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Flickr

Flickr is a photo sharing community. With our Flickr partnership, you can view

photos stored on Flickr from your Alpha Media Player. That means that your

friends and family can upload photos to Flickr, and you can view them on your TV,

or you can play back your own online Flickr photos.

Adding Photos

To add a Flickr user’s photos:

1. Go to your BendBroadband Alpha account and sign in.

2. Search for the Flickr user whose photos you would like to view.

3. Click Submit to add that user to your account. That user’s publicly-shared

photos will now appear in your photos application.

Flickr has a great feature called Interestingness, which rates photos based on

their appeal. If you click “Add Interestingness” from the Flickr page of your ac-

count you’ll add a collection of the photos with the highest “Interestingness” rat-

ings to your Photos category.

Flickr Users

Once you have added a Flickr user to your account, that user will appear in the

vertical list of the Photos category, along with Interestingness, if you’ve included it.

When press INFO with a Flickr user selected, you’ll see the following options:

• open sets - allows you to view that user’s photos by set

• play slideshow - plays the user’s photos in a full-screen slideshow

• slideshow music - allows you to change the options for the slideshow music

• play as mosaic - displays the user’s photos in an easy-to-navigate grid

When you have a Flickr user in focus that has his/her photos organized into sets,

those sets will appear in the panel to the right. If you press the right arrow to select

a set, you’ll see the same options, only those options apply only to the selected

set rather than all of the user’s photos.