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PicLens Plugin for Safari, beta
Jason Snell at Macworld just tipped me off to PicLens. PicLens is a Safari-only plugin from Cooliris that enables gorgeous full-screen slideshows on the fly, out of whatever set of images you are currently viewing in Flickr, Photobucket, Facebook, as well Google, Yahoo and Ask.com Image search engines. Once the plugin is installed, you'll notice a discreet slideshow icon in the lower left corner when you mouse over a slideshow-appropriate thumbnail on one of the abovementioned sites. Click that icon and watch your monitor fill with the slideshow. Then you can navigate by using the onscreen slideshow controls ala iPhoto or use your keyboard - or even your Apple Remote! To exit out of the slideshow and return to your browser window, just hit your escape key. If you're like me, you might not be impressed with this concept at all until you've tried it for yourself - but trust me, it's pretty cool.
Even more impressive is that for now at least - it's only compatible with Safari, which is a trend I wouldn't mind continuing! You'll need 10.4 or later as well since it needs Safari 2.0.
You can download Beta 1 for free and if for some reason you don't like it or have a problem with it, you'll find the "Remove PicLens" menu under the View menu in Safari. Let us know what you think!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yuri Walkiw said 9:38AM on 10-19-2006
For a second I thought you meant it was a plug in for a beta version of Safari. Now that would be cool. This plug in is pretty cool.
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Dinesh said 9:37AM on 10-19-2006
Off topic, but didnt know where to leave tips - iPod nano software updated to 1.3
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Yuri Walkiw said 9:39AM on 10-19-2006
There's a send us tips thingie on the right side under resources.
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ziggyonice said 9:41AM on 10-19-2006
Uh, this is pretty much amazing.
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rish said 2:54PM on 10-19-2006
there is no icon in the lower left, what is he talking about
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Dom said 10:03AM on 10-19-2006
Doesn't work properly for me. 9 times out of 10, it just prevents Flickr images loading at all.
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okron said 10:03AM on 10-19-2006
Where's resources?
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Jordan said 2:23PM on 10-19-2006
Not Safari-only.
Mozilla compatible too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2207/
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Laurie said 10:38AM on 10-19-2006
It is BETA, folks, so don't expect perfection yet - but I can attest that I played with it for about 20 minutes this morning on Google Image Search and Flickr and it worked very well for me. Remember, the icon shows up when you mouseover thumbnails, not full sized images.
Jordan - that's a different plugin with a similar function, by the same company. Not exactly the same, however.
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superman said 12:51PM on 10-19-2006
i'm impressed...
reason number 238493 y facebook is better than myspace
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Keith said 12:51PM on 10-19-2006
Is Safari 2.0 Beta available for download somewhere or something?
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THEY said 12:35PM on 10-19-2006
So, what is that black button up by the address bar in Safari?
It looks like an analogue gauge with a + above it.
Sort of Dashboard Icon looking.
Maybe some sort of personal ranking system for sites?
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BOB said 2:39PM on 10-19-2006
Stupid question, but how do u install it?
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jeric said 5:53PM on 10-19-2006
front row doesnt work when safari is active using this plugin
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William Wilkinson said 7:42PM on 10-19-2006
Haha. The desktop on the left in the picture is mine :)
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