Flickroom - An Adobe Air App for Flickr
I have just downloaded and installed Flickroom and it is a slick and shiny app to manage and use your flickr account browser-free.
If you are into twitting from Tweetdeck or Twitterrific, you are likely to enjoy this one. It sits on your desktop, tells you about comments and have a chat for you to socialise with fellow flickroom users. It also allows you to upload pictures and has a nice interface to comment, browse your contacts, etc.
Now, having said that – and without forgetting it's on beta stage – I think the proposal is far too modest for the potential it has.
What I mean by that is that it is nice to have lightweight, fast aps to handle your web life in a quicker, more customizeble and browser independent way, but the real power of such application lies in the fact that it can be a far more powerful bridge between the cloud and your desktop than a web app can be.
Why? Many reasons, including:
* It uses your processor, rather than the server's, so you can perform far more intese processing (someone though image edition?)
* It has wider access to your computer resources and files, synchronising a local library with your flickr account can be done in a snap (iTunes style, if you'd like to put it this way) and interacting with other programs (calendars, address books, etc) unleash endless possibilities.
Now, again, this is a beta version, and much of what I'm suggesting is quite non-trivial, so a congratulations is in order for the creators and let's keep our fingers crossed that there is in the roadmap functionality that can only be achieved on a desktop application.
