UserScript Spotlight: Google Image Relinker

Posted At : August 13, 2009 8:25 AM | Posted By : Erik Vold
Tags: Usability, UserScripts, Daily UserScript, Productivity, Google Images

There are so many good UserScripts, it's hard to keep track of them all; you could spend days flipping through the userscripts at userscripts.org. So I have decided to put a spotlight on some good ones I find to spread the word and thank the scriptwrights for their hard work.

Today I want to point out a userscript for Google Images which fixes the image link for search results to link directly to the image, and not the Google Images iframe for the image which is the default and sucks.

Spotlight: Google Image Relinker

Author: Patrick Cavit
Userscripts.org Page

The Daily UserScript: Google Images Smush It Link

Posted At : August 13, 2009 2:52 AM | Posted By : Erik Vold
Tags: UserScripts, Daily UserScript, Productivity, Automation, WebDev, Google Images

Today's userscript adds "Smush It!" links to Google Images results, which makes use of the Yahoo! YSlow Smush.it web service.

The Unpleasantry:

When I'm searching through images on Google Images and I find something that I want to use, I naturally want to smush it using Yahoo! YSlow Smush.it, but to do that I have first get the url of the image, then go to Smush.it, paste the image url and hit the "Smush" button.

The Alleviation:

Once you install the "Google Images Smush It Link" UserScript there will be a link added to each image result which will enable you to quickly smush the image.

Screen Shots:

Before: Google Image search result before installing the Google Images Smush It Link userscript.

After: Google Image search result after installing the Google Images Smush It Link userscript.

After: Google Image search result after clicking the provided 'Smush It!' link.