Articles by Kees

Ipernity’s Geotagging feature employs Google maps and is clearly superior to ... what we were used to. The hybrid mode, especially, makes identifying motifs a lot easier, and you’ll be able to differentiate between objects which, in real life, are only a few yards apart. Unfortunately, that’s not all there is to it. It’s all very fine if your image focuses on only one thing: just taggit! (and don’t ask yourself if it makes much sense to geotag a tulip)…

Yesterday, using the “Contact us/Report bugs” link at the bottom of every Ipernity screen, I sent a mail to Support and asked for extra bandwidth so as to be able to transfer all of my Flickr pictures to this place. Only a short while later, Christophe of the Ipernity team notified me that my request had been granted. Bandwidth had been tripled. To transfer 750+ high resolution pictures would have been virtually impossible without having the GreaseMonkey script. I read it was…

I had a nightmare, last night. I was signing up to Flickr, and Flickr was called “Flickr beta”. I shook my head. Looking again, I saw the name had changed to “Flickr gamma”. I closed my eyes with confusion, and when I opened them there was yet another change: “Flickr loves you”. Then I finally woke up, bathing in sweat. I’m sure this has nothing to do with our present situation, but beware when you log in, one day, and find Ipernity spreading t…

So this is where we meet again. I won’t give up Flickr entirely: one has certain obligations, mainly to the AlphaSmart group ( www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart ), but also to the three people who told me they like the Icking pictures ( www.flickr.com/groups/icking ). I’ll hardly renew my Pro account, though, which means that Flickr can’t serve for backing-up my original photos anymore. Are Stewart, Heather, and the other members of the Flickr staff bad people? I d…