1. How To Download Flickr Albums

I want to download all of the photos in an album a friend shared online, but the site will only let me get one picture at a time. Is there a shortcut to download the whole set?A. On the Internet, what goes up does not always come down as easily.In this case, we have a user who can download individual photos from Yahoo's Flickr site (click the ellipsis-icon 'More Actions' button, select 'Download / All sizes' from its menu, pick a size and click the blue 'Download' button) but can't get multiple pictures in one step.Flickr suggests using third-party programs written to work with the site and names one popular choice, the free Bulkr. But after trying that and several other apps that looked promising, either by virtue of user reviews or their own descriptions, I've yet to find any that I can endorse too strongly.

Bulkr, an Adobe Flash-based app, wouldn't run in Apple's Safari unless I disabled a security restriction in that browser. No thanks: I have seen too many reports of attacks exploiting Flash flaws. In Chrome, an attempt to install it stalled out; only in Internet Explorer did it operate as advertised. Flick and Share had a promising pitch: Select an album to share, and it will create a link that recipients can click to download every photo in it. But after I got past the spammy presentation on its site (hint: ignore the big green 'free download' button), I saw that I'd have to run a Java applet in my browser-and Java's security on the Web makes Flash look bulletproof. Flixtractr didn't require installing any extra software but could only generate a compressed archive of an album - one of my own, not anything shared by a Flickr contact-in Chrome.

And it was strangely slow to do that. Downloadair's single-click install failed in Safari and Chrome but not in IE; in those first two browsers, I first had to download and install Adobe's Air software (a cousin of Flash) before installing this app. Then, however, it provided the best overall experience.Many of the apps on Flickr's list seem to have been around a while and, unless updated, will stop working when the site (sensibly) requires outside apps to encrypt all their communication with the site, effective June 27.(Disclosure: I write a column on policy issues at Yahoo Tech and have had a Flickr account since 2005.)Flickr is not the only site to leave out a simple bulk-download function. Since 2010, Facebook has let you export all of your data from the site, but to get copies of the photos in a specific album you still have to employ third-party tools.The open-source PhotoGrabber required a second click of its 'Login' button to get Facebook's site to cough up an alphanumeric token that, when pasted into its window, allowed it to access photo albums on the site.

How To Download Flickr Albums

A free service that allows Flickr users to generate a short-link to automatically download all the set's pictures in high-resolution. Generated links are private but can be shared with friends, on social network or just used for personal backup. Photobucket, a multimedia hosting website, enables your small business to backup and share images and videos in a wide variety of formats. Photobucket stores all your files within albums that you.