Posts Tagged ‘greasemonkey’

I always provide links back to the source as attribution for the flickr creative commons photos I use. Today I ran into the not so surprising case of wondering what to do, and what the ramifications for, if the original is no longer there?
Here’s the case. A dark night in a web that knows [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by jamelah
Mmm, sliced bread!
So far maybe 140 people have installed my Flickr Creative Commons Attribution Helper- a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. I use the sucker almost every day.
It takes what used to be about a 5 click, 4 copy/paste operation to give me, in one motion, the HTML needed to [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by lamont_cranston
One of my primary uses of Google Search is locating URLs for web pages I am creating, blog posts, etc. The way Google outputs search results in a PITA as the links to the results are obfuscated in redirects through google (things they do to harvest our actions).
In [...]

I’ve seen it for a little while but just noticed more carefully that flickr has redesigned the results of its search. Previously you only got 10 results per page that required scrolling to review. Now you get a layout of smaller previews– and this is what is neat- the bigger you make your page, the [...]

This morning I drove down a new coding rode- I’ve never done a Greasemonkey script, so with some help poking around ones I have and Dive into Greasemonkey — here is my crude Flickr CC Attribution Helper.
What is does is adds a box on the right side of flickr photo pages — only for [...]