zFlick - installation and use

This week, the Zentangle blog (in this article) wrote about a neat, free utility designed for searching through all the many images and photographs on Flickr.  This is an absolutely wonderful tool for browsing Zentangle and ZIA* on Flickr.  You can search for specific tangle examples, tangly themes, ZIA done with different methods and materials, and more.

I installed zFlick straight away on my laptop, and have been having lots of fun with it ever since.  So I decided to put together a couple of very short videos to show people how easy it is to install and to use. 

Note: if you have a slow connection, or the video keeps stopping instead of playing smoothly all the way through – just press the pause button and wait until the faint red progress bar§ has filled all the way to the right hand side before watching the video.  This is a useful tip whenever you are watching YouTube (or other online video content).  If the video quality is fuzzy on the blog page - click on the video screen where the YouTube logo appears to watch the video on YouTube, where it may be a little clearer.

First, a brief video showing the installation of zFlick   

And now, a video demonstrating it in use

Here are some fun searches to try, once you have zFlick up and running

• zentangle watercolor (and 'zentangle watercolour' – since it can be spelled both ways!)
• zentangle alphabet
• zentangle bookmark
• zentangle ixorus
• zentangle artoo
• zentangle calligraphy
• zentangle christmas
• zentangle quilt
• zentangle mandala
• zentangle ensemble
• zentangle kit (of course!)

Go, install, search, and find all that tangly deliciousness, just waiting for you on Flickr.

Have fun everyone — I certainly have!

Notes
Wallpaper photograph in the video, © Kit Murdoch, 2010.
Videos show installation and use on a PC, using Windows 7. [A desktop-how-to video by Kit.]
* ZIA = Zentangle inspired art (pron. rhymes with 'mia' in Abba's Mamma Mia). 
§ the red progress bar's position is indicated with a yellow arrow in the image below (if you wait until it has filled all the way to the right, the video will play all the way through smoothly)