PicLens Again

Edit : PicLens is the former name, the product is now called directly Cooliris :P. Sorry, my bad.

    Luna from Cooliris was nice enough to drop me a line tonight and mention a few words about the new updated version of PicLens. For those of you who are new, PicLens is a nice little add-on for Firefox that transforms any gallery-type site into a really enjoyable experience. So this is what she said. 

    Today, we are especially excited to announce two major developments. First, we are pleased to introduce a greatly enhanced shopping feature. You can now shop online through the sleek and time-saving Cooliris interface on Amazon, Macy's, eLuxury, Beauty.com, Nordstrom, Apple iTunes, Wal-Mart, KB Toys and more! 

    We are also thrilled to announce a new partnership with Kodak Gallery, the largest photo sharing community on the web. They are now officially enabled with Cooliris so you can enjoy your photos on Kodak Gallery in Cooliris style. Sharing and browsing photos on Kodak Gallery just became easier and more visually appealing for everyone!

    So everything sounds just great! ( with the small exception that Opera  still doesn;t support this). By the way this is their official site and you can download PicLens from here.

   Thanks a lot Luna, and good night to all  from Geeky.
 

PicLens

Now I might be just getting excited over something most of know may have known about for a really long time, but still I'm glad I found it now. I'm talking about PicLens, which is a multi browser add-on that completely transforms your interface, into something that closely resembles ( in my opinion) Vista's Media Center.

The add-on is very small, a few megabytes , and it can be installed on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Now if you're wondering which of these to choose have a look at my Browsers article and that should give you a clue.

Many popular sites have been optimized for the use of PicLens including YouTube, Google photo search, Yahoo photo search, Photobucket, MySpace, Flickr, Facebook and many more. You can view these sites either as a 3d image base, or as a slideshow. And the add-on already incorporates different popular subjects and sites such as News, Sports, Technology, and Movies that it will automatically search for an update on your screen.

Now the part that is really cool, is that you can optimize your own website for PicLens by using their tools, or adding a little html coding. And if you have a blog on Wordpress that you'd like to optimize for this , you simply download the Wordpress add-on. And the best part, is that even people who don't have PicLens installed or who use a browser that doesn't support it ( ie ME) can still view a nice interface using the PicLens Lite that runs directly off the net. I've added a few pictures so you get the ideea.

Cheers, Geeky.

This is the full PicLens on Mozilla Firefox while looking on an Wordpress blog.

And this is the same blog in Opera while running PicLens Lite.