Matthew Skyrm’s .Plan in Japan

First I was on the header image when Yahoo’s official blog “Yodel Anecdotal” launched…

And now this…

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/Careers/culture/index.html

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/Careers/life/index.html

Goal: Easily share the latest high resolution photos of my son with the rest of my family without a bunch of BS. Photocasting looked like just the right solution…

Step 1: Get everybody in my family on a Mac running iPhoto 6. — Check

Step 2: Upload photos of my son to my expensive .Mac Flickr Pro account. — Check

Step 3: Get Flickr’s RSS feed URL and send out with instructions to use as a Photocast. — Check

Step 4: Everybody is happy. — Not so much….

The Flickr RSS feeds only had the most recent 10 or 20 photos in a pathetically low resolution that looked pixelated and disappointing when running a nice iPhoto slideshow on my mom’s 17″ C2D iMac or my father-in-law’s BlackBook.

Enter: photocastr

Thankfully the good folks at Flickr have a powerful API that QuantumFoam put to good use to make photocastr.

Simply put, photocastr creates a perfect Photocast/RSS feed of up to 250 of your most recent high resolution Flickr photos. It has a lot more great ways to tweak your feed (or photos from others) but the basics were more than enough to make me and my family happy campers. Thanks QuantumFoam!

Update: I found a pretty major flaw in that photocastr and iPhoto strictly limit the photos in the photocast to the most recent 250. If you have 250 and then upload another 10 to flickr, your iPhoto subscribers won’t have 260, they’ll lose the oldest 10 photos.