Flickroom

17th February - It was a big day for Flickroom team! Thanks to Cris Stoddard of Flickr team for featuring Flickroom on the Flickr official blog. You can find the post here: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/02/17/flickroom-chat-browse-upload-share/

Excerpt below:

Flickroom is an application that brings Flickr to your desktop, allowing you to browse and search photographs of yours, your contacts, and the Flickrverse. Your photos never looked better against a black background! Once you authenticate Flickroom to your account, you can not only manage your own content but you can also leave comments on great photos or make them your favorites.

But one of the neatest things about Flickroom is that you can chat, live, with other Flickr members while you’re viewing fantastic content!

There’s more, too. This application allows you to upload photos to your photostream. You can tag and set permissions on your photos as well as add them to sets and to groups.

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Thank you for all your support and feedback dear Flickroomers! You rock!

-Flickroom Team

Hello everyone! Flickroom team released a minor update with the following features/fixes [available for download via http://www.flickroom.org/]:

Hope you will continue to enjoy Flickroom!

Happy Flickrooming!

-The Flickroom Team

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You didn’t think it was all quiet in here inside the Flickroom headquarters? Well, we have been burning the midnight oil to get the next update in your hands and here it is!

Read on to find out the new and exciting additions in the 0.10 update:

• Support for selection of tags, multiple sets and groups while editing metadata of a photo: You can now choose amongst your existing tags or add your picture to multiple sets and groups while/after uploading the photo to your stream
• Support for Filmstrip view for recent uploads of Contacts: You can now view the recent uploads of your contacts as a filmstrip just as you view your own photostream. To do so:
  • You can go to Contacts section and click on “See Recent Uploads of Contacts” button at the bottom left
  • You can click on “Recent Uploads of Contacts” section in the right panel of the application and then click on the “Show Filmstrip view”.  This will open up a new window for you to view the recent uploads as a filmstrip
• Support for Previous/Next views: You can now go back and forward in an easier manner by clicking on the icons at the centre of the application bar at the top
• Using user’s default browser (instead of an embedded one) for logging in into Flickr:This has been done to address any security concerns about not using the native browser window for authorization
• Clicking on chat buddy opens up his/her photostream: You can now directly click on any user online in the chatroom (Roster) to be taken to his/her photostream
• Clicking on a photo toggles the details (comments) panel: Clicking on any photo now shows/hides the Details panel for added convenience
• Fixes for application resizing issues: Application resizing has been smoothened to cater to various screen sizes
• UI enhancements and bug fixes: Several miscellaneous UI enhancements and bug fixes as reported by users and found during internal testing have been taken care of in this update

Hope you will continue to enjoy Flickroom!

Happy Flickrooming!

-The Flickroom Team

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Thank you, Thank you, and Thank you for the overwhelming response to Flickroom. We are here with our very first update that has some exciting new features, lots of UI polishing and fixes based on the feedback received so far.

Here’s a lowdown on what is new in this update:

• Multiple picture upload: We heard ya! You can now upload multiple images by a simple drag-and-drop operation or via the “Browse” button in the new Upload Manager. You can add the images directly to your photo-stream or into a set.
• Chatroom: Yes, you read that right! You can now chat with any Flickr user who is logged in via Flickroom thus enabling you to collaborate with them in real-time.
• Better Login Experience: The login screen has been revamped to provide a more seamless and intuitive login experience.
• Settings Panel: You can now use the newly-added Settings option to set the background color, image-size, and default view as per your preference. These preferences will be sticky and remembered by Flickroom even after you logout and login again.
• Edit Image Information: You can now edit your picture information including title and description. Additionally, you can now add new tags and add your images to a group or a set.
• Delete Image: You can now delete any image from within the application.
• UI enhancements: Numerous UI enhancements including improved icons and typography throughout the application, ability to show more than twenty contacts per page.
• Bug fixes: Miscellaneous issues found during internal testing as well as those reported by our users have been addressed in this update.

For a sneak-peek of the above-mentioned features, please visit: http://www.flickroom.org/beta/Features.html

We are really excited about this update and hope you will have even more fun playing with it!

Happy Flickrooming!

-The Flickroom Team

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1. How to login to Flickroom?
2. How to upload a photo?
3. How to comment on a photo?
4. How to see comments and other details of a photo?
5. How to check out recent uploads of your contacts?
6. How to make use of settings panel?
7. How to change the background of a photo?
8. How to improve the performance on a slow network?
9. How to tweet about a photo?
10. How to add a photo to a set or a group?
11. How to see who else is using Flickroom?
12. How to see photo stream of a contact?
13. How to search photos or Flickr users?
14. How to go back to a contact or your page?

1. How to login to Flickroom?

For the first time you are logging into Flickroom, you need to complete these four easy steps:

1. Make sure that you have a Flickr/Yahoo account. If not, you can click on the button “No, Create one for me” and then fill in the required details in the form that gets loaded.
2. Next, you need to login to your Flickr account. Why? Because you need to authorize Flickroom application to use your Flickr account – and for that you need to login to Flickr first.
3. Click on “Yes. Do it now” to authorize Flickroom. In the Flickr page that is seen below, you need to click on the “Next” button below the text that says: “If you arrived at this page because you specifically asked Flickroom to connect to your Flickr account, click here:” After that, click on “OK, I’LL AUTHORIZE IT”.
4. This is the last and easiest of all. Just click on “Yes, now get me in” and you are DONE.

For all successive launches of Flickroom, you need not perform the above steps. Flickroom caches all the data for you, unless you logout of the application (instead of simply closing it).

2. How to upload a photo?

There are three ways in which you can upload your photos using Flickroom:

1. Open your photo stream in Flickroom and drag photos from your desktop into the application.
2. Open any of your sets and drag photos from your desktop. This will upload the photos and also add them to that particular set.
3. Open the upload manager (using the upload icon at the top ) and click on the Browse button there. Select photos in the file chooser dialog and they will be uploaded.

After the photos are uploaded, you can edit their title, description, tags by clicking on the ‘Edit Photo Details’ in the upload manager and then clicking on ‘Edit’ button in photo viewer.

3. How to comment on a photo?

Click on the comment button and write your comment in the newly opened dialog. Basic text formatting options like Bold, Italics, and Underline and adding Hyperlinks is provided in this dialog box. Similarly, you can add notes as well by clicking on the note button tool.

4. How to see comments and other details of a photo?

Click on ‘Details’ button available in photo viewer. It will open up a panel which contains description, comments, tags, EXIF data of that photo.

5. How to check out recent uploads of your contacts?

Click on the Activity icon in the top navigation bar and then click open the “Recent uploads of contacts” section in the right panel. You can click on the thumbnails to pop open the images in a separate window. You also have an option of making the comment author’s photo visible by selecting the checkbox. This allows you to click on the avatar and set the room for that user.

6. How to make use of Settings Panel?

Settings panel provides a set of preferences that you can save for your desired viewing experience. It contains options for photo background, photo’s default size, chatroom notifications etc. Any values that you set are available across your login sessions.

7. How to change the background of photo?

There is ‘Change background color’ button available in the photo viewer. To keep the experience simple, it only provides two options – Gray and Black background. You just need to click on the small color button in the photo viewer’s toolbar.

8. How to improve the performance on a slow network?

By default the photo viewer downloads the ‘Large’ size of photos. This might result in sub-optimal experience if you are on a slow network. A simple solution here is to change the default size of the image that is shown. You can do this by choosing the image size from the drop-down in the photo viewer or from the settings panel.

9. How to tweet about a photo?

Click on the twitter icon (‘t’) provided on the photo viewer’s toolbar and it will open up a Tweet dialog. By default the photo url is included and you just need to input your Twitter credentials to tweet about the photo.

10. How to add a photo to a set or a group?

Click on the edit button available in the photo viewer’s toolbar and it will open up an edit dialog using which you can edit title, description, tags of the photo. Also, you can add that photo to a set or a group you like.

11. How to see who else is using Flickroom?

Click on the chat icon on the top navigation bar. It will open up Flickroom’s chatroom which also contains a list (Roster) of all the Flickroom users who are currently logged in.

12. How to see photo stream of a contact?

Click on ‘Contacts’ button and then click on the contact whose photo stream you want to see. This will set the room for that particular user – i.e. Photostream, Sets, Contacts, Groups and Explore pages would show content for that user.

13. How to search photos or Flickr users?

This can be easily done by clicking on the search icon in the top navigation bar. Presently the search available is very basic – you can search for user with either their email addresses or their Flickr usernames.

14. How to go back to a contact or your page?

There is drop down icon shown immediately after the name of the Flickroom user (top left). Clicking on that will show up all the users that you have visited till now – switch to any of them is pretty straight-forward.

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What is Flickroom?

Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich and engaging browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs just come alive and everyone can see them as they are meant to be seen – Large on Black. Yes, no more visiting the third-party sites to convert each pic individually to your preferred choice of size and background. Flickroom provides this and much more by default! You can now receive instant notifications for any activity on your photostream and you can safely say goodbye to hitting that refresh button on your browser! You can also comment, favourite, add notes and view all information associated with an image from within the app. What’s more, you can even tweet about your latest uploads directly from the application! Download Flickroom now and experience Flickr like never before!

Why Flickroom?

1) Infinitely better user experience with the black background eliminating the need for each individual image to be LOBified.

2) Pop-up notifications about activity on your photo stream ensuring you don’t have to constantly refresh your browser!

3) Ability to easily check out latest  uploads from your contacts

4) Ability to comment, favourite, add notes straight from the app UI

5) Ability to view comments, tags, EXIF data and save photos on disk

6) Ability to tweet about your photographs on Twitter directly from the application (image URL is automatically in TinyURL format)

7) See which of your photos are in Flickr Explore

8.) Search in photographs of current user or all Flickr users

Install Flickroom:

Flickroom is free! Start downloading now. Please keep in mind that it is called Beta for a reason! And you may experience bugs and other issues while using the app. Please feel free to send us your feedback on feedback@flickroom.org and help us serve you better!