Flickr CC Attribution Helper is a little hack/tool I created, use and maintain since 2009 to make cut and paste of Creative Commons attribution for flickr photos a one click deal.
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by EMSL In the carefully controlled laboratory where I do my coding… no in actuality more like a scene from some ghastly middle school cafeteria food fight. This all started when a friend showed me a creative commons licensed photo that my creative commons attribution […]
Sadly, Google made it harder impossible to install the flickr creative commons attribution helper script directly from the Userscripts site. As alerted by George Couros, clicking that Install button in Chrome now gives you: Apparently in the name of “security” Google is taking a page from Apple: We’re constantly looking out for ways to make […]
It was an all day journey to get home from Canada (Edmonton to Minneapolis to Phoenix by plane, then drive to Strawberry), and after dumping the bags and shredding the junk mail, I got distracted. Two hours later, I realized it was late. But if you have not heard, flickr has a preview of a […]
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 […]
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 […]
