Archive for September, 2009
Your chance to win a Threadless Tee!
by Flickroom Team on Sep.20, 2009, under Announcements
Ahoy Flickroomers,
It has been some time since we gave away that Flickr pro account to P. J. Taylor (one of our followers on Twitter). Now Flickroom is back with another super-exciting giveaway! All you need to do is to follow Flickroom and tweet a simple message in order to qualify for this giveaway. You stand to win a Threadless Tees Gift Certificate worth $25. This will let you buy a really cool tee from their collection and get it shipped too!
The rules are pretty simple:
1) You need to follow @Flickroom on Twitter
2) You need to tweet the following:
Win a Threadless Tee @Flickroom (the cool app for Flickr users): http://flickroom.org/blog/?p=138
3) Multiple tweets would be counted as a single entry
4) One lucky winner will be picked to receive the certificate in exactly one week from now - Monday (09/28/2009)
That’s it! Start spreading some Flickroom love now!
Update: This contest in now closed. The winner is Sharron Benn - Congratulations to her!
Cheers,
- Flickroom Team
Version 0.20 Beta Now Live!
by Flickroom Team on Sep.14, 2009, under Announcements, Updates
Flickroom Team is back with a new update to provide you an even better Flickr experience! This update addresses the most-wanted feature by our users - Map for geo-tagged photos. Also, you will now be able to use some viewing related keyboard shortcuts. Here is a lowdown of all the new stuff in Version 0.20 Beta [available for download via http://www.flickroom.org/]:
- Maps Support: Now you can see Geo-Tagged photos in photostream view on a map:
- Click on the ‘Map’ button available in the details bar of photostream
- The markers on the map indicate the number of photos for that location
- You can click on a tag to see the photos for that location
- Performance Improvement: You can now browser the photostream faster. Actually, till now, loading a photostream (or your photos or anybody else’s) would cause loading of the profile page also. Now Flickroom loads the profile page only when you actually want it.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Viewing related keyboard shortcuts have been added:
- F5 - Show/Hide the top panel
- F6 - Show/Hide the filmstrip panel
- F7 - Show/Hide the left panel (photo details)
- F8 - Show/Hide the right panel
- Tab - Show/Hide the left and right panels
- Shift+Tab - Show/Hide all the panels
- Application Size: Minimum size of the application has been reduced to 900 x 600 (earlier, this was 1200 x 900). This would allow you to have a better experience on smaller screens (like netbooks and laptops).
- Photo Truncation Issue: Photos used to get truncated in some scenarios while resizing the center panel. This issue has been fixed now.
- UI Improvements and Bug Fixes: Lot of UI polish and fixes as reported by our beta users and found during our internal testing.
Hope you will continue to enjoy Flickroom!
Happy Flickrooming!
-The Flickroom Team
