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I often use Flickr to look for interesting photos to use in mockups. I’m usually looking for a certain subject, so Flickr tags are a great fit for this. Trouble is it involves a few too many clicks and becomes frustrating if you do it repeatedly, plus Flickr searches default to ‘Most recent’ which are usually a bit dull.

So I made a little bookmarklet that I keep in my browser toolbar. Click it and it gives you a prompt box, enter the subject/tag you are looking for and you’ll be redirected straight to a Flickr results page filtered by ‘Most interesting’. Six clicks reduced down to just one!

Just bookmark this link or drag and drop it to your toolbar…
Find interesting pics of ‘whatever’ at Flickr

You’ve gotta hand it to the people at flickr, they do make some cool stuff, check out this neat little flash gizmo, my new flickr badge!!!

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Really simple, quick and easy to put together, and as soon as i saw it, i wanted one too, i have a feeling this will really catch on, bet this isnt the last one you’ll see…

P.S. I chose to feature my ‘graphix’ set in this badge, mostly work created with fantasy festival posters in mind.