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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!

Jason Snell at Macworld just tipped me off to PicLens. PicLens is a Safari-only plugin from Cooliris that enables gorgeous full-screen...
 

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Thomas Gregory

Haha. The desktop on the left in the picture is mine :)

October 19 2006 at 7:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jojo

front row doesnt work when safari is active using this plugin

October 19 2006 at 5:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BOB

Stupid question, but how do u install it?

October 19 2006 at 1:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
THEY

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?

October 19 2006 at 12:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Keith

Is Safari 2.0 Beta available for download somewhere or something?

October 19 2006 at 12:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
merrickrider22

i'm impressed...

reason number 238493 y facebook is better than myspace

October 19 2006 at 11:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Laurie

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.

October 19 2006 at 10:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jordan

Not Safari-only.
Mozilla compatible too:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2207/

October 19 2006 at 10:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Biffo

Where's resources?

October 19 2006 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dom

Doesn't work properly for me. 9 times out of 10, it just prevents Flickr images loading at all.

October 19 2006 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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