshot is simply an Intel-optimized branch of Firefox). Sure, you can go up to the File menu to import bookmarks, but Export is nowhere to be seen... unless you open the Bookmarks Manager from the Bookmarks menu. That manager is where the File > Export command lives (Mac users: simply make sure that Manager window is front-most when checking the File menu), allowing you to save your bookmarks for backing up, sharing or porting to another browser.

Filed under: E-mail, Google

Gmail paper could be real after all - no, not really

GmailGoogle loves a good April Fool's joke, and you may remember that last week Google promised a new service called Gmail Paper. The concept was that you could request a hard copy of all of your emails, and Google would ship a box with printouts to your door.

Sounds silly, right? But the idea of being able to back up your email is anything but. Sure, you can configure Outlook or Thunderbird to work with Gmail to collect your messages. But wouldn't it be great if there was just a button you could press to export some of your 2.8GB of email from Google's server?

Well, it looks like that might be more than just a pipe dream. Google has a new Gmail suggestion site up, where you can select from a list of features you'd like to see implemented. You can only select 5 of the 45 options, but here are a few of our favorites:
  • Export messages to a CD for storage
  • Filter outgoing messages
  • Change the label system to folders
  • Hierarchy of label systems (i.e. sub-labels)
  • Sort messages by size, date, sender
  • Turn conversation view off
  • Ability to add or remove messages from conversations
  • Integration with Google Calendard/Groups/Reader/Picasa/News/Blogger/Orkut/Google Talk
  • To-do list
  • Import messages from other email accounts
  • Delete attachments from messages
  • Add notes to messages
  • Multi-person chat
  • Have Gmail do my laundry
We're pretty sure that last one is in there just to make an even 45. Still, it gets our vote.

[via ZDNet]

Filed under: Web services

11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks

Backup del.icio.usWe've talked about data lock-in before, that sorry state when a web service won't give you your data in a useful, standard format. del.icio.us, I am happy to observe, is no such web service, and by way of proof I direct you to 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks. In addition to the obvious—export HTML or XML—you can backup to Gmail or straight to a MySQL database, safe them to an Excel spreadsheet, automatically sync them with a whole pile of other bookmarking services, and more.

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