Hacking Flickr
I’m probably the last guy to figure out this trick, but it’s worth pointing out anyway. (in case you don’t know, Flickr is a photo sharing site on steroids)
I usually take a bunch of pictures on my camera over a period of days, then dump them into Flickr all at once. The problem I often run into is that I end up with photos mixed in there that need to be rotated or deleted. Sometimes I do this on my computer before uploading, but usually I forget and then notice them when they’re already uploaded. I usually notice them when I’m adding tags in batch mode. Previously, because I’m dumb, I would notice something that needed to be deleted and I’d flip back out of batch edit and go find the individual photo and delete it, then go back into batch edit mode. That’s annoying. Here’s the simple solution…
When you’re in batch edit mode (I usually get there by going to the calendar link on the right side and selecting all the photos I’ve uploaded that day) and you notice a picture that should be deleted or rotated, just tag it with ‘delete’ or ‘rotate’. When you’re done tagging all your photos, search for the ‘rotate’ tag and rotate those photos (remember to remove the tag when you’re done).
You can also search for the ‘delete’ tag and then batch delete them all by selecting the ‘edit this page as a batch’ link at the top of the search results, then going to the Batch Operations tab and deleting them all at once.
Great hack, thanks a lot. Sometimes it’s so easy.
You can get Picasa to grab all your photos & process them there (in seconds) and then just email them to flickr (taking a couple of seconds more)
Actually, you can even get Flickr to automatically rotate these photos for you, using the supplemental information your digital camera adds to each image. Simply go to your account page and look for the link that says “auto-rotate;” you have the option of having it either on or off.
Dude, you totally missed a chance for a clever blog post title. “Flickr Hackr!”
@fsl: Yeah, sometimes I do that…when I remember. I’m usually too lazy to scroll through 100 pictures looking for deletable ones, etc
@Jason: Nice tip…going over to flip the switch right now!
@Ben: Doh! [slaps head]
Actually, I guess the best one woulda been Slackr Flickr Hackr.
Hi Bren
This off-topic but I hope you guys forgive me for butting in: I’m referring to your post “The year of the switch” where you talk about switching from TypePad to WP or MT. I want to take my blog from my TP Pro account to MT 3.2 and am obviously very concerned to get this right. Yahoo hosting seems the best option (currently I am using 170Gb per month bandwidth, so I’m covered with their 200Gb/400Gb option). I would like to ask you whether you expect problems for me in the following 4 points:
(1) loosing ranks at Google and Goole Images, Technorati etc.; i.e. is it good enough to keep the identical URL to avoid any such problems–it should be possible to use the same URL as I have my own domain registered with PairNIC, right?
(2) I can’t have any of my perma-links broken – my readers and daily Google searches constantly pull up any of my 188 posts since I started my blog last year. Does MT 3.2 cater for that (there’s precious little on that in their manual).
(3) I love my design and layout just as it is. Can I simply cut-and-paste the TypePad style sheet into MT and will it look and ‘feel’ just the same?
(4) I cannot lose any of the comments and trackbacks – this is critical to me. Is this a problem? For instance, both commenters and I myself have often included individual comment-permalinks in the text. Will all of that be maintained?
Finally, I love your notification for followup commts via email as well as the “Subscribe without commenting” feature. Is that difficult to do in MT?
OK – that’s way too many questions already, but I hope you can understand and excuse my anxiety. I’d really apreciate your thoughts.
Alexandra, no worries. I’ll give you my quick answer here, but we can follow up on email.
Yahoo is probably your best bet. Since TP and MT are both Six Apart products, you should have few problems. You own your domain and your permalinks reflect that so your search engine ranking shouldn’t take a hit. Also, you shouldn’t have any trouble with losing comments or permalinks.
My big advice to you: set up a test blog first, before you go live with your switch. Also, be sure to check in with the MT plugin community to see what kind of doodads you can get for your blog…
Thanks so much. I’ll email you.
PS: the email alert feature is a must have–just too cool!