Flickr has recently added a few very desirable features that have been on the wishlist for some time. Photo printing was added as a feature just a couple of weeks ago. Prices are competitive, and you can pick up prints at your local Target store in just over an hour. They have also teamed with QOOP for printing more than just the normal 4×6” prints that’ll sit in that box on the shelf forever. QOOP will print posters and photo books, as well. At $15, the books are pretty nifty. I ordered one as a test and they’re not bad. The cover is nice and glossy; my only complaint is that the inside pages are not. They’re nice laser paper, and the printing is done with a nice color laser printer, it seems, so for the price its not bad.

Flickr also added replacement of photos. If you’re logged in to flickr, go to the photo page of the photo you want to replace. There is now a link at far bottom right you can click to replace the photo. I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t know what happens after that, but it’s a step in the right direction. I have a number of photos that I uploaded before I knew of jhead, so they are missing exif info. Since flickr is good at showing all of the interesting exif data, I would like to replace some of those photos with versions that have exif. I’ll be sure to post any issues here.

And, if you have yet to jump on the flickr bandwagon, sign up today. If you have a Yahoo! login already (i.e. you have a Yahoo! email address or you have some variant of SBC DSL), signing up is as simple as entering your Yahoo ID on the signup page. Give it a shot, it’s free for a simple account.