Flickr + Linux nerds = Flickrfs
May 2nd, 2006 by Jerry
I’ve been using Flickr for a while, but I never found a particularly useful upload tool. Since I’m a Linux nerd, most graphical/drag-n-drop programs are tedious and clumsy to me, and I’ve never been able to fully adopt iPhoto. There is a very nice iPhoto->Flickr plugin, though.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks this way, since some very smart people wrote a program to integrate Flickr into the Linux file system. For the non-Linux people, almost everything in Linux is a part of one big file system, including hard drive partitions, optical drives, flash drives, even files that interface with the devices. FlickrFS connects to Flickr and lets you interact with it as though it were part of your file system. You can read and write images in sets or by tags.
So what does all this jibberish mean? It’s easier for me to upload photos to Flickr, so all the pictures I’ve been meaning to add will soon be up on Flickr.