Piclens – you need to check this out

June 26, 2008 · Filed Under Internet, Tech 

It’s not often that I say ‘wow’ out loud, but I did yesterday when my friend Anand told me about Piclens and went to check it out.

piclens logo

I had heard about it last year and had taken a look, forgotten about it and that was that. The good news is that they have been working hard on making it better. Much better. How about getting a full screen 3D display of photos like this below?

piclens

Put simply, you can get a PicLens plugin / browser add on for a number of the most popular browsers as shown here:

piclens browsers

(I’ve installed the FireFox one which was a doddle). Once you have done that and restarted your browser, you then see a PicLens logo appear top right in the browser, and if it is illuminated blue, it is a site that supports PicLens. Here you go:

When you see this, you can click on the logo and PicLens launches giving an amazing 3D scrolling media experience! There are many sites that now support it, so have a look! (flickr pictures look incredible when you activate PicLens – easily the best way to see your photostream!).

piclens supported sites

There’s one more great feature ……..

Wordpress Plugin! – You should see a small PicLens prompt under this post, so if you click on this, you should launch PicLens Lite and see the photos within the post in a slick slideshow. Your readers will need to have Adobe Flash Player 9 or the PicLens browser add on.

So, what are you waiting for, click below and check it out!


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3 Responses to “Piclens – you need to check this out”

  1. Luna on June 26th, 2008 9:07 pm

    Hi Jon,

    Thank you for your comprehensive post about PicLens! We truly appreciate it. We are delighted to hear that you are enjoying PicLens 1.7 with the three new additions: Discover, Shop Amazon, and “Return to PicLens”. We hope your readers enjoy it as much as you do!

    Thanks again,
    Luna and The Cooliris Team

  2. admin on June 26th, 2008 9:12 pm

    Hey Luna!

    Many thanks for posting – I love PicLens, one of the best things I’ve seen online for a good few months!

    Best,

    Jon :-)

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