Flickr is Great! I’ve recently started using Flickr more than before. Sure, Flickr was always there when you wanted to find a good photo of a bird or someone dancing or simply just wanted to spend a couple of boring hours at the office browsing through photos of only-god-knows-what. These last few weeks however, I’ve actually started using Flickr in a more active fashion, even uploaded a couple of photos myself.
As such, I have been looking around for useful tools and hacks to enhance both the usefulness and effectiveness of Flickr. I found there are two different aspects when it comes to enhancing Flickr.
One aspect is for The Viewer – when you are watching a photo or browsing through a photographers photos, you want to make it as pleasant and effective as possible – or if you are searching for a specific photo (Flickr has over 2 billion photos uploaded!) any help to overcome the shortcomings of Flickr’s built-in search capabilities would be not only welcomed but also very appreciated.
The other aspect is for The Active User – a photographer who uploads photos and takes part in the community that is Flickr, with favorites and comments and groups and discussions. So what I did was simply divide this list of Flickr Hacks in to the two categories: For Viewing and For Active Users.
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IDG Sweden recently ran an article titled Här är de 20 bästa gratisprogrammen (The 20 best freeware programs). I thought I would expand a little bit on that and try to put together a useful list of totally free software, freeware, that I use or would use or could use on my own Windows XP computer. Proof, once and for all, that you don’t need to run out and spend thousands of dollars on software to get the functionality that you need. Proof, once and for all, that you don’t need to run off to Pirate Bay to download cracked software to get the functionality that you want.
This list of freeware is based on my needs. It won’t, for instance, feature any free C# editors, since I don’t code in C#. It will however feature some HTML, XHTML and CSS editors since I do some coding in that.
Also, for a program to be featured on this list, it will have to be totally free from any fees and, optionally but not mandatory, free from ads. This means that shareware, free trials and the likes don’t qualify since I either have to stop using the program or have to start paying fees to keep using the program. Donationware is ok, as long as it is optional and not mandatory to donate. Likewise Ad-supported software is ok as long as it is done with some common sense and respect for the user.
Enough already! On with the list! 
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This post is for mom. She owns a cat. To help her wrap Christmas presents this year, here is, in Swedish, a list of 42 easy steps to wrapping presents – with a cat:
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