After a slight panic during the week, all the Flickr tools hosted here on mentalaxis are now working fine again...
I'd managed to neglect checking the latest news about the Flickr API and missed the notice informing the developer community about an upcoming change of server for Flickr API calls.
I realise that many of you would have been a bit confused (angry?) when your badgr installs stopped working, and I'm very sorry I wasn't prepared for the update, if you're using a downloaded .SWF of badgr or badgr2.0 you can download the updated one from the link below.
Thanks again to everyone who's using badgr.
By the way, if you missed my recent announcement, badgr2.0 is now configured to work with FlashPlayer 8 and up, this is in preparation for the new image size updates which are being developed at the moment, there's a tech demo here.
August 26th, 2006
Badgr2.0 and Polkr are now working again.
idFindr
idFindr and the integrated idFindr in Constructr are still not working but a fix is in the pipeline and should be online again soon.
August 24th, 2006
This is a brief post for anyone who’s wondering why Badgr, idFindr, Polkr and Constructr aren’t working
For some reason all of the mentalaxis flickr applications are being refused connection to Flickr servers.
I am working hard in an attempt to find out the details of this problem and get it fixed as soon as possible, I have recieved no word from Flickr or any other notification, so I’m still trying to find out why this has happend.
I would hope that the problems are all solved in the next 48 hours.
More details as I get them, and please accept my apologies.
August 24th, 2006
I know I’ve posted this already but I’ve added a few images to help explain what it does…
Polkr is a little flickr experiment I’ve been working on today, you can see a demo in action although it’s not ready for public distribution at the moment. In a nutshell Polkr creates a digital dot masked image from a flickr thumbnail image… hmmm ok, this’ll be easier for you to look at rather than have me try and explain… I suppose a much better nutshell would have been it’s cool have a look…
Here’s a demo image
(Flash 8 player required)
Click here to view polkr demo
This is just an early development stage, and it’s likely that I’ll only be using Polkr as an artistic toy, anyway if you think it’d be neat to be able to use it with your photo’s post me a comment and let me know.
If you’re wondering why it’s called Polkr… Polka dots… and Polkr’s a better name than dottr… (isn’t it?)
August 17th, 2006
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