wickr - a good widget
I’m finding myself using the wickr widget for the Yahoo Widget Engine more and more. In fact, it’s a staple on my desktop these days.
I found the widget via the most excellent Windows RSS Feed (there’s a Mac feed as well).
The widget works by presenting you with the most recent public images on flickr.
You can give the widget permission to access your photostream by loggin in. Once you do that, you can view your photostream and favorites by clicking on your image.
You can type in one or more search tags and wickr will present the first page of thumbnails. You can view subsequent pages using the little funky scrollbar control you see above the search box.
Search results can be organized by most recent or most interesting. I believe flickr classifies most interesting as those photos with either the most comments or the most people who mark a photo a favorite.
In any case, you can click on any of the thumbnails to view a larger preview window.
This preview window has a bunch of tools that you can play with. From left to right:
- See the profile of the flickr user when you hover over their profile image
- See the title of the photo
- View the description
- See the tags the photo is classified with
- See notes
- Addit to your favorite photos
- See different sizes
- Save it to disk
- Close the preview window
wickr comes highly recommended.