Photos For Your Folks

Displays a random photo from a Flickr album in your new tab.
What is Photos For Your Folks?
Photos For Your Folks is a Chrome extension that displays a random photo from a designated Flickr album in your new tab. It allows you to curate photos for your loved ones to see automatically, making it great for couples with little kids, travelers, and a nice way to share what's going on in your life with loved ones.

Extension stats

Users: 11
Version: 0.3 (Last updated: 2015-02-17)
Creation date: 2015-02-16
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 65.42K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Do your parents always want to, like, talk to you on the phone. Are they always asking you to send them pictures? The hope is that this extension will help--if only a little :)

Enter the Flickr album number that you want to pull photos from, and you will see a random picture from that collection each time you open a new tab. This allows you to curate photos in Flickr that your loved ones will see automatically.

I made this originally for my parents. I was hosting my photos on Flickr, and even though I gave them the link to all of my pictures, they continued asking me to email them photos. I set this up so that they get random photos that I've taken--all throughout their days. I set up one album on Flickr dedicated to this application, and gave my folks that album number to enter in the input field. Now, after I go on a trip I remove all the old photos in that album and fill it with new pictures from the trip. This allows them to constantly see new photos from my life, without needing to go anywhere on the internet.

I think this would be great for couples who have little kids to set up for grandma and grandpa. For people who like to travel. And as a nice way for people to share with loved ones what's going on in their lives--in a way that can be SEEN.

Once you enter the album number, it will remain as long as you are logged into the browser.

In short, I hope this makes a nice digital picture frame that one can come to throughout the day using Chrome.

Please let me know of any feedback, questions, suggestions, or comments--either in the Reviews or you can email me at cmmnnighthawk[at]gmail[dot]com.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Photos For Your Folks requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Photos For Your Folks has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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