Image mosaic made easy

image-mosaic
Originally uploaded by wytze

Just a quick note here. Recently I discovered Image Mosaic Generator. This is a really great tool (dunno if it should be labeled social software though, is it?) for creating beautiful mosaics. What do you think of this picture? I like it and it is really damn easy to create.
I just wish that you could ask to make a mosaic based on just your own photo's on Flickr, so that copyright infringements would not be an issue. Or am I being paranoid here?

Why I renewed my Flickr account

Last week I got alerted by Flickr that my Pro account would expire soon. This means that I have been using Flickr for 2 years already. Time flies when you are having fun.
This alert started me to think why I should renew my account. Well, here are my reasons:
1/ I love the usability of Flickr! This is how a website should work. It is really so thought-out. There are (almost) never too many clicks to do things you would like to do. And also the sleek, simple, but powerful Flickr Uploadr is such a timesaver for me.
2/ I enjoy the beautiful photos that I come across at Flickr.
3/ Flickr makes it so easy to really trace what your 'friends' are up to. So, I really like the social networking aspect of Flickr.
These three reasons alone make it worth to spend the 47,99 US dollars for the next two years of fun at Flickr for me.
Ofcourse there are some things that annoy me. The two things that come to mind:
1/ The recent move to the Yahoo account system.
2/ The bulk download functionality that still isn't available.

Collections on Flickr

Yesterday I was posting some pictures on Flickr, when I noticed a new feature. It is called Collections. This is the answer to a question that has been around for a looooong time, about nesting of sets, and subsets etc. So I created a Work-related Collection for you.