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Blow Up Shows Off Flickr Photos Full-Screen
Posted by Gina Trapani at 1:30 AM on July 30, 2008
Webapp Blow Up displays Flickr photos in a full-screen slideshow for closeup browsing. When you want to show off your vacation photos from this summer that you uploaded to Flickr, head over to Blow Up Your Flickr and enter your username. Blow Up will pull down your photos and display them full screen, with a hideaway thumbnail navigation. Web site owners, you can even download the Blow Up app and install it on your own site.
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Peterpan
Posted November 10, 2008 8:53 PM
Apples and oranges,
Piclen is great your the PC you use everyday, but when you want others to view your pictures fullscreen and dont (or can't) get them to install picLens, then this blow up page is perfect. www.fullscreenflickr.com does the same thing, tho i think its just medium res pictures (but you can create links directly to your photo's, even link to it from your flickr page).
So it has its use's, and it many situations it better than piclen (but its many its not), Apples and Oranges.
Nabeel Ahmed
Posted 5:05 AM 30/7/08
I can't believe it guys...if the Blow Up devs saw how you guys turned the entire post around by praising a competitor [Piclens] only, they'd really lose heart.
And I vote for Piclens too, not only does it support Flickr, but even videos and other sites.
Nabeel Ahmed
Alex
Posted 4:57 AM 30/7/08
PicLens is a great piece of software! I don't get it, what's so great about Blow Up - it does what exactly what Flickr's built-in slideshow feature does, right?
Alex
suburbancowboy
Posted 4:24 AM 30/7/08
Piclens is the bomb!
suburbancowboy
ahawks
Posted 3:52 AM 30/7/08
Not that great actually. It crops photos to fit on screen, which is pretty unacceptable to me. It also loaded the low-res version first and stretched it
ahawks
0zSpitt
Posted 3:47 AM 30/7/08
piclens gets my neathers randy, too. glad i'm not alone on this. i can use blow up, my 24" wide screen makes everything look small. therefore i'll never display my intellect on my monitor. lol
0zSpitt
FubarGuy
Posted 2:55 AM 30/7/08
Piclens is so sexy, it makes my ovaries hurt! And I'm a dude!!
FubarGuy
pinkskittles
Posted 2:42 AM 30/7/08
I think PicLens is better, but it gets a tad annoying, because sometimes I don't want to use it and that silly arrow is there and I always click on it by accident. Also, what's good about PicLens is it's not only for Flickr, but it works for Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket too I believe... and possibly other ones. Mac users should note that they have a version for FF and Safari.
pinkskittles
Sytrus
Posted 2:11 AM 30/7/08
@playdoh:
Agreed. Piclens is amazing.
Sytrus
WarAxe
Posted 2:07 AM 30/7/08
This is great! The interface is well done (maybe just a bit choppy when dealing with MANY photosets).
One thing... licensing? It looks like this pulls full-sized photos from anyone's Flickr account (not just your own).
WarAxe
playdoh
Posted 1:35 AM 30/7/08
i still love piclens
playdoh
MagicMT
Posted 8:06 AM 30/7/08
piclens is cool. but it BSOD'd me more than once. =(
MagicMT
BlogsOfSteel
Posted 1:02 PM 30/7/08
Hey Blow Up Guys! Yay, great job, woo hoo, way to go, keep up the good work, :-) etc.
I think that made them feel better!
OK, back to Piclens (i hearts it...)
BlogsOfSteel
pomokey
Posted 3:39 PM 30/7/08
@MagicMT: sounds like you have a problem with your graphics drivers. try reinstalling them. piclens makes heavy use of your video card, and that would be the main reason for getting a BSOD with it. I have never had a problem with piclens, other than the fact that the arrows are always there, which can get annoying
pomokey
playdoh
Posted 1:32 AM 31/7/08
Piclens should be paying ME. ;)
playdoh
WarAxe
Posted 2:02 AM 31/7/08
PicLens only shows an RSS feed of photos. That's sorta useless.
BlowUp appears to have two-level navigation allowing for all of a Flickr user's photosets to be display and drilled-down into.
WarAxe
jonpaulrod
Posted 7:27 AM 30/7/08
THIS IS SO DOPE!
i was looking for something like this for a website im building for a buddy of mine who's not to web savvy!
jonpaulrod
MattBurris
Posted 3:37 AM 30/7/08
Not true fullscreen, it's more like fullviewport, in that it fills up your browser. So if you're like me, and run your browser in a window instead of maximized, it doesn't actually fill your screen. Still, it's pretty nice, the way you select Sets is intuitive and a nice touch.
I had to close the site when I hit F11, because it ended up getting things stuck. Tabs would stay in view instead of hiding like normal, and hitting F11 wouldn't make it return to normal.
I haven't heard of Pickens, I'll have to check that out.
MattBurris