Piclens – you need to check this out
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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.
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?
Put simply, you can get a PicLens plugin / browser add on for a number of the most popular browsers as shown here:
(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!).
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!
Ready to do some downloading? Firefox 3 is coming soon.
Firefox is currently my browser of choice and they have their brand new version, Firefox 3 coming out soon. They are trying to set a World Record on that day by getting the highest number of people to download it in a 24 hour period.
They have set up a great site here, where you can pledge to download and get some cool badges to display on your site (mine is proudly displayed in the side bar).
So, go and pledge and get ready to download! For those of you still using Internet Explorer (I know some of you are from the blog stats), please try Firefox, or Safari. They are so much better!
