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TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best Mac photo and video apps
The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often! Today TUAW is asking for your vote for the best Mac photo and video apps of 2011. While we received relatively few nominations in this area, there were several apps that stood out as potential winners in this category. Rather than have video and photo apps punching it out for the Best of 2011 title, I've decided to split the voting into both categories. In the video realm the new Camtasia 2 ($99.99) app pulled in the most nominations, while Apple's Final Cut Pro X ($299.99) was popular despite all the complaining when it was released earlier this year. ScreenFlow ($99.99), another screencasting app for Mac, will fight it out with Camtasia 2 for the honors. For photo apps, FX Photo Studio Pro ($39.99) grabbed the attention of readers, along with Sketcher ($14.99), Flickery ($9.99), and effect / texture app Flare ($9.99). Be sure to vote for one of each below -- one Mac photo app and one Mac video app. I'll announce the winners in a few days. %Poll-72024% %Poll-72020%
Flickery is on the Mac App Store, and you can win a free copy
We've mentioned Flickery a couple of times, and I've been using it for over a year now as my desktop client for Flickr. Developer Matthias Gansrigler has added quite a few new features since the last time we covered it, and the performance has increased significantly. Now that Flickery is available in the Mac App Store (US$23.99), that's going to be the exclusive outlet for new customers. Updates for current users will still be delivered outside of the App Store, though. If you're a Flickr user, I'd recommend taking a look at Flickery. In fact, we have three Mac App Store promo codes for it to hand out to our readers. If you're in the market for a slick way to access and upload your photos and videos, browse and download your friends' and explore all of Flickr, leave a comment on this post, and we'll announce the winners in about a week. Here are the rules and a link to the legal statement: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. To enter leave a comment on this post. The comment must be left before Sunday, February 27, 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time. You may enter only once. Three winners will be selected in a random drawing. Prize: Mac App Store promo code for Flickery (US$23.99 value). Click Here for complete Official Rules. Good Luck!
Flickery 1.7 offers even more Flickr fun
We covered Flickery a while back, and it's been through a couple of big updates since our initial article. Flickery is a Mac-based client for Flickr that provides extensive search, browsing, uploading, and downloading capabilities. I've been using Flickery since its release as my primary means of working with the Flickr photos and videos for me and my friends. It's good-looking and has been a great time-saver. Version 1.6, which came out at the end of October, brought batch editing of photos, video trimming, CoreLocation integration for photos taken within Flickery, faster pre-loading when browsing, and a lot of other new features. The latest version, 1.7, brings an impressive list of additional features which build upon the 1.6 release, including a new preferences panel, auto-resizing of uploaded photos, "Set as desktop picture" and "Download to Aperture" options, drag and drop integration with Finder and more. I've never had many problems with stability in Flickery, but the latest releases also include dozens of fixes for potential crashes and bugs. There's a holiday sale on Flickery running until January 1st that brings the price of the application down to US$13.99 (a 25% savings). Normal pricing resumes after that, so Flickr users in search of a solid desktop client should take a look as soon as possible!
Flickr fun with Flickery
A while back I discovered Flickery, a new desktop client for Flickr. We've covered a few different clients in the past, including FlickrFinder and Photonic, as well as Flickr's own Flickr Uploadr. Aside from Uploadr, we haven't seen many updates lately, which is why Flickery is a breath of fresh air. Flickery provides a good-looking interface for navigating your photos, photosets, contact's photos and photos from your groups, as well as an easy-to-use uploader. I love the saved search folders it can create, and the Download button at the top is a feature I've missed in some of the other clients I've looked at. Being able to quickly grab the highest-res version of a photo is a real boon in many cases. There are a couple of tweaks I'd like to see in future versions. Author Matthias Gansrigler at Eternal Storms is very responsive, so I anticipate that user feedback will heavily shape future releases. One thing that gets me is that the only way to view the full-size version of a photo is to open it in full-screen mode. I'd rather have the full size image downloaded when I double click a thumbnail, and then be able to resize and zoom as desired. I know it's a longer wait time for the download, but I don't have a lot of use for the medium size image and end up waiting twice, so it evens out. I'd also like to see the pagination of the photosets evolve to be more easily navigable, allowing me to skip to page 120 without hitting next 120 times. The search and filter functions are excellent, and the additional features such as emailing, posting to groups, adding to iPhoto and organizing sets and favorites make Flickery one of the best desktop Flickr experiences I've found. Flickery is currently available for $12.70US and is available for a free, 15-day test drive. The price is an introductory special; it will eventually go up to $19.20US. If you're using Flickr regularly, it's definitely worth a look.
