Quick App: Flickr Mundo [video] 16
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:55 am EDT 
Currently webOS only lets you upload photos to Facebook and Photobucket. While a lot of photos do end up on those two sites, there’s more to the internet photo game. In particular, there’s Flickr. If you’re looking to get your photos onto that services, the app Flickr Mundo (from developer Shane O’Sullivan) is here to help.
Flickr Mundo makes uploading your photos to Flickr a snap, even allowing you to perform batch edits of photos in your albums. Beyond that you can download Flickr photos to your phone, put them into a wallpaper rotation, and add comments to photos and sets. Oh, and you can even create slideshows with musical backing. There’s a lot more to this $2.99 app, including location-based searches, favorites, and tagging, but you won’t get to play with it all until you download it. And you’re going to download it, right?
Still not convinced? Check out the video after the break.
16 Comments
there's one thing that needs to change on here, the background for the app. It's waayy too powerful and it's enough for me not to buy the app. who wants to see two giant snow cone dots the whole time they are viewing photos, which are meant to be viewed within the most neutral environment possible. that means no bright, vibrant distractions populating the back.
perhaps the developer could put in something more not so in your face. we understand, yes it is the logo, but even that deep purple is too rich. have the background more ethereal, spacey, calming, etc. i could not stare at those the whole time i would using the app. i want to see the PHOTOS.
hope this is helpful.
M
Wow. So make the photo full screen and scroll through them that way so you don't have any "bright, vibrant distractions" in your "most neutral environment possible." You must be developing a rival app.
It's a great app, by the way, and I would highly recommend it.
I tested this software during the beta phase and purchased it immediately after it arrived in the app catalog. The dev is still looking into on adding even more features such as adding tags to other people's photos. I am very happy with the functionality. And in contrast to the OC I don't mind the flickr logo shown the way it is. Well worth the money.
I recall when this was in beta that I had to make my photos public before I can use them for rotating backrounds.
is this still the case?
I would buy this app if I can keep my photos private but still be able to use my sets as backgrounds.
Chofter is also the developer of Flickr Addict, which is an innovative wallpaper switcher that pulls photos from Flickr. At one point, Flickr Addict did not authenticate with a user's Flickr account, which meant only public photos were available, but that's no longer the case. Flickr Addict added account authentication months ago, so private photos can be used as backgrounds.
Flickr Mundo is a new, full-featured Flickr app, which does include all of Flickr Addict's wallpaper functionality as a side benefit. But if all you want is desktop background switching, you can save $2 by getting Flickr Addict instead of Flickr Mundo. Just don't expect it to offer a robust Flickr experience, that's what Flickr Mundo is for. Personally, I think both apps are great bargains for what they do.
sbono13,
I just paid for the app based on what you said about being able to display my sets as rotating wall papers.
unfortunately this is not the case. I can view my pics, but must manually chose which photo I want as a wallpaper.
I'm contacting the developer in case I'm doing something wrong
In Flickr Mundo, you have to go to the separate wallpaper management tab (the icon 3rd from the left that looks like a Pre). From there, hit the wrench icon and you can set up what sources you want to pull Flickr wallpapers from.
Unfortunately, seems like the 1.2.9 update from today might have broken the ability to add a user set. It used to be that you could select a particular set from any user, but I get the spinning flickr icon of death while trying to add any user.
The developer is pretty responsive though, and I'm sure it will get fixed soon.
Ok, I found the wallpaper gallery but like you when I try to add myself as the user to choose my sets, I get the endless spinning flickr icon,
I emailed the developer with the problem.
Thanks
Hi Guys, the dev here,
I accidentally introduced a bug for adding a person's photos for wallpaper download. I'm working on a fix now, and it should be in the catalog in a day or two
Thanks
Shane
OK, that's fixed and submitted. More cool stuff in the works - as Jake said, there's a forum on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/palmpre that I check regularly where the guys have been great at providing feature requests and feedback, so feel free to us it if you think of something cool to add.
hopefully snapfish that is owned by HP is working on a app for webOS. hopefully that app will be free or prepackaged with the new devices.
I've also been beta testing since day one, and it's already my favorite webOS app. Shane is still taking user feedback & suggestions over in our Flickr group, chime in or just check it out to see how the app development progressed.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/palmpre/discuss/72157624544627777/page2/
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The usage I have is to keep Mundo in slide show mode and play music in the background. I leave it on my Touchstone and it keeps the screen from locking. It turns Pre into a nice little picture frame.
Oh, it has many other features. It gives me almost all the Flickr features I normally use.
Hey people. I love Flickr Mundo. I have just bought and payed it some weeks ago for using it on my Pre (the original old one). It was very nice. Now I switched to my new Veer. It is not there! I am missing it and I payed for it. Anyone any idea how to get it again? This is disappointing. I expected it would be running if it is even running on webos 3...