I was recently reading Thomas Hawke’s blog called “The Digital Connection.” If you are interested in photography and all things related to digital photo and the Web, Hawkes’s blog is a must read. He also writes about the digital home and I find every aspect of his blog insightful and helpful for the fun things in life (ok and some of the work things, like Friend Feed, too)
Thomas recently noted he had been playing with PicLens. He said “if you haven’t installed PicLens yet for browsing photos on the Web you are missing one of the most beautiful ways to view photography on the Internet yet” linking to this Firefox add-on. It even supports YouTube, which I have not yet tried. Check it out.
Here is a snipping tool pic of some of my photos in the tool…but trust me this doesn’t do PicLens justice. Read Thomas and visit the PicLens site.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Hi Richard,
Thank you for posting about PicLens! We truly appreciate it.
We’ve just launched PicLens 1.7 with three exciting new additions:
* Discover — MSNBC, ESPN, movie trailers…Surf the latest media feeds on the 3D Wall.
* Shop Amazon — Browse products from Amazon in a new virtual window shopping environment.
* Return to PicLens — Easily toggle in and out of PicLens to your browser and desktop!
For interested readers, please check out our visual demo at http://piclens.com/demo and learn more at http://blog.cooliris.com.
Hope everyone enjoys the three latest additions to PicLens!
Best,
Luna and The Cooliris Team
June 21st, 2008 at 4:00 am
WOW! That’s an awesome plug in, thanks Richard.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Hi Jervis961, appreciate the feedback. I was pretty blown away by it for sure. All thanks is owed to Thomas Hawke and his blog for this gem. Also, Thanks for dropping by Luna and giving us even more information. Those are great additions
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 am
If I could use it on my own pictures, that would be awesome.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hi jervis961
If your photos are on Flickr, here is one to see just your photos: tag with with your name and subject. For example “jervis961photo” “tree”….now go to pic lens and put in the term jervis961 photo tree….and all your tree pictures should show. Not sure how this might work but another way might be to name a set JervisJunePhotos, then tag them all with the set name JervisJunePhotos. Now enter that in pic lens and see what happens.
Maybe that helps?
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Thanks Richard but I was hoping to use it with the ones on my network. My pictures are about 5MB each and would take forever to upload.