As we all know, there has been an incredible amount of buzz around the recent release of the 3G iPhone, and I think even more importantly, the release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware which brought us the ability to install third part applications. I have downloaded ab installed my fair share and am weeding out the keepers as they say. As I go along I want to take some time to pass along the ones I feel are above the noise and well worth the install on your iPhone.
I had been very excited at the outset to get ahold of some apps that would work with the camera to upload pics to many of the online services. One of the first ones I tried was SmugShot, the app to integrate with your SmugMug account. While I am huge SmugMug fan, many of us know that the masses are on flickr, and least causally. The other day I saw someone had uploaded a photo to flickr with AirMe, so I headed over the the App Store and downloaded it, all free. I must say I have been pretty impressed with the app. It does exactly what I want it to do, all with very little fuss. Connecting it to my Flickr account was a breeze.
Today I was out with and decided to give it a good go. I took a few pics and let it upload to Flickr. I had a pretty slow connection, so I decided to wait till I got home to check out my handy work. The pics looked 
great and something caught my attention as I browsed through them, the tags. I was pretty showed to see that the AirMe app had done great in tagging the pics with my location, city, that it was taken from an iPhone, the AirMe tag, and also something that really surprised me, the current weather conditions. Apparently it interface with the Weatherbug app also installed and got a quick snapshot of the conditions and put them in as tags also.
This is pretty good integration. In looking at the apps home page, it looks like that have some other nice features on the way:
Our 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 versions have a lot of cool features, like:
- more smart tags
- Exif data – yes, tons of custom data coming
- add/change/delete title/tags to photo post upload
- upload from existing camera roll (we put the new AirMe photos in the roll!)
- delete only on iphone, only on Flickr (or your destination site), or all (currently the app deletes on both)
- add Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, MySpace, Orkut
- and, many more to come!
I would totally recommend this app to anyone with the iPhone and wants a easy way to upload their mobile pics to flickr with no more effort than snapping the moment.
