Flickr launches their official Google Android app

And it sucks.

Ok. It does most of the basic things. Like taking images. Uploading it to your Flickr account.

It also has filters! Yawn.

It can also post images to other social networks like Twitter, Facebook and even Tumblr.

But it does not do a lot of things.

It cannot sync the photos on the phone with my Flickr account. This was the most basic feature this app should have offered.

It does not even seem to follow my upload settings! Photo uploads were labeled as public when the default setting in my account is private.

The photo taking process is painfully slow. The app tries to mimic Apple iPhone’s camera which I think is horrible.

If you played around with this app… What do you think about it?

Why I dislike Google Buzz?

Google recently launched Buzz as their challenger (alternative) to Twitter and Facebook status updates.

Integration with Gmail makes it a service that I can use on a regular basis. I like it how it allows me to post what I want to post without worrying about character limits.

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Adobe Flash Player 10 Madness: Get back Flash Player 9 for the time being!

If you are a WordPress user, you might have noticed that file upload has stopped working with the latest Flash 10 Player update.

They made some changes in the code of the player which requires the developers of WordPress to change their own code to make it work again.

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