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By Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner
First Edition
February 2006
Pages: 364
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-10245-3 |
ISBN 13: 9780596102456
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
Flickr Hacks expands the fun and the utility of Flickr, Yahoo!'s popular digital photo-sharing service, by customizing this cutting-edge technology to store, sort, and share photos. The book adopts the game-like appeal of the Flickr site, in individual projects ranging from easy to advanced. Quick hacks show you how to post photos directly to blogs and upload photos from a cellphone. Advanced hacks teach you to use the Flickr API, make photo puzzles and collages, and geocode photos to plot on a map.
Full Description
Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface.
Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what's possible. Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to:
- Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone
- Mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes
- Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too
- Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver
- Geotag your photos and map your contacts
- Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet
- Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags
- Build a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photos
- Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS
- Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications
Featured customer reviews
Great book but ..., July 12 2007
I am finding Flickr Hacks a very enjoyable read and easy to follow. However, like the previous reviewer, I am disappointed that the zip file isn't available here as specified.
A Useful Resource, February 12 2006
I've found the book very useful so far and I think it's structure makes it appealing to a range of users because the hacks range from the very simple through to quite challenging. I'm particularly looking forward to grappling with the flickr mosaic hack.
Releasing Flickr Hacks as a Rough Cuts title is a great initiative, though my major complaint about this is that the zip file of the code text for all the hacks promised on page 4 doesn't seem to be available on the O'Reilly site yet. I know that the book is still in development but as the PDF file doesn't allow users to select text for copy/paste purposes it means that trying to implement any of the hacks involves some typing. This isn't a huge hassle but it's not as convenient as it could be. This will undoubtedly be remedied shortly but it is a but of a nuisance at the moment.
Overall - a good buy.
(Review written 12th February 2006)
Media reviews
"In all, Flickr Hacks is an eminently readable book that shows you how to take maximum advantage of Yahoo's photo sharing service. If you're new to Flickr, consider the book essential reading. Even if you're a regular Flickr user, Flickr Hacks will likely open your eyes to some new and interesting way to use the service."
-- Chris Sherman, SearchEngineWatch
"Flickr is one of those web sites that has gone in directions I don't think anyone ever imagined it would go. What started out as simple photo-sharing is now a full-featured site with a programming API. Many of these are covered and explored in the book Flickr Hacks - Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online by Paul Bausch & Jim Bumgardner...If you use Flickr and actively load photos out there, this will be a "must read" book to enhance and expand your Flickr experience. Even if you're just a casual user like me, you'll have your eyes opened to some new possibilities."
-- Thomas Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings
"The authors have exposed a wide variety of interesting hacks that can be accomplished using the Flickr photo sharing service, which is used by more than two million photo enthusiasts. The authors show how to extend the basic services of storing, organizing, and sharing through the use of dozens of clever hacks."
-- Michael Kleper, The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing
"Flickr Hacks is an eminently readable book that shows you how to take maximum advantage of Yahoo's photo sharing service."
--Chris Sherman, SearchEngineWatch
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