Pointless Fun with Flickr

You're an old pro at Flickr by now. You have your entire digital photo collection uploaded to the popular photo-sharing site, your whole collection is tagged, and you've joined a few groups to show off your best work. That's all fun, but what do you do now?

Fortunately, a lot of different tools developed alongside Flickr as the site became more and more popular. There's a lot of different ways to take your photos off the site and do some unique things with them. Are they helpful? Not really. But they sure are fun.

Play some Sudoku
http://www.beckysweb.co.uk/sudoku/flickrsudoku.asp
Trade in those pesky numbers for your own photos at this online Sudoku game. Just enter your username at the bottom of the page, and the site will pull photos from your own collection and randomly place your pictures on the board. Normal Sudoku rules apply. The game even lets you enter a specific tag from your collections to limit your puzzle pieces further. But be careful - a lot of people are libel to get a little freaked out if they find you playing Sudoku entirely with their faces.

Make a motivational poster
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php
It seemed like five years ago, motivational posters were all the rage. Every office had one hanging on its wall, featuring a stunning photograph against a black background with a few pithy words underneath, preaching about ambition, teamwork, success, or some other desirable trait. If you yearn for those days when posters preached - or you want to make your own ironic interpretation - there's a site for you. The Motivator tool on Big Huge Labs lets you take any Flickr photo in your account and put it into a template for one of these posters. Slap some text on underneath, and you're good to go. Save it, print it or put it back in Flickr. Just don't expect it's going to do too much to boost morale - these posters went out of style for a reason.

This site has a lot of cool tools on it, like an Andy Warhol imitator, a movie poster maker, and a billboard creator. Don't just stop at the posters.