New release of Flickr Addict for the Palm Pre

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Version 0.2 of both Flickr Addict and Flickr Addict Lite have been released on the Palm App Catalog, just three hours or so after submission, so kudos to Palm!  This release is an incremental improvement mostly, but it contains a number of features that a lot of people asked for:

  • Manual sizing of wallpapers.  You can now pinch to zoom the image in order to manually select just a portion of the photo to use as a wallpaper.
  • Better randomization of images.
  • More options on how often images are changed.   Some people felt that 5 minutes was too short, and one hour too long, so you can now change the wallpaper every 5, 15,  and 30 minutes, and every 1, 6 or 24 hours.
  • More information on the currently displayed image.  You’ll see a new button at the bottom of the screen when viewing a full screen photo.  Clicking it shows the title of the photo and the person who took it.

It also includes some bug fixes, and improvements to downloads to make them go faster.

The big news for  users of the free Flickr Addict Lite app is that this release gives you two days use of the full app features, before returning to Lite mode, so you get to see what all the fuss is about 😉

See the demo of the latest version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUckwtvF6U

Published by Shane O'Sullivan

I am a software engineer and manager from Ireland. I spent 7 years working in Ireland from 2003 – 2010, then ten years in Silicon Valley from 2010 to 2020. In California I spent about 6.5 years at Facebook Engineering, the last three of which I was an engineering manager in the Ads organisation focusing on customer facing products for creating and managing ads. At Stripe I built the Developer Productivity organisation, with teams that were responsible for the use of the Ruby language, testing infrastructure, documentation, developer tooling (e.g. IDE integrations) and more. At Promise, I was Head of Engineering from 2018 – 2020, responsible for building the first few iterations of our products, hiring for all product roles, meeting with clients and investors, and anything else needed to get a tiny startup bootstrapped and successful. Now I’m back in Ireland, working on my next company. Coming soon (as of early 2023!). This blog contains my various musings on all things technical/interesting on the interweb and beyond.

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13 thoughts on “New release of Flickr Addict for the Palm Pre”

  2. Laura,

    Fortunately for me, you are wrong. It’s nowhere near iPhone numbers, but being a big fish in a small pond is working well for me.

    Also, why do you care? This is possibly the most pointless commment I’ve seen short of spam trying to sell me viagra.

    Shane

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  3. What a bizarro post from Laura.

    Anyways, thank you for this new release. I notice you fixed the little problem I had. 🙂 I also notice that the randomization IS better so I am happy about that too.

    I have some generic viagra. CHEEP! lol

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  6. Thank you for the update! The randomization does seem better – on my first download of pictures I got a much better selection from my Flickr account (a wider variety from across my photo sets). I love Flickr Addict, and am always showing it off.

    –Tom

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  9. Tap the image icon to view the picture, then tap the “i” information icon at the bottom. This gives you the option of either blocking that photo or all photos from that user.

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