Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection made a nice post entitled Top 10 Hacks on flickr, which mentioned a couple of things I knew about as well as a couple of Greasemonkey scripts which proved immediately useful. My favorites include:
- Slickr: a great way to make flickr photos into a screensaver
- flickr rich edit Greasemonkey script: adds bold, italic, and link tools above comment text entry boxes in flickr.
- flickr multi group sender Greasemonkey script: replaces the very slow “add to group” button in flickr, allowing for sending to multiple groups at once; indispensable!
- flickr Leech: displays up to 200 thumbnails at a time, allowing you to quickly become acquainted with a photographer’s work.
While I’m at it, I guess I should mention a couple of things that weren’t in his list that I find useful:
- add referrer into comments Greasemonkey script: I wish this sort of “trackback” was something that flickr included by default. When you comment on someone’s photo, this script adds a line telling that user how you came upon their photo (e.g. a search, a particular set, the Explore page). I wish more people installed this one when viewing my photos!
- Groupr: allows you to quickly browse through photo groups you’ve subscribed to by downloading thumbnails.
- flickr Scout: one of the many cool tools at fd’s flickr toys, this one tells you which of your photographs have made it to the flickr “Explore” page. However, as mentioned on the page, this can be “bad for your mental health.”
