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BookmarkPreviews: Cover Flow for Firefox bookmarks

by Brad Linder Mar 10th 2008

BookmarkPreviews
BookmarkPreviews is an awesome, but kind of useless plugin for Firefox that lets you scroll through thumbnails of bookmarked web pages using an Apple Cover Flow-style browser. When you install the add-on, BookmarkPreviews will create a snapshot every time you visit a page you've already bookmarked. Then when you open your bookmark manager you can scroll through them in graphical form.

The only problem is that we can't imagine a circumstance where it would be faster to scroll through your bookmarks this way than to just click on the one you're looking for. Plus most folks we know use online bookmarking services like del.icio.us to store their bookmarks anyway.

[via CyberNet

Tags: add-ons, bookmarkpreviews, bookmarks, cover-flow, firefox, plugins

Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

View Flickr slideshows Cover Flow style

by Brad Linder Feb 7th 2008

Guckn
One of the things that makes Flickr so mesmorizing is the ability to watch image sets using Flickr's slick slideshow feature. But if you're looking for an alternative slideshow viewer, you might want to check out Flickr Cover Flow or Flickr Guckn.

Both sites essentially do the same thing. They let you view Flickr sets using a Apple Cover Flow-style slideshow player. Guckn is probably the easier site to use. Basically you can take any Flickr photoset and replace "flickr" in the URL with "guckn." If you visit Guckn.com you can also see a slideshow with 100 recently uploaded images. That it's. No bells and whistles.

Flickr Cover Flow gives you a few more options. You can find images by photoset ID, user name, or even date. You can also choose whether or not the slideshow should automatically scroll and determine how long to pause on each image.

Neither site offers an embeddable player, which is a little disappointing. It would be nice to have a custom Flickr image viewer that you could embed on your own site. But since these services just present an alternate way to view Flickr slideshows, the novelty wears off pretty quickly and it just seems easier to look at pretty pictures on Flickr's site.

[via BrentEvans Geek Tonic]

Tags: cover-flow, flickr, guckn, images, slideshows

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