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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: June 29, 2007
- Total Downloads: 27,891
- Downloads last week: 296
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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 :This Firefox extention adds a slew of features for viewing images on popular sites like Google and Yahoo Images, Flickr, Facebook, Friendster, and Picasa. Features include: Multi-page search on Google Images and Yahoo Images; Jump from PicLens to the corresponding Web page; View photos in full screen with a single click; Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
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User reviews of PicLens 1.5.3
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Version: PicLens 1.5.3
"Great Idea, Great Program, Needs Work"
Pros: Really liked it when it worked. It just needs some further tweaking, which I hear they are working on.
Cons: The slideshow controls at the bottom would not show up, and it crashed Firefox three times before I uninstalled. Stay tuned for a new version though.
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Version: PicLens 1.5.3
Pros: Tried it on Safari and Firefox, works great.
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Version: PicLens 1.5.3
"only downloaded it because I'm a big fan of cooliris review"
Cons: has no info. on how to use, when to use, and if it's for certain web-pages only, but I'll stick with it until I know how to use it, love Cooliris, let's get this rolling guys! So 1str. for now.
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