Nautilus Flickr Uploader [Linux]

Nautilus Flickr Uploader is a simple GUI for uploading pictures to your Flickr account using the Nautilus file browser. This is a simple task but something which two well known (well, more or less) Linux photo managers fail to do (see gThumb or Shotwell - but they have PicasaWeb support in the latest dev builds).

Unfortunately the latest version is not available for Ubuntu, but being such a simple application, you won't miss too much if you install an older version. To install it in Ubuntu, copy / paste the commands below in a terminal:

wget http://www.usebox.net/jjm/nautilus-flickr-uploader/deb/nautilus-flickr-uploader_0.03-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i nautilus-flickr-uploader_0.03-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

The first command will download the .deb package, the second one will install it and the last one will solve all the dependencies (it requires libxml-parser-lite-tree-perl and all of it's dependencies to work).
Finally, to get it working, restart nautilus:

nautilus -q

Then, right click one ore more pictures and select Open With > Upload pictures to Flickr.

If you don't use Ubuntu, visit Nautilus Flickr Uploader website for Fedora rpms as well as the source code.

[thanks to Nico for his post!]

Backupify: Free, Unlimited Accounts Until January 31, 2010

Backupify backs up all your online accounts (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs, Zoho, Photobucket, Wordpress, Blogger and so on) to the cloud, normally for a nominal fee, but until January 31, 2010, all Backupify accounts will be free with unlimited storage.

After this period, the service will be paid again, but anyone signing up for an accout until January 31 will have an forever-unlimited free account.

[via lifehacker]

Flickr Adds People Tagging

If you use Facebook, you’re surely familiar with the option to tag the people in your photos. The feature both identifies them to viewers of the picture and lets them know a photo that includes them has been posted on the site.

Today, Flickr added a people tagging option as well:

We’ve launched People in Photos, a new feature that will help put a face to the Flickrverse and enable you to highlight members that you’ve photographed in a whole new way. People in Photos lets you add a member to a photo, find photos of people you know, and manage which photos you’re in. Huzzah!

(from the Flickr blog)

To add someone to a photo, you can either type in the member’s name, much like you’d add a tag, or you can draw a face boundary on the photo, as with a note. People in Photos has been wired into your your Recent Activity, so you’ll always be up to date with who’s added you to a photo or added other members to your photos.

People can opt in and out of the tagging, and unlike on Facebook, once you have opted out of a photo, no one can head back in after the fact and add you back in.

Flickr of course has more than one major hurdle to jump over, namely that you need to be in someones Flickr contact list to be tagged in an image. This will lead to an expansion of the average size of a Flickr contact list, and of course to the overall Flickr userbase.

Wally: Best Automatic Wallpaper Changer Application I've Seen [Windows, Linux, Mac OSX]

We wrote about different automatic wallpaper changer applications either for Windows, Linux and / or Mac OSX but Wally is special. Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa and Smugmug images. Not only that, but it also works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Ubuntu users will be glad to know that it even comes with pre-build .deb packages for both 32 and 64bit versions (download link at the end of the post).

Wally features:

· History support
· Many wallpaper layouts available on all platforms
· EXIF data available over picture and in system tray tooltip
· Save downloaded photos
· Run-time folder change detection in "Folder" mode
· Proxy support
· It supports KDE3, KDE4, Gnome, XFCE4, Fluxbox, Blackbox, FVWM (unstable), WindowMaker window managers.


I must say, this seems the best wallpaper changer application I used. After running Wally (I only tested it in Ubuntu Linux so far), it sits in your notification area and you can access it's settings via right-click:

From it's settings you can choose to "Switch background on play" and then just click "Play" on it's notification area icon (Systray for Windows) or Next / Previous photo if you don't like your current wallpaper. Obviously, this can be done automatically without any input from your side, by entering a desired interval to switch wallpapers.

Other interesting features include the option to select the position of the photos, border, only use landscape oriented photos and add the photo info to the wallpaper.

Download Wally | via Giggle Computer (thanks phaoloo!)

Other wallpaper changer application we covered on Web Upd8:

-Windows:

• Wallperizer
• WallPapa
• Wallpaper Juggler

-Linux:

• Wallpaper Application Based on the Weather, Moon Phase, Time of Day
• Desktop Drapes

Facebook Album Downloader Application: Fotobounce

Fotobounce is a desktop application that currently runs on Windows XP and Vista which helps you manage photos in your Facebook and Flickr accounts right from the desktop. You can download old photos, upload new ones to the web or simply view your existing photo albums as a slideshow without downloading them locally.

Fotobounce features:

* Identify and tag family & friends
* Built in face recognition
* Organize your photos into albums
* Facebook and Flickr integration
* View photos from your mobile device
* Easy-to-use drag & drop interface


Fotobounce also includes built-in face recognition (similar to what you have in Google’s Picasa Albums) so you can quickly tag photos on the desktop and these people tags will be preserved even when the photos are uploaded on to Facebook.

Download Fotobounce | via labnol

Gwibber 2.0 Prototype Released

Gwibber is an open source microblogging framework and desktop client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK+. The Gwibber backend is a stand-alone daemon that manages updates and retrieves stream data from social networks.

Gwibber currently has support for the following services:

* Twitter
* Identi.ca/Laconi.ca
* FriendFeed
* Facebook
* Jaiku
* Digg
* Flickr
* BrightKite
* Qaiku
* OpenCollaboration (Experimental)

New in version 2.0:

-simple account configuration wizard
-a drop down menu replaces the previous versions tab bar for navigating to replies, etc (in normal mode)
-support for more accounts
-many other additions, improvements and bug fixes

The latest version of Gwibber, 2.0 prototype, is only available in the Gwibber daily PPA. To install it in Ubuntu, open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

You can replace "jaunty" with your Ubuntu version.

Then add the GPG key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 72D340A3

And finally, you can install Gwibber:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gwibber

If you have an older version of Gwibber installed, instead of the above command, run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon Recent Updates Widget

BloggyBits is a handy tool to easily create a widget with your stream from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, RSS feeds.

Just choose some or all services and customize them with your user name, enter the title, generate and download the code to insert into a web page (see the live example above).

The social widget works in Flash and within the code you can change the size but not the colors.

BloggyBits is a free service that does not require registration. If you leave your email, however, you will receive a URL to make some changes.