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Those of you who hate the recent arrival of Yahoo’s logo on Flickr now have an easy way to erase it–and get a number of useful features–as long as you’re using an edgy version of Chrome.

Fittr Flickr lets you click 'EXIF' to expand a box below the image to show photo details.

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Chrome extensions let people customize the browser’s behavior, and the Fittr Flickr extension from Gmail programmer Dan Pupius whips Yahoo’s photo-sharing site into shape. Some people use extensions for using Delicious bookmarks, banishing ads, and filling out forms, but this is my favorite Chrome extension so far.

The Yahoo logo is ugly but not too bothersome in my eyes. Instead, what I like best about Fittr Flickr is its keyboard navigation options. Once the extension is installed, you can type “?” to see the options, but the two I now use a lot are “.” and “,” to navigate forward and backward through a person’s photostream. Typing “s” will star a photo as a favorite, and in a nice Google touch harkening to the vi text editor, “/” will put your cursor in the search field.

To use Chrome extensions, though, you must be using the developer preview version of the browser, since extensions are something of a work in progress. (Click to download for Windows or Mac OS X.) I’ve had to restart Chrome sometimes to enable the last two extensions I tried out.

Another nice feature for pixel-peepers such as myself is the addition of an EXIF button below the photo that reveals camera, lens, and exposure details without navigating away from the photo. Nearby are direct links to the small, medium, and large version of the photos.

There are some other nice tidbits, too, involving viewing photos against a black background, comments, and other matters.

Yahoo has to make Flickr appeal to a large swath of people, most of whom probably don’t care about these options. But for me, they unlock some of Flickr’s potential.

Firefox users who want similar technology can try Dustin Diaz’s Quickr Flickr script, which requires the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox to be installed before the script can be added. Greasemonkey fans also can use a number of scripts that will un-Yahoo the logo.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

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In case you aren’t tuned in to the open source grapevine, know that a major Magnolia (news, site) event is just around the corner.

The Magnolia Conference will be held in Basel, Switzerland on September 10th and 11th of this year. Day 1 is Presentation Day, during which participants of the conference can expect

Microsoft owns the operating system market with its many flavours of Windows. Only Apple OS has attempted to break that monopoly with only marginal success. As a result Apple has recognized Microsoft’s predominance in creating dual-boot MacBooks that operate both Apple and Windows operating systems.

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Wannabe Socialcast (news, site) developers, the time has come to roll up your sleeves.

The team behind the collaboration software platform has announced that the official Socialcast Developer API is now available to every Socialcast network.

The API does what you’d expect an API to do: it allows developers to dream up and create new functionality in the form of native clients or internal applications. Additionally, partner companies can now share their Socialcast activity streams with each other. The cross-enterprise collaboration translates to something like Yammer, or Twitter for the enterprise, although Socialcast Founder and CEO Timothy Young claims it does not aim to be so.

For those who already have a Socialcast account, the API can be found by logging into your community, clicking on “Tools” in the top navigation bar, and then “integrate with the Socialcast developer API” at the bottom of the list. As for the newbies, you can sign up for Socialcast here.

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Google Chrome fans who live on the edge and use the developer’s build now get access to one of the best features in Windows 7. Browser jump-list access had previously been limited only to Internet Explorer, but Chrome version 3.0.197.11 supports it.

Jump lists in Windows 7 for Internet Explorer 8 (left) and Google Chrome 3.0.197.11 (right).

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The jump list, accessible by right-clicking on the Chrome taskbar icon or by holding down the left mouse button and dragging, mimics the Internet Explorer jump list. What IE calls “Frequent”, Chrome labels “Most Visited Sites”, but both merely show your most frequently visited Web sites. Both lists of URLs are configurable, so you can remove sites from the list.

Below the frequency list is a short list of tasks. Chrome again copies IE here, offering a quick start link to open a new private browsing window. Where IE offers a link to open a new tab, though, Chrome curiously offers a link to open a new browsing window.

Google continues to lay the groundwork for the stable version of Chrome on other operating systems, too. Mac users of the dev build, which has been updated to version 3.0.197.12 for them, now get extensions enabled by default. Linux users, meanwhile, should no longer find Chrome crashing when reading their Gmail.

The developer’s build of Chrome can be downloaded directly or enabled using the Chrome Channel Changer.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

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Windows 7 jump lists come to Chrome