It’s Wednesday, which means that the release of Mac OS X Leopard is now less than 60 hours away! Today, I continue with part 3 of my award-winning Tiger-to-Leopard series (well, okay, it hasn’t really won anything, yet), where I take a look at everything that has happened during the 130-week interim between the releases of Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard. Today, I begin my focus on the Web 2.0, which has grown and matured exponentially since early 2005. Now, don’t get confused with the whole “part within a part thing,” but since I have quite a bit of Web 2.0 coverage to, well, cover, I’ll be stretching my Web 2.0 TTL coverage over today and tomorrow. Shall we take a look? (And yes, I promise that this post won’t be the laundry list you saw yesterday.)
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Tags: Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Mac OS X Leopard, MySpace, phpBB, Tiger-to-Leopard, Twitter, Web 2.0, WordPress, YouTube

Despite Apple trying to catch up to modern times with their fabled .Mac Web Gallery, there’s already a leader in sharing photos with friends on the internet–and one that’s a whole lot cheaper than .Mac. We all know it as Flickr, the site where anyone can upload their photos and share it with other contacts on the web–one of the websites most recognized with Web 2.0. And for a $25/year pro account (which I recently indulged myself with), you can upload as many photos you want, with no upload or bandwidth limits–that’s for a quarter of a price of .Mac and a lot more features. But, when you have a Pro account, that means that you’re going to want to upload all of your photos to Flickr as easily as possible. If you use a Mac, there’s a number of tools out there to do that (because everyone knows that uploading it through the web browser is boring and tedious), including one that Flickr themselves maintains, but the easiest and best tool, by far, has to be the FlickrExport plugin for iPhoto.
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Tags: export, Flickr, iPhoto, photos, plug-in, review, Software