Surely you’ve come across a dreaded orphan Flickr JPG in your days perusing Tumblr or skimming through bit.lyied URLs on Twitter. It’s the worst feeling to find a really cool photograph but be completely without power in finding the photographer. Naturally you want to see more photographs from this artist, but the image links to the direct JPG instead of the Flickr page. Damn the Tumblr-ettes and -ites for their complete disregard of proper attribution!
The Flickr URL Converter by projectdxtr (naturally of the Netherlands) can take your standalone Flickr JPG and re-direct you to the original source of such artistic beauty. The tool is a thing of wonder and performs this miraculous conversion seemingly by magic. To take your Flickr JPG image conversion needs one step further, you could install a Firefox extension offered by the author that allows you to right-click on an image and select convert from the context menu.
Even better though, you can utilize the search box on the Flickr URL converter page to create a keyword search that makes finding the Flickr source as easy as appending a keyword sequence in front of the JPG URL. Simply navigate to the Flickr URL Converter page and within the search box, right click and select “Add a Keyword for this Search…” as shown in the screenshot below.
After that, you will be presented with a dialog box asking for you to fill in the details concerning your new keyword search. Give your keyword search an appropriate title and a nifty keyword sequence. This is key because it needs to be something you can remember that is also unique. I call mine “flcon.”
After that, converting an orphaned Flickr JPG is as easy as appending your keyword sequence in the front of the JPG URL in the address bar.
The process is functionally the same in Opera except the context menu item you would select is called “Create Search…” Presently, both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome lack the feature to manually add search forms from the right-click menu though with Chrome, you could potentially add the search engine from a keyword search manager if you can figure out how the form operates.
Flickr URL Converter [projectdxtr.nl]
This entry was written by panoptican, posted on 10 September 2009 at 10:52, filed under Hacking and tagged Chrome, Firefox, Flickr, Keyword searches, Opera. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
So you want an easy way to download and save all of your pictures from Facebook? Perhaps Facebook’s mass sale of your data has you feeling paranoid? Maybe the whole social networking thing has become overly time consuming, pointless and petty? Perchance our generations growing detachment and increasingly infantalized minds has you worried for the future of our planet? I suppose you could just want all of your pictures, and your friend’s pictures, and anyone else who is randomly your “friend” on Facebook’s pictures too saved locally and accessible while your offline. It’s an understandable desire; often I wish I could spend long flights across the country looking at that 100+ picture set of last night’s party.
FacePAD is a Firefox extension that enables you to download entire photo albums on Facebook be they your own, your friends or even event-related with just a simple mouse click. Photo albums saved to your hard disk via FacePAD will automatically be saved to your Firefox default download folder. If you’d like to prevent a massive mess in your default downloads folder, I suggest you download albums one at a time and then spend some time relocating them to a logical folder. The filename structure of saved photographs is not pretty (probably something like n8605443_46897211_2166.jpg, as was the case with one of my photographs) so if that bothers you, you will need to employ a filename renaming program to assign more descriptive filenames to each JPG.
To use FacePAD, simply right-click on the photo album you wish to make your own and select the “Download Album with FacePAD” option from the context menu. Thereafter, a JavaScript prompt will materialize, indicating that the download process has begun. FacePAD uses some JavaScript trickery to scan through each page of the album, saving each photo as it blows through the contents of the album. As such, smaller albums will be downloaded almost instantaneously whereas larger albums might take a few moments. If you need more direction then I have thus given you, the developer of FacePAD has put together a full-tutorial utilizing the wondrous world of live action video. His video is available for viewing at YouTube.
Download FacePAD [addons.mozilla.org]
This entry was written by panoptican, posted on 7 September 2009 at 15:06, filed under Downloads and tagged Facebook, Firefox, Firefox extensions. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.