Reading Radar

I guess everyone who blogs about SL or otherwise knows that Flickr is a great way to go to store your images for your blog. It automagically creates sizes for you, so you can put a smaller version in the blog while having it link to the larger ones, etc. And it makes it easier to manage them and share them as well, compared to uploading them directly to your wordpress blog or whatever flavor of blogging software you happen to use on your server.

If you have an iphone or ipod touch, I’d like to toss another cool flickr related fact your way, and that is that there exists a really fun and handy flickr photo app for you called Mobile Fotos that you owe it to yourself to check out. It’s $2.99, not quite free, but it’s worth the three bones, IMO.

Mobile Fotos has all the standard flickr browsing tools you could want - your own photostream, all your contacts, search, keywords, groups… the whole 9. Plus it also lets you upload pictures from your iphone or ipod touch to your flickr account, setting the title, description, tags, set, etc. For the iphone, with a built in camera, this is obviously very cool, but even for the ipod touch it comes in handy. I took screenshots of mobile fotos and uploaded them to flickr right from the ipod. Check it out.

On the left is the list of some of my flickr sets I used to categorize things, as viewed in Mobile Fotos, and on the right is a screen of photos from the Second Life Ancient Japan group. Naturally you can tap a photo to see it full screen and get more info about it.

Below left is my contact list, and below right is what I see after tapping on Arminasx Saiman’s name in the list.

On the left below, I’m looking at a list of tags used in my photos, and then on the right is the upload screen as I’m preparing to upload one of the pictures used for this blog post.

The cool thing about uploads is that, while there’s no way to batch info edit to prepare to upload, you can do each photo individually, and then it will hold them to upload them in the background, while you do other stuff in Mobile Fotos, or you can then tell it, ok, upload all the queued photos now, please.

It’s a cool little app for $3, I think. Now I just need to find a blogging app for the ipod touch that has flickr integration. I’m currently using the Wordpress app which only handles images that are already uploaded to your blog in the normal location that Wordpress uploads to.