So after I rolled out the new default templates for Tabulas, I've been dying to clean up the gallery views. Well, mission accomplished. The gallery is much, much simpler now (I took some design cues from Facebook, clearly).

Even better, I've bumped up the quality of images used in the gallery up a notch; the default views now use the 720-wide images (what I call the "medium-large") and utilize the ever-nifty lightbox to jazz up the views. Going through albums is easy-breezy - scroll, or activate the lightbox by clicking any of the images in this sample album.

But that's not the only thing - there has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work lately to integrate with Flickr.

The idea is that you want to integrate your Flickr photos into your Tabulas stream as seamlessly as possible.

Well, check out the end-result. That gallery has 26 images - 25 are directly from my Flickr account, while the last one is posted to that Tabulas account. Don't you love how seamless it is?

And for users, synchronizing is going to be easy - all you need to do is link the accounts, and Tabulas will do the sync automatically!

And even better - each Flickr image is treated like a real image in Tabulas; you can delete them, rename them, reorder them, etc. In essence, I've copied pointers to Flickr images directly in Tabulas. 

I love how easy Flickr's API has been to use - the dreams of APIs and intermingling of data is finally coming true!

This feature isn't ready yet - there are a whole lot of minor details I need to work out, but I just felt so excited that I wanted to share it!