![]() The screen shows roughly three main sections. Once that had been done, I was greeted by the PhotoSync configuration screen. Once that was done, authorizing the add-in was as simple as logging in. I didn’t have a Flickr account, so I opened a browser window and used my musty, mothballed Yahoo! ID to create my Flickr account. When I reconnected, I was told that I’d have to authorize PhotoSync to work with my Flickr account. I had to disconnect and reconnect the console, not an unusual step when installing or uninstalling an add-in. msi file to the server’s “software\Add-Ins” folder and install the add-in itself from the console. zip file is a reasonably sized 1.37 MB, and installation was as simple as WHS users have grown to expect. Besides, “beta” doesn’t mean quite the same thing it did ten years ago. But in this case, it appears from that forum post that this beta was released about two years ago (June 21, 2007, to be precise), so it seems pretty likely that this version is as final as we’re going to get. Ordinarily, it might not be entirely fair to review a beta version of an add-in. zip file has Beta2 in the title, so it appears that this is only a half-finished version. Not appearing in the screenshot is the “Release History.” Scrolling down reveals that this is the “initial release.” According to the We Got Served forum post containing the download, this is version 0.9.93, and the. As you can see, the download page is unassuming. Let’s take a closer look at my week with PhotoSync. Aside from the fact that features are pretty much non-existent, even the few things it can do don’t work well. Unfortunately, this crude implementation falls flat. If you store your photos on a server, you could simply arrange them as you like, and let the server itself handle the uploading, tagging, arranging into sets, permissions, etc. In theory, an add-in like this sounds fantastic. What better way than through looking at the PhotoSync add-in for Windows Home Server? Still, it’s pretty much impossible to avoid these days-even if I wanted to-and it seemed like I’d get sucked in sooner or later. I’ve just never felt the need to post all my photos online. Even as a tech-savvy person, I never really got into Flickr.
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