Storage has become a lot cheaper in recent years. Still, most services that you find online do not offer unlimited storage, and those that do are often not the most trustworthy when it comes to holding their end of the bargain. Photo hosting is one of the most popular online services on today’s Internet. The [...]

Categories: Google

One problem with that many popular sites out there on the Internet is that of data redundancy. Facebook users who also have a Flickr account had that problem in the past. If they wanted to post photos hosted at Flickr on their Facebook wall they had to either upload the photos a second time or [...]

Categories: Facebook, Yahoo

Flickr is one of the most popular photo hosting services on the Internet with thousands of photos uploaded every minute. Some companies, organizations and networks have decided to block Flickr due to its popularity to prevent their employees from accessing Flickr in those networks during work time. There are basically two options to access Flickr [...]

Categories: The Web

Google Picasa offers online photo hosting capabilities in the form of Picasa Web Albums. Picasa users can upload photos from their local computer systems to the photo hosting servers that can then be shared with friends, family or even everyone by setting the viewing rights to public. Even guests are then able to view and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Just a few days ago we reviewed the Windows Explorer plugin Windows Live Skydrive Explorer which allowed Windows Live users to access their Skydrive files in Windows Explorer. The plugin made it more comfortable to work with the files that were hosted at Microsoft’s online storage service. Flickr Drive Shell is a similar plugin for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most photos that are uploaded to Flickr are available in various sizes at the photo hosting service ranging from the original photo resolution down to medium, small and thumbnail copies of that photo. Users who upload photos can make the decision to share all available sizes of the photo with other Flickr users or only [...]

Categories: The Web

Third party software programs that require login credentials to work are often the cause for security concerns. No one likes to hand out username and password to important accounts. That’s why official software programs are most of the time the better solution for users who want to use software to access web services. Flickr for [...]

Categories: Mac, Software, Windows

One of the latest search engine trends seems to be search controls for refining searches. Google added some advanced search controls not long ago to Google Search and Google Image Search. Now the photo hosting site Flickr redesigns the search results page to provide users with additional information and controls. The Flickr Search results now [...]

Categories: The Web

Flickr is probably the most popular photo hosting and sharing on the Internet with thousands of new photos posted to the site every minute. It is great for discovering photos and locations in the world, meeting people and sharing experiences. One thing that many users do not know is that it is also possible to [...]

Categories: Online Services