Tuesday, June 3, 2008

PicLens - THE Browser Extension for Surfing Images

Piclens - flowers of FlickrImage by Sharon Greenberg via FlickrHave you ever come across an image site - say, Google Images - and found that going through each page to find what you want a chore? Well PicLens will save the day!

PicLens by Cooliris offers users a graphical approach to surfing images, in glorious 3-D. It's smooth, shows images in full screen, and is pretty as all get out. See all the images in one interface, navigate with arrow keys, view slideshows, see pics in full screen, even search your favorite image sites (Google Images, Flickr, SmugMug, DeviantArt, etc.). It also works with MySpace and Facebook. Did I mention that it even has YouTube integration? I didn't? Well, it does! All with one click.

If you happen to have a slow machine, you may have some difficulties with it's operation. However, if you are somewhere in the neighborhood of 256mb RAM with a 64mb video card, you should be fine.

Not only does PicLens work with Firefox (as of this post, if you are using FF3, got to the official site, not the Mozilla Add-Ons site), it also plays well with Internet Explorer and Safari.

0 comments: