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Fotoviewr Revisited

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A little more than a week ago I did a post about a Flickr app called Fotoviewr. Today they left me a comment to let me know it had been updated. I don't think they took too kindly to my 'review'...!

FotoViewr is now embeddable and we've also got some new visual styles. Please check it out and hopefully this time it won't be so "flawed and not even worth mentioning."

Ok maybe saying it was flawed was a bit mean, but it just didn't do what I wanted it to do - be embeddable. But my point was valid. If you couldn't embed it in a blog, it's just yet another fancy Flickr toy that you'll play with once for about 2 minutes and never return to again. In my defense I did mention how slick it was, and how close it was to being useful. And that it might stop being pointless!

And it is now embeddable! And no longer pointless, and that earns it a place in my Photo bookmark section. Now, if they can just add one more feature, to allow me to change the colour of the background. I would much prefer it to be white to match the background colour of my blog. Integration and all that!

FotoViewr

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Yet another Flickr app. Yet another idea with potential that is sadly so flawed it's not worth mentioning. For the moment anyway. And yet I'm mentioning it, it being FotoViewr. You see, I have long sought a decent way of presenting slideshows of my Flickr sets on my blog. Without silly giant blue stars, advertising, big splash banners on the bottom, or any of the other crap. There is a way to present Flickr's own slideshow on a blog, but it still looks too....blah!

FotoViewr is so close. It produces slideshows in four different ways, including a copy of Apple's Coverflow. It's so slick. If I could just customise the background colour it would be perfect. And then, if they actually enabled embedding so you could actually put in on a blog, that would be a killer! But they don't. Yet. Which is why it's pointless. At the moment....


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A FotoViewr Presentation