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Imaging tip: Bulkr lets you backup your Flickr photos... and more!
Specifically, Bulkr does two things -- and it does them well. First, you can download your entire Flickr stream -- either as one big stream of images, or broken into directories for each of your Sets. Second, you can browse Flickr with Bulkr. It's sharp and smooth all at once, Adobe AIR oozing from every button and orifice -- yes, it's an AIR app so it's cross-platform too!
You can also download photos from other streams -- as long as they haven't been flagged as 'undownloadable', anyway. It's also a faster and tidier way of searching for Creative Commons-licensed photos too.
All in all, Bulkr's a great tool for manipulating Flickr. The only gripe I have is that it doesn't save image meta data (tags, EXIF, etc.) in a standard XML format. Instead you get human-readable text files. Still, depending on your purpose, that might be desirable!
[Incidentally, does anyone know if 'flicker' was unavailable when the creators of Flickr first registered their domain name? Or was Flickr just the first in a long line of omg-vowel-omission-makes-us-sound-fresh-and-funky Web services?]
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Subscribe to commentsMatt BurrisMay 14th 2010 5:09AM
Flickr probably wasn't the first with the vowel-omission domain name, but it was probably the first for many people based on its meteoric rise in popularity shortly after it opened up to the public. With domains being taken up more and more, people are having to get more creative with their domain names. Flickr was one such inevitable way.
larsMay 14th 2010 8:38AM
Funny. I use flickr as a backup tool, not the other way around ;)
Ok, I guess though :)
PrakazMay 15th 2010 4:28PM
Thanks for featuring Bulkr here!
The ability to save photo metadata (title, description, tags etc) into photo EXIF is coming up in the next version!
And yep, 'flicker' was registered by someone else years before creators of Flickr even thought about the site :)
Sebastian AnthonyMay 15th 2010 4:55PM
Cool -- glad to hear it :)
And you're welcome!
mimiy2kMay 15th 2010 10:03PM
Prakaz,
How long until next version comes out? In the meantime, can you tell me the easiest method for integrating the metadata text with the image itself? I am uploading these to a gallery page on my website and adding the metadata text by copy-paste to each image description, author and copyright would be too time-consuming. THANKS!!