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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: October 05, 2008
- Total Downloads: 35,358
- Downloads last week: 460
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A newer version of Cooliris for Internet Explorer is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 26 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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 the Cooliris interface. Your screen will go black, and all the images on the site will zoom past you as if on a roller-coaster. They stop soon after, and from there you can surf the site using the subtly-placed search bar at the top of your monitor. Click on an image to enlarge it. If it's a still image, it simply enlarges. If it's a video, it enlarges and starts playing.
Currently, the plug-in only supports a handful of the most popular graphics-intensive site, such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, and a few others. A WordPress plug-in allows those who use that blogging system to create Cooliris functionality, and there's a Webmaster's guide on the Cooliris site for users who host their own sites. We also noticed occasional stability problems on Internet Explorer, but they were intermittent at best. Installing the add-on is worth it just for the sweeping, futuristic way that images stream by when you browse, even though there might not be much practical application at this point.
Publisher's description
From Cooliris :Full-Screen, 3D--Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for searching, viewing, and sharing online photos and videos. Our expansive "3D Wall" lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images, videos, news feeds, movie trailers, online retailers, and more, in a matter of seconds. To share stuff with friends, just drag and drop. Cooliris works on 1000s of Web sites including Google Image Search, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, KodakGallery, Picasa Web Album, Photobucket.
To use Cooliris on the these sites, (1) visit the gallery on that site, and then (2) click the Cooliris icon that appears above images and videos as you mouseover them.
Version 1.8.3 improves the Shopping and Discover user experience, improved Audio and Video playback, support for viewing Flash content.
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Version 1.8.3 improves the Shopping and Discover user experience, improved Audio and Video playback, support for viewing Flash content.
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Version: Cooliris for Internet Explorer 1.8.3
"one of the few addins i was willing to install"
Pros: i am a graphic artist and i love this addin, helps me browse images faster, conveniently, efficiently.. by far one of the best ive found :D
Cons: would require a good video card and monitor else scrolling images would blur.. takes some time to starup (but compare it to how much you need to click next page from galleries) it sometimes is a little buggy when using alt+tab..
Summary: this is a great tool for people who constanly browse images and videos from their favorite search engines and by far the first to add a 3d concept to browsing. i rated this perfect stars as its the most used addin on my browser.
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Version: Cooliris for Internet Explorer 1.8.3
Pros: Makes finding pictures and videos easy; looks amazing.
Cons: Could have more features.
Summary: Most of the crashy bugs seem to be fixed, but I also have a really good video card. I love this product and really recommend it.
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