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It was late last year that Flickr for iOS underwent a major makeover as part of Marissa Mayer’s vision to revitalize Yahoo products, and today the app’s on the receiving end of what’s perhaps its most notable update since. The refreshed application will now let iDevice owners easily mention Flickr friends by way of — you guessed it — that ubiquitous “@,” while the new version also brings speedier photo uploads, an option to save shots from your own Photostream to the iOS camera roll and the ability to quickly snap a picture using the volume button. In addition to that, the Flickr app now also allows users to gawk at higher-res pics in the Lightbox View, which should be a feature nicely welcomed by those who like to call themselves pixel buffs. Version 2.10.803, as it’s more formally known, is now live in the App Store, so head on to Cupertino’s shop if you’re eager to try out the free goods.

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Flickr is one of the more popular photo sharing services out there. The photo service allows users to upload photographs that anyone can see and to upload photographs privately they can only be viewed by specific users. The photo sharing site recently ran into an issue where photographs marked private were made available to the public.

Flickr notes that it was performing routine site maintenance and identified a bug in software that could have changed the view settings on some photos from private to public. The company says that photos were visible between January 18 and February 7 of 2013. Flickr says that it put additional measures in place to prevent this sort of problem from happening again.

The software problem affected some images uploaded between April and December of 2012. The company says that overall the bug impacted only a small percentage of the photos uploaded to the sharing service. However, Flickr boasts an average of about 1.4 million public photos uploaded daily during 2012 meaning that millions of private photos could have been viewed by the public.

It remains unclear exactly how many users were affected by the bug and some users affected by the bug report that Flickr was unable to tell them if people viewed their private photos. The company set privacy settings for any potentially affected image to private. However, that could mean that photographs people meant to be public are now unavailable for viewing.

[via Information Week]

Flickr flaw flaunted private pics publicly is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Whatever the platform, Tapbots’ Tweetbot is known for supporting in-line content viewing that doesn’t always appear in other Twitter clients — it’s a survivor of the Instagram-Twitter fallout, for example. With the launch of version 2.7 updates for iOS, the app may have microblog media well and truly covered. The upgrade adds easy Flickr viewing, to accommodate Instagram exiles, as well as quick peeks at Vine’s 6-second video loops. Third-party app integration likewise expands its boundaries: links can now open in either 1Password or Chrome, instead of Safari. Both the iPad and iPhone releases are live today, so hit the relevant links to see the imagery you might have been missing.

[In-photo image credit: Steve Kovach, Vine]

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Via: Tweetbot (Twitter)

Source: App Store (iPhone), (iPad)

This week the folks at Pulse have opened the floodgates for a variety of social networking feeds into their already well-established visual user interface for news consumption. This update takes Pulse up to the next level of all-encompassing integration with each of the systems you work with on the daily. This may be the biggest upgrade to Pulse since its original launch back two years ago for iOS (and this update works with Android, too!)

Along with simple pull-in abilities for Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, and YouTube, this version of Pulse adds a whole new video and photo viewing interface. You’ll be able to push back basically everything but the essentials – including a simple one-shot interface with the creator of each bit of content. This interface is ever-so-slightly different depending on if you’re working with iOS or Android, it keeping a clean face either way.

You’ll be able to add your favorite feeds from the new social network affiliations listed by heading to the blue Add Content button at the bottom left of your navigation bar. You’ll swipe over to Social or “What’s New” and you’ll tap the + button to add your favorite feed to a page. When you head back to the page you’ve added it to, there it’ll be!

Pulse will be highlighting key channels from each of the big additions over the next week – and they’ll be sure to keep up the fun into the future as well! You’ll find SlashGear’s YouTube page particularly enticing, and don’t forget to Like SlashGear on Facebook so we show up through your newly integrated Facebook feed as well! Pulse is available for Android and iOS right this minute for free – grab it!

Pulse integrates Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, and YouTube is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Marissa Mayer and the folks at Yahoo! have a nice little gift for you this holiday season: free Pro Flickr for three months for any and all users, old and new. Surely this is just all in the spirit of holiday cheer and has nothing to do with cleverly making use of another image-sharing service’s TOS debacle, right? Right?! More »