I usually don't use Flickr to store my images, instead I prefer to use my CalPoly alumni shell account to store any files that I want people to see. But I found this really cool virtual filesystem that allows you to access your Flickr files as a directory on a Linux machine. Its called Flickr FS and it acts like a normal filesystem. The nicest thing is that to search for a file, you create a directory with the tags you want to search for. Example:
# pwd /tmp/flickrfs/tags/public
# mkdir linux:ubuntu
Now FlickFS will search in the background (multi-threaded W00T!), and you can access the directory as the search results are updated. Way neat, and if you are a heavy Flickr user, check it out.
