{"id":252,"date":"2014-07-16T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T05:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-07-16T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T10:18:16","slug":"finally-flickr-for-apple-tv-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/finally-flickr-for-apple-tv-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Flickr for Apple TV updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost four years since I bought my second Generation Apple TV, which I (still) really like for its capabilities, but there was one thing which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/apple-tv-2nd-generation-is-missing-one-big-feature\/\">annoyed me<\/a> right from day one:<br \/>\nFlickr integration was very limited. It wasn&#8217;t even possible to log into your Flickr account and view your private photos, only pictures you were sharing publicly were available via Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>What a surprise last week when I turned on my Apple TV, there was a new Flickr icon and yes, it got a nice visual refresh, new features and finally the possibility to log in and view your private pictures with its latest <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.net\/en\/2014\/06\/24\/introducing-a-new-flickr-experience-on-apple-tv\/\">update<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You can connect your Apple TV to your Flickr account by entering a code shown on your tv screen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/appletv\">flickr.com\/appletv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Apple TV team (thanks Michael if you are reading this), thanks Flickr.<br \/>\nI am not sure how much I will actually use this feature since iCloud Photo Library is coming with iOS 8 this fall, but it&#8217;s good to see such a substantial improvement also in a long time Apple TV feature.<\/p>\n<p>I am also waiting for an Apple TV SDK since my first WWDC in 2012. Maybe next year \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost four years since I bought my second Generation Apple TV, which I (still) really like for its capabilities, but there was one thing which annoyed me right from day one: Flickr integration was very limited. It wasn&#8217;t even possible to log into your Flickr account and view your private photos, only pictures &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/finally-flickr-for-apple-tv-updated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finally, Flickr for Apple TV updated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spidy.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}