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Flickr .Net Screensaver - Release 4.2

Flickr .Net Screensaver - Release: Release 4.2
Finally released a new version of the screensaver. This is a beta release, but hopefully should fix the problems that people have been having with memory and threading issues.

Flickr.Net Screensaver 4.1

I’ve finally got around to releasing a new version of my screensaver. It unfortunately doesn’t add much functionality, but it should get around the “threading” error, as well as fix a bug or two elsewhere.
[Download Flickr Screensaver 4.1 (420k)]
As usual, let me know if you have any problems.

Flickr.Net used in Microsoft WPF Demo

Title says it all really, the Flickr.Net API Library has been used to produce a very nice styling and templating demo for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Its called ‘PhotoStore’.
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[tags]microsoft,flickr.net[/tags]

Flickr Mashups Book

Beginning Flickr Mashups, the book I worked on as Technical Editor last year is finally available for publishing. It covers a wide variety of Flickr Mashups including mixing Flickr with RSS, Technorati and Google Maps. Most of the code uses PHP and HTML/Javascript with a bit of Perl for command line tools.
I’ve not got myself [...]

FlickrWebCam

A new application using the Flickr.Net API Library has been launched. Basically allows easy and quick uploading of your web cam images onto Flickr! Cool or what.
Possibly based on the Coding 4 Fun article that tells you how to hook up a web cam using Visual Studio 2005 it looks like everything I was gonna [...]

FlickrNet API Release - 2.1.1 - include Geo code

A new release of the FlickrNet API Library.
This release includes full support for the new Flickr Geotagging features, including searching by location, getting and setting of photos location information and the permissions associated with that geo information.
Some example code: Searching and Setting Geo Location.
Download the latest release binaries here. and the source code here.
[tags]flickrapi, .net, code, [...]

GeoReTagr - Extract your GPS EXIF data

You may be aware that if you have currently got uploaded photos containing GPS data inside the EXIF then this data is not being loaded into Flickr’s new Location database.
The following is a little web app that does just that for you.
http://www.wackylabs.net/dev/georetagr/
It uses phpFlickr and I managed to write it in about 1 day.
Give it [...]

FlickrNet moves to CodePlex

The FlickrNet API Library has a new home, on CodePlex, the new open source hosting platform from Microsoft. I made this decision to try to bring together source code, release files, discussion and documentation into one place, rather than the current situation where it is on two or three different web sites.
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=FlickrNet
The site feature Discussion [...]

Flickr Mashups book

Flickr Mashups Book
I thought I’d mention that I’m currently working as Technical Reviewer for a new book from Wrox about writing Flickr Mashups. To quote:

Using mashup technologies including REST, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, XML-RPC, CSS and more

Using Flickr API Objects such as Interestingness, Tags, Sets, Groups and others

Remixing Flickr with Flickr feeds

Remixing using the [...]

Flickr Profile Widget

FD, over at FlagrantDisregards Flickr Toys has done it again with this wonderful Flickr Profile widget. I love it!
[tags]flickr, toys, widget[/tags]

Flickr-ing about with .Net

I’ve been published!
I wrote an article a few weeks back for the “Coding 4 Fun” section of the Microsoft MSDN web site and its just gone live!
View the article or download the sample code
Go me!
Update: The article has reappeared on the Coding 4 Fun web site! Hurrah!
[tags]microsoft, flickr, .net, coding4fun, article[/tags]

Flickr.Net API Library - 2.0.3

Just released some bug fixes, plus adding a few more supported methods and parameters to the code.
There are two undocumented features included in this release - the Photo.RawTags return by various search methods, and the TagMode.Boolean search tag mode (boolnea tags take the form of “+findme -notme” - I’ve yet to find a way of [...]

Flickr.Net example code

I’ve just discovered this article on the SAMS publishing web site which uses the Flickr.Net API to interogate Flickr.
It covers Authentication, Searching and Uploading of images.
I’m chuffed
Accessing Images with Flickr’s API
[tags]flickr, flickrapi, flickrdotnet, .net[/tags]

Robert Burke - Flickr Assistance

Just a quick post to introduce another application which is using the Flickr.Net API Library.
Rob Burke has been helping me for a while with various problems we where having with the code, most specifically the Medium Trust stuff, so a big thanks to him. He’s also developed what could be a very useful little tool [...]

Flickr.Net Library Source Code Release 2.0.0

After far too long, and many updates and changes I have finally released a new version of the Flickr.Net API Library source code. As usual it includes all source files, plus debug and release builds of the DLL.
[Download Here](http://www.wackylabs.net/flickr/flickr-api)