--- title: "Flickr! - get ready for Flippr! (and a new Israeli dev blogger)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/17/flickr-get-ready-for-flippr-and-a-new-israeli-dev-blogger.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/17/flickr-get-ready-for-flippr-and-a-new-israeli-dev-blogger.html" published: "2005-06-17T11:45:00" updated: "2005-06-17T11:45:00" tags: ["Cool Tools"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Found this guy, Ohad's weblog, on blogger.com through Ynet.co.il. He's a developer and has some small little utilities to download. For example, he wrote (in C++!) a utility that grabs process info off Google on each…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Flickr! - get ready for Flippr! (and a new Israeli dev blogger) By Roy Osherove June 17, 2005 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) **Historical article** · Originally published June 17, 2005; technical details may be outdated. Found this guy, Ohad's weblog, on blogger.com through Ynet.co.il. He's a developer and has some small little utilities to download. For example, he wrote (in C++!) [a utility that grabs process info off Google](http://ohadp.blogspot.com/2005/06/local-process-information.html) on each process running on your machine and tells you if you should check it out more. Not very helpful, actually, but nice to know he's a creative dude :) Something a little more creative I just found on his blog is '[Flippr](http://ohadp.blogspot.com/2005/05/flippr-flickr-wallpapers.html)': _Flippr! is a simple application that grabs pictures from_ [_Flickr!_](http://www.flickr.com/) _(The supercool photo-sharing website) and throws them on your desktop. It's easy to tell Flippr! what 'kind' of pictures you're looking for (_[_tags_](http://flickr.com/photos/tags/)_)._ Indeed, looks interesting! I should have to check this out. Checking out his blog I see that he has more stuff he's done. I'll just [bookmark his blog](http://ohadp.blogspot.com/) then.. Update: I'm not getting anywhere with this thing :( I'll mention this ans save you the trouble: \* it seems to only work with Python 2.3 (the various other installs you need to make it work require this distro) \* I keep getting a weird error "flippr.py", line 27, in ?    import win32com ImportError: No module named win32com" \* **[Blogger](http://www.blogger.com/) sucks** \- you can't make anonymous comments! By default??!! So much for interacting.... Now I can't even ask the guy how I should solve the problem.. error. what's up? ## More in Cool Tools [All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) - Jun 20, 2005 ### [ComputerZen: Top 120 cool tools every developer must have](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/20/computerzen-top-120-cool-tools-every-developer-must-have.html) - Jun 19, 2005 ### [LibCheck: List breaking changes between assembly versions](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/19/libcheck-list-breaking-changes-between-assembly-versions.html) - Jun 2, 2005 ### [Announcing: The Regulator Logo Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/announcing-the-regulator-logo-contest.html) - Jun 2, 2005 ### [Oracle Tools for VS.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/2/oracle-tools-for-vsnet.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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