We hired Amy Adoyzie to help out with our tagging photos in our Flickr pool, a magical place where readers submit photos for possible use in our posts.
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Cut Spending With Flickr And A Cameraphone
By 7.18.07
Here’s an idea for people trying to get a lock on their spending but find writing down everything too fascist. What about taking a picture of everything you buy with your cameraphone and uploading it to Flickr?
Introducing Shannon
By 7.11.07
We’ve hired Shannon to help tag our pictures and those in our Flickr pool (which now has 576 members and 7493 photos, wow!). She takes neat photos, loves Flickr, lives in Japan and was recently bitten on her left foot by a spider!
Slideon: The Mp3/Video Player With Sliding iPod Killer Controls
By 5.16.07
This audio/video player designed by Consumerist Flickr pool member unleashedlive features a sliding control panel that hides under the playing screen, just like with a slider cellphone. The maker of this 3d rendering says it would use flash memory and be chargeable via the headphone jack.
LEAKS: Yahoo Photos Closes September 20th
By 5.14.07
Yahoo Photos will close on September 20th, according to this internal Target newsletter. Users will have until that date to move their online scrapbooks to a partner site, like Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish, Photobucket
Panopticon Of CPSC Hazardous Product Illustrations
By 5.11.07
We find ourselves oddly captivated by this gallery of product warnings we unearthed on the Consumer Product Safety Commission site.
Introducing: The CVS Chocolate Diet!
By 4.9.07
Reader Greg sends the above photo of his local CVS. Now there’s a diet….or perhaps just a helpful suggestion for those shoppers who are often drawn to this particular aisle.—MEGHANN MARCO
Consumerist Flickr Pool: Friday Flickr Finds
By 3.17.07
Some recent additions to our Flickr pool that didn’t make it into a post (yet!) but we thought looked neat anyway.
How To Take Pictures Inside Stores Without Getting Caught
By 3.15.07
How can you take hundreds of pictures inside a store without getting caught? It can be really hard. If you ask for permission, it will be likely be denied. If you’re too conspicuous, someone will say, “No pictures!” and you could get thrown out.
Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish
By 3.15.07
Consumerist Flickr Pool member brylyn says, “Saw this while shopping for ceiling lights in Home Depot.”
