jUploader

Friends of flickr, Welcome !

If you have a flickr account (or a Zoomr account) and you are using Linux, your best bet to upload your pictures faster than using the website and the 6 upload fields is jUploader.

Do use the software, it's pretty easy: download the .tar.gz on your computer. Then unzip it (tar -zxvf jUploader-version.tar.gz). This extraction will create a folder. Go into this folder (cd jUploader-number-of-version) and run the script using ./jUploader. No need to be in root for any of these actions.

The bas thing about this is that you won't have any icon in your menu. You will always have to launch jUploader like this from the folder, in a console.

The second step is to link jUploader to your flickr account, so that jUploader sends the pictures under your name :) For this, go to Edition>Accounts (ou Comptes en français) and click on flickr or zoomr depending on the one you want to create.

jUploader then opens a windows saying that it is going to ask for the authorisation from flickr, and you need to be connected to the Internet to do it. You must put in your login account and your password. flickr is going to open in your web browser and say that a request has been sent, and that you must accept it. This is done in the web browser, on the flickr website.

When this is done, you can come back to jUploader, and add the pictures you wish to upload in mass. For this, you just drag and drop your files or folders in the jUploader window. Be careful, jUploader doesn't work recursively, which means that if your folder contains another folder, the pictures in the sub-folder won't be added.

jUploader checks every picture one by one (it takes 1 sec or less for each picture) to see if the extension of the file is accepted. If not, a pop-up will tell you so and wait for your approval. Don't start uploading your pictures before jUploader is done checking, because trying to upload a non-accepted file will crash jUploader.

You can change everything about any picture before you upload it. You can also make some change on several pictures. All you have to do is select them, right-click and choose to modify! Easy isn"t it?

I'm using version 1.1.2 right now, and I'm very happy with it !! Tip: Click and hold on the folder you want to add, and then [Alt+Tab] will make you switch from your photos folders to any other application. Keep on pressing the tab button to navigate through the different windows until you reach jUploader. It's very useful when your exploration window is maximised and your jUploader window disappears behind it.

Oh, and of course, jUploader is open source, so you can use it, but don't hesitate to help the project if you really like the product !!