A friend tweeted about Frump, an Abobe Air-based product that allows one to download pictures from Flickr.
Frump is described as:
… a simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account.
Some points:
- The Adobe Air download was 21.2 mb; frump was 431kb.
- I’m not quite sure I want anyone to download all my public photos.
- On installation this ominous message came up. Although I continued, as I “trust” the source (Google), I’ll likely remove it after testing.
- The application tries to download all the public photographs, which makes it impractical from those who have large number of pictures on their site; being able to download a Flickr set would be more useful
- I tried downloading photos from a few people on my contact list, and while the program correctly determined the number of photos, it downloaded none of them [I was able to download manually].
My immediate reaction to this whole thing was to secure my Flickr account to prevent downloads. This can be done by going to account preferences in Flickr.
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