Why didn’t I ever think of this? While browsing some of the limited and geeky things that Flickr offers users when trying to customize a Flickr badge for a website using the Flickr API, the APP Garden appeared.

Grab that digital camera at night around some sources of strong light that aren’t so strong they close the shutter right away. You know, when it’s too hard to hold still long enough to take a picture of your food at a dark restaurant, don’t even try! Just toss your camera up in to the air, catch it and see what awaits you on the memory card!

When to make the best use of Camera Tossing

Website designers kill themselves trying to come up with attractive, captivating and random background that convey mood or color without explicitly presenting anything identifiable. Camera Tossing could be the solution to wonderful website backgrounds or banners.

Camera Tossing Pictures on Flickr

Better gallery on Flickr with Camera Tossing!

As for finding extra bits of code for your badge with the Flickr API, this list is what they offer with the warning, “Watch out! You have to be pretty geeky to add this stuff,” like {photo_url} and {photo_desc} which pop into badge codes provded your blog template is friendly enough to allow for it.

The Flickr Badge utility can fit directly into a Textpattern built blog such as this one as seen below. Customizing the API means getting an API Key and being pretty snazzy with code. The snazzier we get, the more we’ll share with you on adding custom badges to Textpattern blogs.

The Badge Maker utility from Flickr is pretty ordinary stuff allowing 1 to 9 pictures in a horizontal or vertical format that all link back to the image in the Photoset from whence it came….

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HTML Badge. Refreshing the page loads random pictures from the Tech Design site.