Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface. Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what's possible. Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to: <ul>
<li>Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone</li>
<li>Mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes</li>
<li>Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too</li>
<li>Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver</li>
<li>Geotag your photos and map your contacts</li>
<li>Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet</li>
<li>Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags</li>
<li>Build a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photos</li>
<li>Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS</li>
<li>Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications</li>
</ul>

Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online

Arts & Photography

Bumgardner, Jim

Bausch, Paul

Photography & Video

O'Reilly Media

Solvers will be over the moon about this huge collection of all-new logic puzzles! Star Battle is a growingly popular logic puzzle that, like sudoku, is simple to understand but offers a great deal of complexity and variety. In Star Battle, a 10x10 grid is divided into 10 irregular regions of different sizes. Each row, column, and region contain exactly two stars--and no stars in the grid may touch each other, even diagonally. This book contains a whopping 300 Star Battle puzzles, including short sections with one-star puzzles (as a warmup) and three-star puzzles (for an extra challenge). Author Jim Bumgardner also provides a helpful how-to-solve introduction, explaining the rules and some of the basic solving strategies.

Star Battle Puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Puzzlewright

Kaleidoscope Logic Puzzles: A Mesmerizing Mix of Logic and Art

Combine sudoku and a little math with the endless shapes, sizes, and difficulty levels of a crossword puzzle and you have the exciting game of kakuro. Already huge in Japan and taking England by storm, kakuro is the latest game craze to reach America, and Simple Kakuro is designed specifically for these new players. The book's 214 beginner puzzles are perfect for learning the game, honing one's skills, or just enjoying a few minutes of stimulating play any time, any place. The puzzles vary in size and difficulty, starting with super-easy puzzles and progressing to more challenging puzzles as the player's skill level increases. Simple Kakuro explains the rules and shows step-by-step how to solve kakuro grids. But don’t be fooled. Although kakuro is incredibly easy to understand and takes only minutes to learn, it offers endless challenges and hours of addictive fun.

Simple Kakuro: 214 Beginner Puzzles

Ulysses Press

Kakuro took the brain-teasing fun of sudoku to the next level by adding math and a crossword puzzle grid. Now, Beat the Clock Kakuro takes kakuro itself to the next level by challenging game players with a time goal for each puzzle. Players can truly test their skills by seeing how their times rank them ? from beginner to master. The added time challenge in Beat the Clock Kakuro will help players improve their concentration and solving abilities as they push themselves to achieve lower and lower times on their way to becoming masters.

Beat the Clock Kakuro: 214 Easy to Hard Puzzles with Target Time Limits

From the creator of the most popular free printable puzzle website on the Internet, Krazydad, here are 300 insanely addictive Suguru puzzles for you to solve.Each puzzle is printed with an oversized 30 point san-serif font to aid your failing eyesight, and on glorious plain paper that'll handle copious erasing and rewriting.This puzzle collection is all-new, created by the author, and does not appear in other books or online. You'll also find a pithy introduction and a remarkably clear and patient tutorial, just in case you need it.

Krazydad Easy Suguru Volume 1: 300 Insanely Addicting Puzzles

Tiny Lobster

Krazydad Challenging Suguru Volume 1: 300 Insanely Addicting Puzzles

Krazydad Easy Suguru Volume 2: 300 Insanely Addicting Puzzles

Krazydad Challenging Suguru Volume 2: 300 Insanely Addicting Puzzles

Krazydad Easy Suguru Volume 3: 300 Insanely Addicting Puzzles

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