i've been using PicLens for a week or so now and really like it. piclens is a browser add-on. it works with many of the popular browsers. it's a two part piece, really. one part is installed in your browser and allows you to view, in a special manner, web sites that have also embedded the code.
so, what's this special manner? it's a wall, a wall of pictures. they call it a 3d wall. it's a 3d wall of thumbnails. click on any of the thumbs and it brings forth (zooms in) any of the thumbs. it's a pretty slick way of seeing a LOT of images in a hurry.
oh, and here's the address: http://www.piclens.com/ .
this is a freebie so far, at least to us, the end user.
if you look around on their web site, you'll see that google, yahoo, photobucket, flikr and others are already using this. this makes something like an image search on google extremely easy and fast.
oh, and it also works on videos! go to youtube with this thing added onto your browser and you can have a wall of videos showing. click on any of them and it will run the video. pretty slick.
it does have some caveats. i find that sometimes the sound will not work (if the video had sound with it). you'll get a clicking noise but no sound. just re-load and it will usually work. some videos dont seem to load all the time from youtube, but then, some videos dont load anyways just using your regular browser. sometimes, a ton of thumbnails on a given web page will not show the little blur arrow that signifies that piclens is being used on that page. i think it's just taking a long time to load everything, but not sure.
but, regardless of the caveats, i find this a VERY handy way to do an image search on google or yahoo and some of the others.
and, did i mention it's free?
so, what's this special manner? it's a wall, a wall of pictures. they call it a 3d wall. it's a 3d wall of thumbnails. click on any of the thumbs and it brings forth (zooms in) any of the thumbs. it's a pretty slick way of seeing a LOT of images in a hurry.
oh, and here's the address: http://www.piclens.com/ .
this is a freebie so far, at least to us, the end user.
if you look around on their web site, you'll see that google, yahoo, photobucket, flikr and others are already using this. this makes something like an image search on google extremely easy and fast.
oh, and it also works on videos! go to youtube with this thing added onto your browser and you can have a wall of videos showing. click on any of them and it will run the video. pretty slick.
it does have some caveats. i find that sometimes the sound will not work (if the video had sound with it). you'll get a clicking noise but no sound. just re-load and it will usually work. some videos dont seem to load all the time from youtube, but then, some videos dont load anyways just using your regular browser. sometimes, a ton of thumbnails on a given web page will not show the little blur arrow that signifies that piclens is being used on that page. i think it's just taking a long time to load everything, but not sure.
but, regardless of the caveats, i find this a VERY handy way to do an image search on google or yahoo and some of the others.
and, did i mention it's free?
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