As many of you probably know, I post a lot of photos on Flickr and when you start to use it a lot, you start to spent large amounts of time on it, since you have a lot of new photos by your contacts that you want to take a look at and you might also be spending a lot of time interacting with other users in the Flickr groups. This can suck up a lot of your time and while Flickr is already very easy to navigate, there are some things that could be better. For this there are some utilities that can make your life easier and your Flickr browsing easier/ more efficient. Today I want to focus on some Greasemonkey scripts that I have found very useful. If you don’t know what Greasemonkey is, it’s a Firefox extension that allows scripts to alter the way a website looks and/or behaves. If you are using Safari as your browser, you can try out GreaseKit, which allows you to run the with Safari but not all scripts work and none do with Safari 4 (at least non of mine).

Here are my favorite scripts:

• Flickr Refer Comment - this script will automatically add a line of text at the end of your comment on a photo stating where you found the photo (e.g. your Flickr homepage, a group page, etc.). This won’t help you but is very helpful for the person you leave the comment. For other browsers you can find a little bookmarklet for doing the same thing by clicking here.
• Flickr Rich Edit - this script will add little buttons to your comment box so that you can access bold, italic, link and quote with the click of a button instead of having to add the HTML code.
• Flickr - Move commet form up - this script is one of my favorites - it will move the comment box under the photo instead of having it at the end of the page. This means that you won’t have to scroll down all the way to leave a comment. I tend to leave a lot more comments with this enabled.
• Flickr Auto Page - another one of my favorites. This script eliminates the need to click on the next page link when you are viewing photos in Flickr, it will automatically load the next page beneath the current one in the same window/ on the same page. With this enabled I breeze through 10 pages of photos without even realizing it.
• FlickrPM - this script will add several links/icons next to a username. These will allow you to access their photostream, their profile, their favorites etc. with the click of a button.
• Flickr Buddy Icon Reply - this script is especially useful when you interact with a lot of users in the Flickr groups. With this you can either add a users name to your comment box or their little avatar, so that you don’t have to type the name when you are replying directly to someone.
• Flickr AllSize+ - this script is pretty useful if you either post in a lot of groups or like to share your photos outside of flickr using your flickr photos. The magnifying glass will bring you to an intermediate screen including all the links to the different sizes of your photo - making it way faster to access them.
• Flickr On Black Buttons - This script will add two buttons allowing you to show the photo on a black background instead of the standard white one of Flickr - a lot of them really pop on black.

if you want some more scripts to check out, here are some more links:

Best Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts
10 Must Have Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts
10 Really Useful Flickr Greasemonkey Userscripts
Scripts tagged Flickr on userscripts.org

Am I missing any essentials? What are you doing to increase your efficiency?

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Sorry, I haven’t posted in way to long but I have been pretty busy with school But nevertheless, I want to show you my Flickr Favorites from the last three weeks. Most of these pictures are from my contacts on flickr - two especially, whose photos I really love: yappingjak and BigCatLover. Both take very different photos - yappingjak has an incredible distinc stlye for Macro flower pictures and BigCatLover does what his name implies: he takes absolutely stunning pictures of Big Cats.
As always, my short disclaimer: The photos belong to the artists who have posted them on Flickr and if you like one of the pics be so kind and visit their pics on flickr and comment on the pics or even fave them, too.
Enjoy






Following this stunning pictures are my uploads to Flickr in the last few weeks:

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Summary: Here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 14 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.
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Summary: I’m back again. So here they are : my new favorites from Flickr for the last two weeks. A total of 14 new favorites and my new shots, too.
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Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 23 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.
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Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 25 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.
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Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 58 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.
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Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 56 new favorites this week and a lot of animal and landscape shots this week, too.
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Summary: Some of you might remember that I used to do a post with my favorites from Zooomr and DeviantART each week. I got out of the habit because I didn’t have the time for it but I want to try this again - but this time with the favorites from Flickr. Below you see my favorites from the last week - starting with the first one, going all the way to my most recent favorite. All of them provide the links to the pictures on Flickr - so if you like some of the shots, head over to Flickr and leave those guys and gals some comments or favorite their pictures, too.
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Summary: Some of you might remember that I used to do a post with my favorites from Zooomr and DeviantART each week. I got out of the habit because I didn’t have the time for it but I want to try this again - but this time with the favorites from Flickr. Below you see my favorites from the last week - starting with the first one, going all the way to my most recent favorite. All of them provide the links to the pictures on Flickr - so if you like some of the shots, head over to Flickr and leave those guys and gals some comments or favorite their pictures, too.
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Tags: Flickr Favorites, Photo