anyone, this parser will help you ‘steal’ high res photos from Yahoo.

http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/

And after logging in, I can see my full res version. In the available sizes an option appears saying “Original Size”.

@Abhi: Flickr doesn’t show full res images for free members, only for pro. That was the same with Y! Photos, only the pro members could see full res. So the services aren’t different in that sense. Both have no storage limits – Flickr AND Y! Photos both offered unlimited, the second service had that thing since a long time ago; while Picasa Web has a storage restriction. As for running Gallery2, yes, that’s a good option, but I do think Flickr is a better photo sharing platform. And I’ve been a user of Kodak EasyShare Gallery too, even that is pretty nice, but…more people have a Yahoo! / Google ID and therefore more people have access to Flickr / Picasa Web and therefore I’d consider these two better photo sharing platforms.

Picasa Web is not trying to compete with Flickr but they certainly were competing with Yahoo Photos!. Photos and Flickr which are two radically different services.

One is a like a publishing platform and the other is a sharing platform.

Flickr and Picasa Webs are the only two services that let you look at high res pics without having to login. Both at the same time have options to limit this feature too.

You should in fact talk about the Kodak service rather than Picasa Webs. When Google builds a service it builds it looking at accessibility. Flickr is extremely slow, not at all close to GAMMA stage and isn’t compatible fully with Safari.

I should say Y!Photos users are being blessed by the removal of the service as Y! automatically reduced the quality of photos after uploading (to save bandwidth, presumably) and if you were going to use it as a photo backup service you would be disappointed.

Flickr Pro is useless for those who have domain names and hosting and can install Gallery2.