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View the future

Cooliris blows up your Web-surfing experience into a larger-than-life graphical experience. It takes the images it finds on nearly any Web site, expands them to super-extra-large size, and then lets you surf through them in a classy scaling interface that we think we last saw in the Iron Man movie. Or maybe it was The Dark Knight.

Whatever the inspiration, there's no doubt that the cross-platform and cross-browser Cooliris puts the "graphic" back in "graphic user interface". Installing it places a button on the Toolbar. When you're on a Cooliris-enabled Web site, click the Cooliris button to activate more

Photo swiper

The gorgeous-looking Cooliris lets you quickly search for images on Google, Flickr, Yahoo, SmugMug, and DeviantArt by swiping through the results with your finger. Taking a tip from the built-in accelerometer, you can also usefully tip your phone to navigate through the photos as they continue to load. You'll be able to zoom into photos and view links without bumping back to Safari, an excellent gesture on Cooliris' part.

If you tire of searching, you can also browse images in news, sports, tech, and business that are selected depending on where you are in the world. Support for videos more

See the future

If you have too many links to look through, the CoolPreviews browser extension for Firefox, IE, and Safari might be what you're looking for. It opens a preview window to any link you mouse over when you point your cursor to an individual search result. A small, translucent blue box appears. Mouse over that and CoolPreviews pops up a floating window with that link's contents.

The extension comes with many useful options. It allows the user to change the size of the pop-up window, e-mail the previewed link to a friend, and "stack" the link, which is CoolPreviews-speak more

Line it up

This charming 2D platformer employs a simple hero and enemies as basic(and as frustrating) as bouncing white balls to incredible effect--the result is a top-rated action game.

You control a snazzy little girl in a beret and red necktie around the screen by right-clicking an area or using the W, A, S, and D keys. Left clicking draws a chalk line, which is your only weapon, aside from the other elements in the game.

You can only draw one line (or scribble) at a time, and its length is limited by a power meter at the top of the more

Line it up

This charming 2D platformer employs a simple hero and enemies as basic(and as frustrating) as bouncing white balls to incredible effect--the result is a top-rated action game.

You can only draw one line (or scribble) at a time, and its length is limited by a power meter at the top of the more

Quick out the gate

If you want to quickly find and load any chunk of data on your Palm OS, Initiate Pro is your app. Type or scroll through the launcher's categorized views to narrow your field, or switch to Power view to see it all. Dragging and dropping files among categories and to the SD card is a bonus, as is easily shipping them out through e-mail, Bluetooth, or beaming. The slight learning curve leaves us feeling that some actions should be easier than they are, like assigning voice commands, and the $24.95 price tag for the pro version seems steeper more

Mix it up

With effects, samples, and transitions that rival vinyl turntablisms, Virtual DJ lets anyone produce polished MP3 mixes.

At the top of the graphically-intense interface, song-structure visualizations show the beats as the music plays. Two simulated turntables play the currently- loaded tracks. Windows below the turntables show samples, effects, music search, recording, program options, and an Explorer-style interface for loading music. You'll need to download an MP3 encoder if you don't want to record files in WAV format.

Virtual DJ not only can create audio collages, but it now also can make montages of video clips. The stylish interface more