Saving Private Flickr Photos - Spaceball.gif

If you've ever visited Flickr.com, you've probably noticed that the website may sometimes block you from downloading certain photos that users have set as private.

Right clicking to start the download will only get you a weird image file called spaceball.gif which, obviously isn't the file that you were looking for.




HOW TO GET AROUND IT:

Using Firefox

1. Right click anywhere on the page where you image is located and select "View Page Info"
2. Click on the "Media" tab
3. Scroll through the various files, clicking on each one to open a preview in your window.
4. Once you land on the picture you were looking for, simply click the "Save As" button and voila!

Using Other Browsers

1. Right click on the page and select "View Source"
2. Hit Control + F on your keyboard and type in "farm"
   
3. Cycle through the results (it should be the third result) until you end up on a URL starting with farm1.static, like the following "http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/87446951_d438474121.jpg"
4. Copy that URL into a browser window and the picture should come up and be available for easy downloading