There are, once again, ugly rumors circulating about the demise of photo gallery site flickr. But, we’re none of us rank amateurs here, we all have separate backups of all the photos we don’t want to lose should flickr be shut down, don’t we?
Well, maybe not and if you want to use a download app to grab them all in one go rather than saving each one to your hard drive manually you will need to know your flickr ID, not your flickr username (e.g. Mine is sciencebase) but your ID, which will look something like this: 43311023@N00
Anyway, idGettr, lets you quickly find your ID from your username so that you can enter it into the appropriate field in whatever download software you’re using. At this moment, that happens to be a gallery plugin for WP, which will allow me to pull all my flickr photos into the Imaging Storm site in one go. Of course, I have offline backups galore of all my digital photos and scans. Of course, I do…