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Piclens browser plugin gets even more awesome
We're big fans of Piclens, a web browser plugin that lets you create photo slideshows out of search results from sites like Flickr, Google Images, Photobucket, Facebook, and about a dozen other services. PicLens has come a long way since we first covered it back in 2006. At the time, Piclens was only available for Safari.
A few months ago, Piclens released browser plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer. And this week the service released a new version of its browser plugin that supercharges the full-screen slideshows. You can still browse through images using a Flickr-like slideshow with thumbnails at the bottom of your screen and a larger image in the main window.
But the default image browser is now more like a brick wall, where each brick is an image thumbnail. And the wall goes on forever. You can drag a slider at the bottom of the window and zip past images in a way that sort of defies description, which is why we've embedded a video above. You can also click on individual files for a larger view, search for more images from within the slideshow player, or click a link to see the image at its source.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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dancinbojagles said 6:36PM on 2-14-2008
Holy crap. Just, wow. I'd tried Piclens before, didn't much care for it, but JEEZ what a difference a little time can make! It would be even better, though, if it could display any image link, so you could browse like a BBS image board and just see the pictures, not the inane blather of its undoubtedly mouth-breathing inhabitants.
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dancinbojagles said 6:42PM on 2-14-2008
Actually, what would be even cooler is if they were integrated into the ever-growing Google monstrosity, and Picasa could have this same sort of interface, and this whole Media RSS thing would become widely used through their might.
Chris said 6:04PM on 2-15-2008
Hi Brad:
Thanks so much for your thumbs up on PicLens 1.6. We really appreciate it! Major new features are coming, so keep us on your radar. I think you'll be very impressed.
For interested readers, here's a link to another video demo by a PicLens fan!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uRG40tqC8dM
Thanks, again.
Chris & The Cooliris Team
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