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Tim Anderson, an employee of Flickr, replied on December 24, 2007 20:34 to the problem "Issue with www100.flickr.mud.yahoo.com" in Flickr:

Hey bsdguru - I checked with the Flickr Ops team and they said it looks to be a transient issue (apparently they weren't seeing any issues with that box).

So not sure that helps. If you still are seeing issues, would you mind sending in a ticket using our Help by Email - http://www.flickr.com/help/contact/

That way we'll be able to track the issue and assign it to an engineer. Thanks.

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tommyp replied on December 07, 2007 06:02 to the question "iphoto plugins" in Flickr:

tim:

i have to say that i've dived into blurb and its really quite good. thanks for the response and the encouragement to give it another try.

tommyp

tommyp replied on December 07, 2007 01:34 to the question "iphoto plugins" in Flickr:

tim:

thanks for the redirect to blurb. i am in the process of using blurb for the first time and finding it a little suboptimal from a UI perspective, which is why i thought i'd try, in parallel the iphoto route. you have some other solid partners with whom i tried to work but found them lacking in creative control. perhaps this is just not quite a mature space yet.

Ted, thanks for the redirect to blurb. that might be super helpful since it looks like i'm going to have to try a little harder...

Ted Grubb replied on December 06, 2007 23:20 to the question "iphoto plugins" in Flickr:

also on satisfaction

http://getsatisfaction.com/blurb

Eric Suesz replied on December 06, 2007 23:17 to the question "iphoto plugins" in Flickr:

Excellent point, Tim. Those third-party apps will only give you back what Flickr has optimized for Flickr. So, the "original" images won't be pulled down; just the more Web-friendly, lo-res images.

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Tim Anderson, an employee of Flickr, replied on December 06, 2007 23:04 to the question "iphoto plugins" in Flickr:

Sorry for the delay - I wrote a response this morning and came back to see if it was useful, but something happened and it wasn't there - hopefully this time it saves.

As Eric mentions - there are probably some 3rd party apps to pull down multiple images at a time, but those are unlikely to give you your original resolution images (which you want/need for a high-quality photo book).

Hopefully you won't take this as a plug - b/c I haven't even made a book through this partner, but we do have a relationship w/ Blurb that will allow you to make books from your collection.

http://www.blurb.com/partner/flickr/

I've never made one myself, but have seen the finished product - they're impressive! You'd have to install their client (they support Mac peeps too) and then make your book - it's not iPhoto, but it's not 400 one-by-one downloads either. And looks like they're offering free shipping to Flickr users over the holidays.

Hope this helps...

Eric Suesz replied on December 06, 2007 17:53 to the question "iphoto plugins" in Flickr:

I've heard that FlickrDown (http://greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm) is a way to do this, but it is a PC app. I'm a Mac guy, so I haven't tried it.

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popastronaut replied on November 04, 2007 21:17 to the question "A feed for just my friends and family" in Flickr:

Doh. I guess it was easier. Thanks Tim.

Tim Anderson, an employee of Flickr, replied on November 04, 2007 20:58 to the question "A feed for just my friends and family" in Flickr:

popastronaut is right - but you should also be able to do this from your friends' photos page on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/

... if you look at the bottom of the page towards the pagination, you'll see options to manage which pictures will be shown on that page. The default is all contacts, but if you click 'Only show photos from your family and friends' and then click the 'Feed' RSS button below that, you should be good to go.

popastronaut replied on November 04, 2007 20:28 to the question "A feed for just my friends and family" in Flickr:

Solved this puzzle myself using the Flickr api. The feed url

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/...

does the trick. Remember to insert your user_id in the string and by user_id, I don't mean your old, familiar Flickr login. I mean the obscure one found by logging in and visiting the following page:

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ex...

This probably should be easier, but thankfully the api documentation doesn't scare me.

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