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- Price: Free
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- Date added: October 23, 2006
- Total Downloads: 12,880
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 12 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 :PicLens is the plug-in that provides an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. PicLens can be used on Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket, and image search results from Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com. To use the software, move your mouse over an image and click the PicLens button that fades in. With one click, the image expands into full screen mode, where you can browse through the photos on the page in high resolution. You can jump between photos or start an automatic slideshow by using the buttons at the lower-left. You can also press the space bar to play and pause the slideshow, and the arrow keys to move between photos. Pressing any other key will take you back to your browser.
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