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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Flickr Sudoku 1.3

I'm sorry I'll stop banging on about this eventually, but I'm still enjoying tinkering with Flickr Sudoku!

I've had it up on the blocks in the garage again and made some improvements. Version 1.3 features:
  • Multiple AND tag searches. You can now search for pictures that match more than one tag, by separating the tag names with commas. For example, using "sky, tree" would show 10 random pictures with the tags "sky" and "tree".
    It will also handle searches for tags with spaces, so that "cat fish" will find images tagged with "catfish" or "cat fish", whereas "cat, fish" will find pictures tagged with "cat" and "fish".
  • "Just get new pictures" button. You can now get a different set of pictures without destroying your work so far. This is handy if you want to see the same puzzle with a different tag or username, or you have two pictures in your stream that are very similar, or you've just got a boring set of pics.
  • Larger search base. The pictures are now chosen from a pool of up to 500. So if you create a puzzle using pictures from your own photo stream you can expect to see some older pictures turn up, and it's less likely you'll get two similar pictures.
  • Better randomness. The system for choosing random images, er, wasn't very random. Now it is. Completely.
  • More puzzles. I sat down and added a dozen or so puzzles to the XML puzzle database. And now each one has a "friendly name" to add a bit of interest.
  • Save your progress.You can now create a bookmark that stores precisely how far you've got with a puzzle, along with your settings for picture size, etc. You can even email a puzzle to someone else, if you know what you're doing.
I promise to blog about something else now. :-)
pia  I have no idea what you're talking about but I can't even get the RSS feed to work ;-) 
Becky  You can't get my RSS feed to work Pia? :-S 
Becky  Oh yeah... it's not working. :-S

Crappy feedburner!

Okay... I'll turn the RSS feed off until I can fix it. Can you use the Atom feed instead? 
Nick  I dont know what all this feed stuff is about, but thanks for letting me know that I'm not even clever enough for WWF Wrestling Sudoku :( 
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Aaron H  Wow. The Flickr Sudoku is great! I'm already hooked.

If I could make one suggestion it would be that the thicker lines between the groups of 3 should be darker or offset more to make the groups more clear. Otherwise, it's perfect! 

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