One of the cool things I do with my iPhone is take pictures while I am out and upload them directly to my Flickr account (if I find a wifi point…)

There are many ways to do that, here are the ones I tried:

- The easiest way is to send the image as an attachment through email. Every Flickr account has a private email for this purpose. I’ve tried this in the past, but it was not very efficient. Sometimes the email just never arrives, sometimes it takes a long time, which defeats the purpose of upload on the spot.

- There are a few apps that do this: Pushr just uploads all the pics in your camera roll (I couldn’t find a way to choose which photo to upload). uPoze uploads every photo in your camera roll, including new ones you take (this is only useful if you want to automatically upload all photos). iFlickr allows you to choose an image from your camera roll, or to take a new one and upload it. It also allows to enter title, description, tags, permissions. This is the app I’ve been using until recently. But then I found a newer and better app.

- MobileFlickr (Source http://xk72.com/iphone/repos/ ): this is the most comprehensive Flickr app so far. Not only it allows to easily upload photos like iFlickr (including upload status bar/size uploaded), but it also has a nice interface to your Flickr account. You can choose to browse your stream, sets, favorites, groups, tags, and everything for your contacts or anyone else. It can cash thumbnails locally (so you can browse offline), and it allows to browse photos with a coverflow-like interface. I haven’t found any problem with this app, I only wish it allowed to modify my own photos (delete, change title etc..). I think anyone with an iPhone should have this app. Even if you don’t have a Flickr account, get one for free and start photoblogging!!

Flickr also has a mobile version of their site (http://m.flickr.com), and it works ok on the iPhone. It’s not formatted for the iPhone specifically, it looks more like a general WAP site. It also doesn’t allow to edit your photos, for that you’ll have to switch to the normal site. A better site for viewing Flickr photos is iPhlickr (www.chandlerkent.com/iphlickr) which formats the photos very nicely. However MobileFlickr is still a better alternative.