PicLens 1.7 adds Amazon, news, movie trailers

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PicLens 1.7 adds Amazon, news, movie trailers

by Brad Linder Jun 16th 2008

The folks behind the PicLens browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer are on a roll. Earlier this year the company rolled out an improved version that lets you view image slideshows from Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, Photobucket, SmugBug, Photobucket, and DeviantArt as a never-ending wall of pictures. Last month, PicLens added support for YouTube videos. And now PicLens 1.7 adds a whole new "Discover" section that lets you browse images and movies in categories such as:

US News
International News
Sports
Entertainment
Movies/TV
Fashion/Lifestyle
Science/Technology
Business

The content comes from several sources including MSNBC, ESPN, and movie trailer sites. And the content is constantly changing. You can access the Discover tab just by hitting the PicLens icon in your browser and selecting the Discover button on the left hand side of the screen.

PicLens has also added the ability to search Amazon.com from the main search box. And probably one of the most useful new features is a "Return to PicLens" button that pops up in your browser window any time you follow an image from PicLens back to its original source. This lets you go back to your PicLens session without starting over from scratch.

Tags: browser-plugin, firefox, internet-explorer, piclens, piclens-1.7

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kingkool68 said 10:45AM on 6-16-2008

I absolutely love this plugin!

Joao Almeida said 1:24PM on 6-16-2008

Still no Linux version... :(

Luna said 1:49PM on 6-19-2008

Hi Joao,

Our ideal plan is to eventually make our Piclens Firefox work cross-platform. Linux support is something we want to add, but its timing is not yet clear due to our current resource constraints. Thank you for understanding and hanging in there!

Best,
Luna and The Cooliris Team

Dagwood said 3:15PM on 6-16-2008

A linux version is needed. I would use it a lot more if they made it for linux. I tried the new version out today on xp, and the audio is not synchronized. Otherwise, it is an awesome idea.

Luna said 6:53PM on 6-18-2008

Hi Brad,

Thank you for posting about PicLens 1.7, we really appreciate it!

For interested readers, please check out our demo at http://piclens.com/demo and learn more at http://blog.cooliris.com. Enjoy the three newest additions to PicLens!

Thanks again,
Luna and The Cooliris Team

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