Web sites that allow you to upload photos are have them displayed for those who want to see them are a blessing. If you have some friends or family members who do not live in the same city or even the same country with you, this is a great opportunity to keep them updated with your looks, the new family members or the new house you bought. And this way, when using Flickr for example, you open the door for communication and you can see the other person, too, not only talk to them. This way you feel they are closer and do not miss them so much. Any way, my family, just like any other family nowadays, has taken great advantages from the fact that you can travel and work in any country , so they spread all over the world. And the only way we can communicate is the Internet. So we all have Flickr accounts and enjoy each other’ s photos every time we have the chance. This turned out to be really fortunate because one day my hard drive crashed and I had many of my personal digital photos stored on it. And since they were the latest ones, I did not make copies for them, so I considered them lost for ever. Well, that was until I found Flump 0.91.
Flump 0.91 is a software application that allows you to download public photos from a certain Flickr account and save them on your computer. Of course you can do that only if you have that account user name and password and, of course, if that user has already chosen to allow this. So , if you lose your photos like I did you can use Flump 0.91 to recover your photos from your Flickr account. You can also get access to other accounts, for example telling your brother or sister to give you their account user name and this way be able to download their photos, too.
The only system requirement if you want to use this application appropriately is to have Adobe AIR 1.1 installed on your computer. The support of this application allows the user to download photos both from authenticated accounts and from unauthenticated ones. So even if you don’t have access to a certain account, you can still copy photos displayed there if the user allows you to. This is great in my opinion. And I do not think it is violating the privacy of the user or the copyright laws, since the user allowed you to. This way you can save photos belonging to friends and relatives and do that without having to sign in to their accounts.
The software application is compatible with all Windows versions, but it can also be used with Mac and other operating systems like Linux – you only have to find the right version for downloading. It is developed by Mike Chambers and it can be downloaded as BSD license and used for free.
