Following one’s Twitter tweets are as good as subscribing to the RSS feeds. Not only it feeds you the latest updates, it’s also a perfect medium for communication and networking. Realizing how Twitter can potentially help to increase readerships, more and more bloggers/webmasters are massively promoting their Twitter account through blogs and websites.
If you love a particular blog you’ve stumble upon, chances are you will want to follow their Twitter too. But let’s not make this too difficult for users to find where that Twitter link is. Catchy graphics are always better than plain text and they are easier to spot. If you are keen to increase Twitter followers, here’s a compilation of 100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons you can apply on your site.
- Twitter Social Icons
Set of six social icons (Digg, Twitter, Delicious, RSS, Reddit & Stumbleupon) are free to use on your websites and blogs however you wish! Courtesy of Designreviver.
- 30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons Download
30 twitter buttons in EPS format.
- 31 Twiiter Button
- A Little Bird Told Me
Inspired by Twitter and other vector designs. By mattknow
- Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot
Tutorial on how to create a Twitter mascot for your blog or website.
- FREE Twitter Icons For Your Website/Blog
Flockey’s Twitter Icons for websites and blog. Availablei n .PNG, .PSD and .AI file format.
- Twitter Icon
Created by PhireDesign.
- Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration
- Free Twitter Graphics
Here are some free graphics to put on your site for that purpose- just place the image on your site and link to your Twitter profile.
- Twitter Birdy Icon
Cute birdy icon created by Kailoon. Available in transparency PNG format.
- IconTexto Webdev Social Bookmark
- Free Twitter Icon Set
This set contains 4 different poses of the Twitter bird. Both PNG and PSD versions has been included in the .zip file.
- Twitter Icons with Attitude
- Pracktika Free Icon Set
Designed by DryIcons, released by Smashing Magazine. Available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px, in 32-bit transparency PNG.
- (max)Icone Blog, Set 3
- Web 2.0rigami
Twitter icon, origami style.
- Free vector twitter icon
Royalty-free vector icon.
- Feed & Twitter Monster Icons
Feed and Twitter icons as monsters.
- Twitter icon for a fluid app
Really big Twitter “t” icon.
- High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons
- The Blue Bird
Little Twitter blue bird we previously used in Twitter wallpapers. Comes in high resolution .EPS and transparency .PNG file.
Adobe AIR was first introduced on 19 March 2007 with the name of Apollo and designed as a cross-operating system runtime that enables web developers to use their existing web development skills, code and tools to build and deploy rich web applications and content to the desktop.
With Adobe AIR’s rich features, developers are able to build application using HTML, Ajax, JavaScript, Flex and Flash. Therefore, we strongly believe that Adobe Air has unleashed the power to extend user experiences beyond the browser. Here’s our collection of 60+ Adobe AIR Application you should know. Full list after jump.
Google
Collection of Google product related AIR applications.
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GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with.
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ReadAir is a desktop client for Google Reader.
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Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to the desktop, with a host of features that help you understand how your website is performing and where you can improve.
Photo & Video
Adobe AIR applications that allow you to search, edit, save or upload photo and video.
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Flickr
Desktop Search is an Adobe AIR based utility which helps you to search Flickr images.
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ImageDropr is a new tool for uploading your images to flickr. This application takes a unique approach towards preparing your content, titles, tags, etc. by creating tools that expedite this process.
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Flickr Flipper allows you to search for Flickr photos and also search for photos from specific Flickr users. It uses Papervision to display the photos one at a time and even allows you to download the photo to your computer.
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Snoto Photo is a desktop application for browsing your recent photos as well as the recent photos of others. You can also do a slideshow of the photos.
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FLVPlay HD plays your local or remote flv and mp4 videos, as well as the ones from the YouTube servers which are available via the “Search” feature of the application.
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AIRTube Video Downloader allows you to download YouTube FLV videos by simply dragging or pasting in the video’s URL. After the video downloads the application will expand and show you a preview of the video.
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RichFLV allows you to read and edit FLV data. You can cut FLVs, convert the sound of the flv to mp3 and convert flv to swf.
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UvLayer is a social video application where you can discover, watch, collect and share video media. Searching currently focuses on videos from YouTube and Truveo.
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A desktop application that helps you to manage and watch both online and offline FLVs videos. More than a simple flv player, build your own FLV library and save your compilations in playlists.
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Adobe Media Player allows you to queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing at your convenience.
Design
Adoeb AIR tools that sharpen your design skill.
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Websnapshot allows you type a URL then take a snapshot using one of the three sizing methods; Thumbnail, Browser or fullpage view.
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Shrink O’Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.
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colorPicker is a widget-like AIR application that lets you either choose a “web-safe” color from a color grid or design a color using sliders to adjust the red, green, and blue values of the color.
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Desktop Color Finder lets you search our entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes.
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Font picker allows you to find the right font for the job.
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Icon Generator is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, only 3 step. Pick color, type characters, and save it.
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WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way.
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Color Browser is a simple way to create and organize your favorite color palettes. Sets of colors are easily viewable in a clean interface.
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Photoshop Express Uploader lets you drag and drop photos from your desktop to upload to Photoshop Express.
Microblogging
Adobe AIR applications that allow you to communicate with microblogs easier and faster.
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TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information.
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Alert Thingy allows users to see the data stream from people they follow on FriendFeed, and post new messages directly to the service.
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Life streaming to your desktop. View, rate and comment on what your friends are sharing online, using one simple and easy to use desktop tool.
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MySocial is the newest Twitter/FriendFeed desktop app on the block, although MySocial has previously released a Firefox sidebar addon that offers similar functionality.
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Twhirl connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts.
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Posty simplifies your microblogging. All you have to do is writing the message and clicking a button. Posty will automatically deliver your message to the services you selected.
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Toro is a very simple Twitter client that aims for a speedier Twitter.
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Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability
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bTT lets you receive update from friendfee, post to friendfeed, send and receive tweets with twitter out of one application on your desktop.
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Tweetr lets you send files to your friends, but just dragging any file on to Tweetr. Tweetr will automatically upload your file and when it is done will provide a short url to send to your friends
Social Network
Adobe AIR applications that blend your favourite social networks into your desktop.
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DiggTop is an application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favourite Digg topic or keyword feeds.
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facedesk is an application that, when installed, becomes a stand-alone application to do all your Facebook surfing with.
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Flair is a free, easy to install application that lets you know whenever you’re poked, or someone writes on your wall, or adds you as a friend – without having to constantly check the Facebook website or your email.
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Now all your contacts are in one place wherever you are. There’s no need to create an account and you only have to add details for the other IM networks once.
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The Digg mini client brings the latest news from Digg to your desktop. It also allows you to store the stories to your computer.
Miscellaneous
Other useful desktop Adobe AIR applications.
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Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.
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Apprise lets you read all your news in one place, and share it all in one place, too. With built-in support for over ten different ways to share stories,
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Ora Time and Expense is a small easy-to-use application for tracking and generating timesheets, expense reports, and invoices.
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Timeloc is a desktop widget that keeps track of the time you have spent working on a job or project. It will no longer be a case of guess work as to how much you need to bill your clients or assign to a project
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Doomi is a simple to-do-list application that designed to stay out of your way, be easy to use and look pretty.
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Klok is a tool intended to be used by individuals, who have a need to track the time they spend on projects, tasks or anything else for that matter.
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MiniTask is a FREE, fast and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organising your daily todos more efficiently.
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Agile Agenda is a project scheduling utility focused on allowing project managers to enter data about tasks. The software is capable of dynamically adjusting to changing conditions that occur during a project life cycle.
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Xdrive Desktop Lite allows you to easily upload files and folders right from your hard drive, desktop, USB devices, or removable storage drives directly into your Xdrive web storage.
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AirTalkr is a multi-protocol Instant Messenger that connects to MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ. Not only that, it also has connects to to various Web 2.0 services like Flickr and YouTube.
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Pownce makes it even faster to read and send notes to your friends
- CL Desktop
- Craigslist is huge, and this application just makes sense. It’s easy to use and saves you time with saved searches and the ability to view pictures right from the original list.
- EarthBrowser
- EarthBrowser is a revolutionary new platform for viewing and creating geographically based information.
- ebay Desktop
- eBay Desktop is made for search, bidding, browsing, and watching. It’s all there, with a brand new interface.
- Finetune Desktop
- Finetune Desktop gives you quick access to your custom playlists and will keep track of your favorite music from Finetune.
- Pandora Desktop
- With the Pandora Desktop Application, you can play your Pandora stations right from your desktop – without opening a new browser window.
- Snackr
- Snackr is a RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.
- AIR iPhone
- AIR iPhone is a desktop application created with Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3, it simulates the UI of the iPhone. It has the capabilities to make calls, receive calls, check voicemail, add contacts and even send voice messages.
- Adobe Developer Connection Developer Desktop
- Adobe Developer Connection Developer Desktop (ADC Desktop) is an Adobe AIR application that delivers a number of helpful resources for Developers.
Resources
Resources, tutorials and collections of Adobe AIR applications.
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A collection of Adobe® AIR™ applications out in the wild that the community can update.
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An online community site, built using their own products and targeted to support developers building open source projects for our products and platform.
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A community to share and download Adobe AIR applications with no cost.
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The ultimate resource for enthusiasts of Adobe AIR.
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Adobe AIR Marketplace is a place where AIR developers can publish their Adobe AIR applications for users to download.
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Adobe AIR Tutorials. Articles, resources, tutorials, and downloads.
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Adobe AIR application showcase and resources.
Being a popular online image platform, Flickr has enabled Internet users to manage and share digital photos easily as long as there’s an Internet connection. Flickr is a revolution for photo sharing and management plus it has a huge community of photographers who provide great photos there for the world to see.
However, speaking of its graphics user interface, it seems not really user-friendly in term of viewing and searching photos on Flickr. Flickr is more than a normal image management website. It is a source of creativity, a pilgrimage of natural beauty, a fun and interesting place for inspiration too.
If you are a Flickr regular user like us, we believe you can explore Flickr in a better way with below quality tools which based on Flickr API. Here is 60+ tools to enhance your Flickr experience.
Flickr Downloaders & Uploaders
Tools that enable you to download or upload series of photos to Flickr.
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Flickr Importr is a tool for Windows that allows you to upload images to Flickr and automatically add them to groups and sets. Additionally it can import tags from a variety of third party image applications.
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Flishr is a primer application to Download, Upload and Search photos from one central command console on your PC.
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FlickrFaves is a small utility for downloading high-resolution versions of your Flickr favorites to your harddrive. FlickrFaves is a cross-platform utility written in Java.
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Save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle. This program allows you to download them more easily.
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With Downloadr, you can search, browse and batch download multiple Flickr pictures based on image tag (s), Flickr username, Groups Pools, Flickr user sets or even Interesting Flickr pictures of any particular day.
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Gnickr allows you to manage photos on your Flickr site as if they were local files on your Gnome desktop. It does this by creating a Flickr virtual filesystem.
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UploadrXL is a program to upload one or more images to Flickr and add them immediately to your Sets of Groups.
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Grabbr is a small application to smooth the task of uploading screenshots to Flickr.
You then have the option to, crop, title describe and tag the image before uploading it directly to your account.
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Foldr Monitr is a free tool that runs in the background and watches a selected folder (and optionally subfolders) waiting for you to add photos to it. When photos appear in the folder, Foldr Monitr automatically uploads them to your Flickr account for you.
Flickr Search Engines
Powerful new photo search engines that work with the Flickr API.
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Compfight is a great new tool that uses Flickr’s API to search the database of photos and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails.
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FlickrBabe borned as a satellite application when exploring several web services APIs trying to understand better how they work to use that knowledge in Wipley development.
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Flickr Flipper allows you to search for Flickr photos and also search for photos from specific Flickr users. It uses Papervision to display the photos one at a time and even allows you to download the photo to your computer.
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Flickerstorm is a new way to search through Flickr photos. You can easily search through photos by entering a subject or topic. Flickrstorm will pull up relevant photo thumbnails through which you can scroll.
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Picturesandbox.com uses the Flickr search APIs to return images by all users on Flickr.
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TagGalaxy offers up a novel concept concerning Flickr and tags. The set up, as you can probably guess, is influenced by space. Essentially, Flickr tags are.
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FeelImage is a new image search engine service that lets you type in some feeling words to better find the photos you’re looking for.
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Flickriver is an new way to explore and view Flickr photographs. Flickriver has many additional Flickr photo views – user recent photos, favorites, sets, user and everyone’s photos by tag.
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With Tiltomo, you can play with our Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr. Getting started is easy, search for a tag or click random. Look for an image you like, click one of the Find Similar links under the image.
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Flickrleech is a simple site based on the Flickr API that pulls up as many as 200 Flickr thumbnails at one time.
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The most interesting feature of this experiment is the ability to refine your search by eliminating tags. When you click on a tag, flickr returns that tag’s list of related tags. Findr then compares that list with the previous list(s) of tags and displays the intersection.
Flickr Slide Show & Gallery Makers
Tools that allows you to create a photo gallery or slide show with different presentation methods.
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Slideoo is a new web app for Flickr users that lets you create horizontal streaming slideshows of your Flickr photos. You can specify the albums from which you’d like Slideoo to pull photos, photo width, and the number of photos to be included in the show.
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Flickr AutoDownloadr is a small, freeware Windows application written using the Flickr API and AutoIt. Using it, you can pick any photos from Flickr – yours, your friends’, random strangers’ – and create a slideshow from them, which displays in a fullscreen window.
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Picsviewr provides a wide variety of slideshows (currently 7) for viewing your Flickr photos with more flexibility. Every Flickr user has a slideshow here. There is no need to create an account or configure anything and your preferences are saved.
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flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You’ll receive the HTML embed code in return.
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PictoBrowser is a free web application that displays Flickr images on websites and blogs.
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You and your friends can look at your photos by clicking on page after HTML page or you can immerse yourself in a highly interactive and engaging 3D interface.
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MooPix lets you access your public Flickr photos without doing PHP, Ruby, or Python situps. What you do with it is your perrogative.
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Splashr is an application for Flickr which is actually far more robust and useful than it first appears.
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Flickr Slideshow Generator allows you to generate the HTML necessary to embed a custom Flickr Slideshow in your page or blog.
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Travelr is a free photo gallery viewer that you can put on your own site. Travelr lets you display your Flickr photos geographically on a world map.
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An Ajax image gallery with fade effects for transitioning of images and populated using JSON data.
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Get your favourite Flickr photos in your slideshow – every day fresh and updated!
Interesting Flickr Tools
Explore how Flickr can be interesting when interacts with other Flickr tools.
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FlickrFight is a new Website which helps you to compare the Images. You select the keywords or tags to be contested. The one with the most images on site, wins the fight.
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Retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
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With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr’s most interesting Creative Commons images, and find ones that share the same colours. Choose up to 10 colours from our palette of 120 different shades.
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Flickr Color Selectr allows you to search for images on Flickr based on the primary color within the image.
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ColrPickr uses a color wheel which is used to find Flickr photos on the basis of color. Choose from a set of picture themes, e.g. flowers, graffiti, doors and windows, textures and urban decay, among others, to set your color.
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A free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application.
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Flickrvision is a webapp that displays the newest uploads to the popular photo-sharing service, Flickr. As the globe spins, photos pop up from every continent, featuring landscapes, architecture, people, animals, food, and anything imaginable.
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Flickr Logo Makr allows you to make flickr style logo.
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Spell with Flickr is a fun little program that invites users to type in whatever they want to, then matches each letter of that word with letter pictures straight from Flickr.
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Type in a lyrics and retrieve related photos from Flickr.
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Test your guessing skills and flickr picture choosing skills in this fun twist on pictionary.
- fastr
A flickr game to guess the tag of a photo.
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A sudoku puzzle game using Flickr Photos.
- Tagman Flickr
agMan is a game that combines the classic hangman game with tags. Tags are used to label the subject or category of blog posts, photos and other items on the web.
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Play a memory game with photos from Flickr.To start playing just type a tag and click ‘play’.
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With mosaickr you can create beautiful mosaics from your flickr pictures, and even print them on posters!
Creating a mosaick is easy and it’s free.
Flickr Wallpapers
Find wallpapers in Flickr and bring them to your desktop.
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FlickrWallpaper is a simple desktop wallpaper changer that downloads photos based on tags from flickr. You can specify a set of tags you are interested in. Photos are sorted on interestingness (computed by flickr). No scheduler is included, just a simple application to use for yourself.
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Fleace, the Flickr-Enabled Automatic Changer for Everyone, is a free wallpaper changer that retrieves pictures from Flickr based on topics of your choice.
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A nice, simple Ajax app that will spit out a bunch of photo wallpapers from Flickr’s Wallpapers pool on command. Type to search for wallpapers using keywords of your interest, you will get results as thumbnails in Wallpaper.
Miscellaneous Flickr Tools
Tools that assist you in exploring Flickr.
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Color Hunter is a place to find and make color palettes created from images. When you search for color palettes by tag, ColorHunter.com searches Flickr.com via Flickr’s API for images labeled with the tag you entered. The thumbnails of the Flickr images are used to create a color palette.
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Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs.
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Retrieve original size of any photo on Flickr. GetFlickr will allow you to retrieve original photos from flickr.com using the public API.
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Flickr Finder is a Mac-only application that lets you browse Flickr photos without a browser. The interface is similar to the Mac Finder.
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earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr.
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Preloadr is a neat little tool that offers free photo editing for Flickr. You just log in to Flickr and give Preloadr permission to access your account – you can then choose an image to crop, rotate or flip.
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Flexplore lets you see photos that have been seen before and manages to find photos that matches your tastes and likings.
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Gickr.com lets you instantly create Animated GIF online, free, by grabbing photos from your Flickr.
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Statr for Flickr tracks page views statistics for your Flickr photo stream, using the Flickr API. Graphs are automatically updated on a daily basis and can be linked from external websites.
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PlantWire uses publicly licensed Flickr photos to identify flowers and plants. Currently, their floral database contains over 300 plants and over 6000 images.
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