Faster Nudity

We all know the suffering of viewing sites with various images on a page, all with the same file name, except a number appended to the end that is incremented for each image. We tend to view these pages by going through each image in order, occasionally skipping one if the thumbnail is unappealling. There are two common methods for doing this as efficiently as one believes possible.

The first is the laziest. You view the image, then hit the browser's Back button to return to the image index. Then you click the next image's thumbnail. This is cumbersome, especially with limited limbs. It also removes the suspense of what the next image will contain. Viewing the thumbnail ruins the surprise of the full image to come.

The other method is to manually edit the URL in the location bar, incrementing the number in the image file name by one. This can also be a hassle when one or more hands are unavailable. You typically have to click the location bar twice, once to highlight the URL, and one more time to select the specific position in the URL. Then you must type in the next number using the backspace key and then all the way back to the number pad. This is also not ideal.

There is one true solution. It is the following links:

INCREMENT

DECREMENT

One finds the last number in the URL, and increases it by one. The other decreases it. And it will turn 09 into 10 and vice versa. Now you can click one button and move directly to the next image. It is also even more useful if you use Mozilla Firefox, where you can put the links in the Personal Toolbar Folder, and they will be accessible directly from the main Firefox interface. You don't have open any Favorites menu like you would in IE. And I'll be damned if Opera doesn't have this feature built in. I don't know the extent of the feature, but clicking the button on the right side of your mouse will increment to the next image automatically. Score one for Opera, my new browser of choice, but still I've left a bone for you curmudgeons.

There's one flaw, and that's if the images are not numerically incremented by one. But this is not usually the case. And so I highly recommend the above links, as you will find them very useful as you view various images with varying content. I cannot take credit for the Javascript here, but I can't recall where to give it to. But you can karmically give them your appreciation somehow. Be well and prosper.