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Friday, 7 September 2012

Flickr: List all Photo Sizes directly

If you want to view a photo on the popular photo hosting site Flickr in its original size, you need to click your way through a number of pages before you finally reach the page where available photo resolutions can be selected. It takes two clicks from the original photo page on Flickr to get to the page listing all the photos, and another click to display the photo in the selected size on the website.

The Show All Sizes userscript for Flickr reduces the clicks to one. Once you have installed the userscript in your web browser, you will notice that it is automatically adding all available photo sizes to individual photo pages on Flickr.

flickr photo sizes

These link directly to all available sizes that the photographer or uploader has made available on Flickr. A click on one of the resolutions that are displayed underneath the photo loads the image itself in the browser. The numbers that you see listed there are the width of the image, with the height not being displayed at all.

The script is useful for Flickr users who would like to view the image in a different resolution on Flickr without clicking through to do just that. It is obviously also great for users who would like to use a photo on Flickr as their new desktop background image. Make sure you look at the license information before you download and use it for a purpose though.

The Show All Sizes userscript has been tested running the Firefox web browser with Greasemonkey installed. When I tried to install the userscript in Chrome I got a strange error message:

Install Failure: Extensions, apps and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site.

install failure

It appears as if the userscripts website has been blocked in the Chrome web browser. Can anyone confirm that?

Show All Sizes is a useful userscript for Flickr regulars who wish to optimize their workflow on the photo hosting site.

Flickr AllSizes Userscript
Retrieve Original Size Of Any Flickr Photo
Direct Thumbnail To Full Size Photo Link On Flickr
Flickr Photo Downloader, Download Public Flickr Photos In Bulk
Identify The Digital Camera A Photo Was Taken With On Flickr

About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.Author: Martin Brinkmann, Monday June 11, 2012 -
Tags:flickr, userscripts

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Sunday, 25 March 2012

Resize Images Directly On Web Pages In Firefox

It happens that you stumble upon a site where images are posted that are simply to small to make out all of the details. Some let you view a larger version of the image when you click on it, while others do not offer larger versions of the images at all. This can be a problem, for instance on shopping sites if you’d like to zoom in on a photo of an item that you consider purchasing.

We have covered extensions and userscripts before that can do that, like the Image Zooming extension or the userscripts Mouseover Popup Image Viewer and Zoom Image.

The Image Resizer/Scaler extension offers a different solution, that many Firefox users may find more comfortable and less obtrusive to use. Instead of zooming an image on mouse over, or on right-click, the extension adds drag zooming to the web browser.

All that it takes to zoom an image is to hold down the left mouse button while the mouse cursor hovers over it, to either zoom in or out by moving the mouse into the upper left or lower right direction. The cursor changes once you start moving the mouse to indicate that you can now zoom in or out with the mouse.

You need to keep in mind though that the image is limited to the space it was posted on, which means that you may not see all of the image if you zoom out to much. This is for instance the case on Google+ where images cannot go beyond the post width.

Two additional features have been added by the author of the extension. A right-click on the image resets it to its original size, while a double-click maximizes it automatically. You can also hold down the Ctrl key to disable the feature for the time being on the current page.

All in all a useful extension for users who want mouse image zooming capabilities in the browser.

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Friday, 16 March 2012

SFunKey, Make Fn Key Actions Directly Accessible

Many notebooks, laptops and netbooks ship with a smaller sized keyboard that lacks some of the keys that are on standard sized keyboards. This often includes media keys like play, pause or changing the volume, but also keys like numlock or other numpad keys. These keys are usually removed because of size constraints. Manufacturers add the Fn key (short for function) instead to those keyboards to allow users to access those keys in a different way.

Most laptop keyboards display a key’s Fn action in blue on the keyboard. To activate one of the features, one has to press the Fn key and the key the function is mapped to.

Function key layouts may differ depending on the manufacturer of the laptop. Media keys most of the time are mapped to the F-key bar at the top.

One of the issues here is that it is often not that comfortable to use these keys. It may be difficult to nearly impossible to use the functionality with just one hand.

SfunKey has been designed to provide comfortable access to some of the extra keys. It maps a total of 12 keys to the F-keys on the keyboard. These features can now be activated by pressing the key twice on the keyboard, which is more comfortable than having to use the Fn key with one of the F-keys.

The following actions are available after the portable program has been launched (from F1 to F12): Sleep, LCD Brightness-. LCD Brightness+, Connect to Projector, Lock PC, Task Manager, Volume Mute, Volume-, Volume+, Previous Track, Play/Pause, Next Track.

sfunkey

The F12 key is not active by default, as it is often reserved by the system.

The program displays selected actions in an on screen display by default which can be disabled in the program settings.

Incompatible programs can be added to the compatibility listing which blocks program features when those applications are running on the system. This may be useful for full screen games for instance.

SFunKey is a handy portable program for mobile users who prefer to access media actions and other actions without the Fn key. The program is compatible with all recent 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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