This is one of the coolest Christmas decorations I’ve ever seen. Switch on one of the characters and they all come on. It works when they are spread around the room as well. They play a whole bunch of different songs too.
Tag: Flickr
It Lives Again
The countdown clock ornament lives again!
Mad Cat
She had been snuggling on the tree skirt. Those days are ovah, Ms Kitty.
HoHoHo
There are actual Christmas presents beneath our Christmas tree.
The cat is PISSED.
Merry Flickr
Did any other Flickr Pro users out there get a FlickrMail from FlickrHQ saying the following…
“Please enjoy 3 more months of Flickr Pro for free as our way of saying thanks this holiday season!
Your Flickr Pro subscription now ends on…”
It looks legit, but did every Pro user get the same holiday gift?
I’ve mentioned before that I love Flickr. I use it like crazy. I might use it more than Facebook. I use it so much I’m afraid I might burn a hole in it. I want Flickr to succeed. I want it restored to its former greatness. I want it to be the photo site on the Internet. I want it to rule.
The new iPhone app is a step in the right direction. It’s good. I like it. I don’t see myself using Instagram anymore. I’m eagerly awaiting an iPad app, but I tend to go to the website over the app when using my iPad anyway.
The app is a step toward restoring greatness. Giving me three free months is a step toward keeping me loyal. Not that my loyalty was in doubt.
Keep up the good work, Flickr.
I’m the worst gift wrapper ever.
Great White Buffalo (Burger)
Potential Banner Pics
I’m in full on nerd mode right now.
I wanted to change the photo in my banner. I figured something guitar related would be appropriate. I had a couple of pics that might be good source material…
This one has received over a thousand hits on Flickr.
This one seems to have a little too much going on, but after cropping it down it might be okay.
I don’t want to use camera phone pics, but this Hipstamatic of my 12-string is a minor favorite.
In the end I decided to take a couple of new pictures of my Les Paul and try those.
I ended up going with an attempt at redoing the banner on my Google+ profile, which is a camera phone pic taken on the day Jim Marshall died.
And there you have it… A nerd and his camera and his guitars.
New iOS Apps Make Me Happy
What is significant about this?
I uploaded it to Flickr, using the brand spanking new Flickr iPhone app. Why is that significant? Because it uploaded the full sized image! The old app couldn’t do that. The old app shrunk the image down. Why on earth would a huge photo sharing web service have a mobile app that reduced the resolution of the images it uploaded? What they hell were they thinking??
Anyway, the problem is gone. The new app uploads the full image. It also has all sorts of instagramish filters that I totally ignored. I might play with them eventually, but not this time. I have pretty much stopped using Instagram. I actually deleted my account in protest of the removal of Twitter and (more importantly) Posterous integration, but then I went and opened another account. These days, when I want vintage looking camera phone pictures I go to hipstamatic.
Anyway, back on subject. I never really used the old Flickr mobile app because it sucked. Simply. I stuck to the web for my mobile Flickr needs, even though the Flickr mobile site kinda sucks too. I haven’t really done much with the new app, so I’m not going to declare it a success of anything. I am going to say that it’s a step in the right direction. When Marissa Mayer took over as the CEO of Yahoo I was among the many who publicly begged her to restore Flickr back to its former glory. I love Flickr. I want everyone and their mother to use Flickr. I want Flickr to once again be THE place on the web for photography, whether it be professionals posting magnificent works of photographic art, or dweebs like me posting hundreds of random camera phone images mixed in with slightly higher quality, but no less pointless vacation pictures. Basically, I want Flickr to rule again. May this new app be a sign that Yahoo is actually going to support, develop, and grow Flickr once again.
In other free iOS app news…
It’s back…
Google Maps is finally back! Oh happy day! No longer do we need to worry that our iPhone’s maps app is going to lead us to the wrong place, or lead us to the right place only to find out that the thing we’re looking for isn’t there. Peace of mind returns!
I had the new Google Maps app installed literally within seconds of hearing it was available. I couldn’t grab it fast enough. I only really used Apple Maps once, but after hearing all the horror stories and even hearing Tim Cook apologize for how crappy it is, I never even considered giving it a chance. Even before taking the last update I was playing with Waze quite a bit, but I still prefer Google. Tried and true, trusted Google Maps. It’s nice to have you back, old friend. We’ve missed you.
Flickr Slideshow
This is a test to see if I can embed a Flickr slideshow into a post.
Inside the Red Head's Head 