iPad Photo App: flickr Photos
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 6:43PM | Glyn Evans *** iPad Only ***
Description from the AppStore: flickr Photos makes it easy to view and download yours and your contacts' flickr photos on your iPad. View photos full screen in a beautiful, elegant interface, quickly switching between yours or your contacts' photos and photosets. Download photos one at a time or a bunch at once so that you can have your favorite photos with you wherever you are.
Note: You must have a flickr account to use this application.
AppStore Link: flickr Photos - Price £1.79/$2.99
Please note: this app is not yet available to purchase, but as soon as it become live in the AppStore I will update this post with the link.
Editors comments: With the iPad only days away, this is the first photo app to be officially announced exclusively for the iPad.
Reader Comments (4)
Wow, this looks incredibly cool and is making me want an iPad very, very badly!! :) Also, is this app by Flickr itself or someone else?
I think there needs to be a qualifier in the description of this app, because for those of us on Flickr with all rights reserved on our photography, no one is allowed to download our photos.
I wonder Deborah if it is true 'saving' to the photos app, or if you can bookmark favorites but not store the file locally. DRM for web is a pretty interesting issue... As a developer, if I've retrieved an image from the server, it's theoretically mine to do whatever I want with it, as far as I know there isn't any provision in the SDK for DRM'd images.
Chromocam, any downloaded photo is not yours to do with as you like.
U.S. copyright laws: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html
specifically:
Is it legal to download works from peer-to-peer networks and if not, what is the penalty for doing so?
Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages up to $30,000 for each work infringed and, if willful infringement is proven by the copyright owner, that amount may be increased up to $150,000 for each work infringed. In addition, an infringer of a work may also be liable for the attorney's fees incurred by the copyright owner to enforce his or her rights.