Imaging tip: Bulkr lets you backup your Flickr photos... and more!

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Despite its despotic, glaring omission of vowels, you can probably guess what Bulkr does. That's the power of brand recognition, eh! If you can't work it out, here's a clue: bulk + flickr = ...

Specifically, Bulkr does two things -- and it does them well. First, you can download your entire Flickr stream -- either as one big stream of images, or broken into directories for each of your Sets. Second, you can browse Flickr with Bulkr. It's sharp and smooth all at once, Adobe AIR oozing from every button and orifice -- yes, it's an AIR app so it's cross-platform too!

You can also download photos from other streams -- as long as they haven't been flagged as 'undownloadable', anyway. It's also a faster and tidier way of searching for Creative Commons-licensed photos too.

All in all, Bulkr's a great tool for manipulating Flickr. The only gripe I have is that it doesn't save image meta data (tags, EXIF, etc.) in a standard XML format. Instead you get human-readable text files. Still, depending on your purpose, that might be desirable!

[Incidentally, does anyone know if 'flicker' was unavailable when the creators of Flickr first registered their domain name? Or was Flickr just the first in a long line of omg-vowel-omission-makes-us-sound-fresh-and-funky Web services?]

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