Kevin A. Freitas

Firefox Extensions

PictureThis 0.5.1

A word is worth a thousand images as you will see when you highlight a word or words on a page then use PictureThis to see what Google Images sees. It's a whole new way of adding instant context to the web.

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Instructions for Use

1. select / highlight a word or words on any webpage
2. right click on your selection
3. choose "Picture This" from the menu
4. click on an image to view the full size original
5. click the "X" on an image to remove it from the page
6. click the "X" in the "PictureThis" bar in the upper right to close all image matches on a page

Known Issues (in order of importance)

• need to hammer out styles and positioning on some websites
• js error on close of all matches (thanks Mark!)

Future Features

• ability to match on large, medium or small images
• "next" and "prev" buttons to quickly browse matches of a word or words
• multi-image grid (2x2, 3x3, etc)
• adjustable image source (e.g. Flickr, Yahoo, MSN)
• draggable image matches
• maintain highlight or show search keywords with image match

Updated 12/19/2006

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