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Holiday gifts from Flickr
Flickr is making our holidays a little cheerier with some bonuses for Pro and Free members alike. The biggest bonus is for Pro users, of course: Beginning this month all Pro account will have totally unlimited storage and bandwidth. While probably only a fraction of Pro users were bumping up against the old 2GB-per-month upload limit, who can argue with unlimited? Free users have cause to celebrate, too: The per-month upload limit for free accounts has been bumped up to 100MB, a 500% increase over the previous 20MB limit. A Pro account still costs $24.95 per year, and a free account clearly still costs nada. For those "Giving the Gift of Flickr," Flickr also has a new system that lets you buy a Pro account activation code that will work for both existing Flickr users and those just signing up, and they also have a cute little card you can print out to stuff in that special someone's stocking.But wait, there's more! The Flickr crew have blessed us with a cute holiday easter egg: If you add a note to one of your photos with the text "ho ho ho hat" or "ho ho ho beard," Flickr will add a cute santa hat or beard to the photo wherever you put the note. You can see it in action on the dashing Merlin Mann. Lovely!
[Via eclecticism and Waxy.org]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentssarah gilbertDec 13th 2006 1:19PM
hurray! as someone who regularly bumped up against the 2gb limit (it's why you never see many photos from me after the 25th or so ;) I'm thrilled the limits were raised.
Fergus MacdonaldDec 13th 2006 4:39PM
Great ideas for Christmas, and i've already had a santa hat on one of my photos by another member. But what annoys me with Flickr is the fact that they could easily have the storage to allow far more than 20mb of uploads for free users. They also limit the number of photos that you can use to 200, but they don't delete the old ones, they just don't let you access them. Seems a bit greedy to me - they could limit your uploads so that you don't take up much space, but still allow you to display more than 200 photos.
travis spencerDec 13th 2006 11:23PM
@Fergus: i think you're the greedy one. it's a free service. Take it or leave it.
travis spencerDec 14th 2006 5:43AM
that was a little harsh Fergus, please accept my apology.
Hitesh SawlaniDec 14th 2006 11:23AM
Sample (also known as shameless plug)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitkaiser/293883226/
It is a pity the free service doesnt have larger limits, ive been a pro user for a year and half now and absolutely love it, but then again photography is a becoming a big hobby for me, for other people who just want to put up some photos its not every attractive
Yes its free, but so are sites like facebook who allow unlimited photos uploaded
MooreDec 14th 2006 7:36AM
The guy with the Santa beard looks like Peter Krause. Petie sure is a hottie.
TobeDec 14th 2006 9:32AM
I´m sure that beards and christmashats aren´t "easter eggs"