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    • Flickr as a database?

      I went out on a photo trip yesterday. I’ve been testing the iPhone app GeoLogTag recently. For some reason I simply cannot get my iPhone talking to my MacBook, which makes a lot of the WiFi syncing apps a waste of time. GeoLogTag has an option to geotag photos on Flickr. If you visit this [...]

    • Flickr: Tech Tuesday

      Various photos from my Flickr account.
      Flickr is a deceptively simple website which I still don’t fully understand. The basic premise is simple; it’s a place where you can upload and display photos. It’s the few extras which massively increase its potential for serious projects.
      After uploading a photo you have the options of giving it a [...]

    • Introducing Archaeopix Search

      I’ve been quiet recently as I’ve been working on various things. One of them is now public and may be helpful to educators and bloggers. Tom Goskar and I have put together the site Archaeopix. The front of the site is a clear rip-off homage to Astronomy Picture of the Day. I like that. It’s [...]

    • Photos, Flickr, RSS and Cataloging

      Culture is not a Crime. Photo (cc) Dawn Endico.
      Following the undocumented Technorati feeds, it seems that Flickr also has some useful undocumented feeds. If you want to pull out the latest photos tagged archaeology from Flickr it’s fairly simple, you can just go to the archaeology page and subscribe from there. However playing with the [...]