Configurable Flickr Homepage with Greasemonkey

Posted on November 27 2008 by Bryan Partington

So maybe you didn't like flickr's recent homepage change very much... whatever can you do? Maybe you want to be able to more easily shift between recent activity on you own photos, and recent activity on others. For that there...

Exploring flickr with inSuggest

Posted on November 22 2008 by Bryan Partington

Im gettin bugged driving up and down the same old strip I gotta finda new place where the kids are hip Flickr fatigue. Yes, it exists. When you've collected hundreds if not thousands of contacts of diverging styles and...

Tit for Tat

Posted on October 10 2008 by Bryan Partington

Do people comment on your photos? Do you find it awkward to visit each and every photostream to return the favour? A new feed allows you to browse photos from people who have commented on yours.

Sync a folder to flickr with Foldr Monitr

Posted on October 03 2007 by Bryan Partington

Foldr Monitr is a free tool that runs in the background and watches a selected folder (and optionally subfolders) waiting for you to add photos to it. When photos appear in the folder, Foldr Monitr automatically uploads them to...

Flickr Contacts in Explore

Posted on August 15 2007 by Bryan Partington

"Flickr Contacts in Explore" is a Web Based Flickr Utility that, you know, shows you photos from your contacts that happen to be in 'Explore'. If you find Explore a little anti-social and impersonal, this might help you find photos...

Migratr - Migrate Between Photo Services

Posted on August 05 2007 by Bryan Partington

There are lots of photo sharing services out there these days, and many of them have APIs that allow applications to interact with them. The problem is that these various services don't interact with each other very much, so spreading...

Flickr Infinite Scroll

Posted on April 19 2007 by Bryan Partington

Flickr Infinite Scroll is a greasemonkey script by Mortimer? that lets you scroll down a flickr photostream without having to click to get to the next page. You just keep scrolling, and script adds on photos as you go. It's...

Flickr Can't Fail

Posted on March 16 2007 by Bryan Partington

When flickr rolled out their new layout options, one thing really bugged me. Okay, two things really bugged me. One was the thin, grey dotted line that was added between the 'user links' and the top photo[s] on the first...

MOST "INTERESTING" SUPERCHARTS!!!11

Posted on January 19 2007 by Bryan Partington

Flickr hacking wunderkind mortimer? has been scanning the daily top 50 'most interesting' photos and checking up on which groups the photos are in and what kinds of cameras are producing them. The results are accessible every day from his...

A Year of Sunsets

Posted on December 07 2006 by Bryan Partington

Way back in February 2005, Flickr API meastro jbum created a neato-keen graph of all the photos tagged "sunset" on flickr. Graphing the photos by time, mister jbum was able to show a wave of sunsets, ebbing and flowing with...

Scratch a Squircle!

Posted on December 05 2006 by Bryan Partington

One of the most fun flickr toys i've seen in a while, Quasimondo's wicked Picturedisko flash application lets you search through the Squared Circle group pool, grab photos and play them on a virtual turntable. You know .. as if...

juploadr

Posted on December 02 2006 by Bryan Partington

Following yesterday's post about Fotofox, I figured that it might be cool to do a post on an old standby and my personal favourite way to get photos up on flickr .. juploadr! Juploadr is a cross platform application, so...

Fotofox

Posted on December 01 2006 by Bryan Partington

The official flickr uploadr is keen and everything, but in certain ways it is somewhat lacking. For one, it can't apply tags on a per-photo basis as it uploads, which is a real shame. Recently I came across Fotofox, a...

Invite Pool Sweepr

Posted on October 25 2006 by Bryan Partington

Invite Pool Sweepr describes itself as: "a program that sweeps through an invite only photo pool and locates uninvited photos that can then be removed from the pool by the group admin." It hasn't been released as yet, but the...

Favorites Explorer

Posted on October 17 2006 by Bryan Partington

A lot of people mark a lot of flickr favourites, but there's not a lot you can do with your favourites after you have them. You can't sort them and you can't search them and you can't share them beyond...

Flickr Sudoku

Posted on October 05 2006 by Bryan Partington

Okay, so I don't really "GET" the appeal of Sudoku to most people. My theory is that it sequesters the conscious mind in some kind of repeating cognitive loop where time passes at an alarming rate, allowing people to kill...

Utata Does DILO

Posted on September 23 2006 by Bryan Partington

Two weeks ago, we interviewed Nicola Warwick about the "A Day in the Life of.." [DILO] group, and the impending photo spree that would be September 23rd, 2006. Well it's that time, and Utata has made the endeavour into a...

GM Script - "Follow Comments you've made"

Posted on September 21 2006 by Bryan Partington

Oh greasemonkey developers of flickr, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways .. From mortimer? comes this super handy script that will finally give you some control over the "Comments you've made" page. You know, the page...

Geotagging Week - Tag it up with Google Earth

Posted on September 01 2006 by Bryan Partington

Perhaps the single greatest complaint regarding flickr's new Geotagging functionality is the lack of street level coverage that yahoo maps provides for many regions of the world. Flickr has responded to this need by opening up Geotagging data through the flickr API, allowing outside developers to add increased functionality on top of flickr's maps...

Where I stand or What I shoot?

Posted on August 30 2006 by Bryan Partington

Ah, the Statue of Liberty, beacon to the telephotocally well-endowed. When Geotagging photos of such a beautiful landmark, often from locations at a great distance, an interesting question emerges... "Where the heck do I drop the dot?"

Greasemonkey Round-up

Posted on August 20 2006 by Bryan Partington

To polish of this very greasy weekend on the Ink, Sunday Salon excepted, I thought I'd post some links to some user scripts that are great for people just dipping their toes into the bottomless pool of viscous liquid that is Greasemonkey.

Flickr Storm

Posted on August 12 2006 by Bryan Partington

aFlickr Storm runs simultaneous searches through full text and tags, presenting the results one beneath the other on a single page.

Keeping track of Utata's 30 day limit

Posted on August 11 2006 by Bryan Partington

Utata has a rule limiting the number of additional groups that photos added to the Utata pool may also be added to. This limit expires after 30 days. Here is a nifty tool for helping you navigate this limit.

Browsing Tips for Flickr

Posted on August 11 2006 by Bryan Partington

Some simple but nifty tips for browsing flickr, especially useful for those of you who don't are wary of, or left unsatisfied by feed readers.