I’ve been looking around for a way to quickly upload images to the web without having to deal with any dialogs, menus or captchas, but to my utter surprise - I couldn’t find one that worked with multiple files, spaces, etc. So I decided to make one on my own. My first idea was to create a gnome panel applet that you could simply drop an image on top of, have it be uploaded somewhere and get the URL to it on the copyboard. However, that idea turned out to be horribly complex - and I don’t think panel applets support drag-and-drop anyway.

So instead I created a nautilus script! It was quite complicated to get it to work, for reasons I’m not going to go into now, but at least it works. You can select one or more files, right-click and goto scripts → Upload to Imgur and the script sorts out any files that aren’t permitted and then uploads the ones that are. What you get back is a set of newline delimited URLs to your uploaded images - straight into your copyboard, so all you have to do is press Ctrl +V to use them.

Download

Downloads are available from Gnome-Look.org. Simply run the installation script to install.

If you’re not a member of the Swedish community ungdomar.se or any of the other sites from the same company (e.g. gameplayer.se) this article will be of very little use to you. However, if you are a member of said community, I will show you how to get data from there onto your desktop using a little bit of Bash magic combined with the power of Conky. Even if you don’t care about ungdomar.se, the same techniques that I’m going to show you could be used to fetch wheather information, the TV guide, stock prices, or pretty much anything else.

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So you’re looking for an easy way to burn those Xbox 360 isos to a DVD in Linux? A couple of days ago I would’ve said:

Sorry pal, but if you’re looking for a graphical way to do it, I believe you’re shit out of luck. Now stop bugging me, I’m playing TeeWorlds!

Thanks to BoxBlaze, that has changed!

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