Saturday, February 10, 2007

Really Cool Flickr Tool

I was browsing The Great Flickr Tools Collection tonight and saw something that I've obviously overlooked in the past. I think this may be the coolest online Flickr application I've ever used.

Findr

What is it? It's a Flash application that uses Flickr tags to display many photos on one page. The really cool thing is that it uses related tags to narrow the search - you enter in an initial tag and then select from a list of other tags to define what you want to see. For example, I entered in the tag "city," which showed me thousands and thousands of photos tagged as such. A list also popped up with many different related tags, and I selected "lights" from that. The list for that tag combination included "Manhattan," which I selected to see only photos of lights in Manhattan!

The only thing I don't like is that you can't define your own related tags; you have to select from the list you're given. I'm sure there are creative ways around that with tag searching, and of course you can also search on Flickr itself.

Once you've selected your wanted tags, 99 very small thumbnails appear at the top right of the page. When you hover over a photo, you see a larger version. Click on it, and you see an even larger version in the lower right corner. From there, you can click a button that takes you to the photo's page! You can also view everything as a slideshow, which works just as the normal Flickr slideshows do.

I've had a blast exploring photos on Findr, and I hope you all do too.

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