{"id":3654,"date":"2006-01-13T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/13\/iphoto-60-flickr-photocasts\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:08:01","slug":"iphoto-60-flickr-photocasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/13\/iphoto-60-flickr-photocasts\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhoto 6.0: Flickr Photocasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7087,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto\\\/features\\\/photocasting.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070714045151\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com:80\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto\\\/features\\\/photocasting.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:01:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:01:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5573,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131016010413\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ilife\\\/iphoto&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2952,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7088,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/inessential.com\\\/?comments=1&amp;postid=3247&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251116202027\\\/https:\\\/\\\/inessential.com\\\/?comments=1&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:01:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:01:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7089,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/phlikr.3xi.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>One of the questions I had while <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/macworld_06_daw.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Macworld '06: Dawn of the i(ntel)Mac\">watching the Macworld &#8217;06 keynote<\/a> popped up when Steve was demoing the new &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/iphoto\/features\/photocasting.html\" title=\"Apple: iLife: iPhoto: Photocasting\">Photocasting<\/a>&#8216; ability in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/iphoto\/\" title=\"Apple: iLife: iPhoto\">iPhoto 6<\/a>. He clicked on the Photocast RSS feed, iPhoto popped right up, and the photos appeared in the album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What would happen,&#8221; I wondered, &#8220;if you tried to subscribe to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/\" title=\"Flickr: Photos from djwudi\">Flickr<\/a> RSS feed as if it were a Photocast?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/flickr_copyatom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/flickr_copyatom-tm.jpg\" height=\"157\" width=\"495\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Copying my Flickr Atom feed\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/iphoto_subscribe.jpg\" height=\"328\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Subscribe to Photocast...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/iphoto_url.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/iphoto_url-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"495\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Entering the Flickr Atom address\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/iphoto_flickralbum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2006\/01\/graphics\/iphoto_flickralbum-tm.jpg\" height=\"193\" width=\"495\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"iPhoto's Flickr Photocast\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Admittedly, it&#8217;s not <em>quite<\/em> the same as an official (iPhoto-created) Photocast would be, as Photocasts can (optionally) include the full-resolution photos. As the Flickr feeds only include the small size photo, the resulting album is populated only with small (~240&#215;180) photos, certainly not any resolution suitable for printing. Also, my understanding is that a Photocast would include however many photos were in the album selected for &#8216;casting; the Flickr feed only includes the last 10 photos.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it does work; the only real differences are simply differences in how the RSS feeds are created (number of items and resolution of the included images).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Flickr could include an option to enable Photocasting &#8212; if not for entire feeds, then perhaps for individual sets &#8212; and allow a choice of what size photo to embed into the Photocast feed, and\/or how many photos to include (last <em>X<\/em>, entire sets, etc.). Then, clicking on a set&#8217;s &#8216;Photocast&#8217; link or icon would allow iPhoto\/Flickr users very nearly the same Photocast functionality as iPhoto\/.mac users do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at least worth tossing the idea out there, I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> Found in <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/?comments=1&amp;postid=3247\" title=\"Inessential.com: URLs of photocasting feeds?\">this spirited discussion of the Photocast feeds<\/a> on Brent Simmons&#8217; weblog is an announcement from John Evans that he&#8217;s created a <a href=\"http:\/\/phlikr.3xi.org\/\" title=\"Flickr to Apple Photocast\">Flickr to Apple Photocast (Phlickr)<\/a> feed converter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It will take a feed from flickr and rework it a little so that it uses the large images and contains the comment of the photo as well. It is an Atom 1.0 feed that seems to validate on the feeds I have tested, it also includes most of the extra apple stuff debated here. If I can work out the date format I will add that too, and myabe the tags can be retrived and added so they appear as keywords.<\/p>\n<p>  To use just paste any feed from flickr into the box and hit the button, the feed should just open up in iPhoto, if not it will just be a regular atom feed with all the relevent enclosures so it will work in NetNewsWire or whatever your reader is.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just tried it, and it worked fine for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;What would happen,&#8217; I wondered, &#8216;if you tried to subscribe to a Flickr RSS feed as if it were a Photocast?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2050],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-photography","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}