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Thursday, October 19, 2006

PicLens

I've been trying the beta version of PicLens, a groovy little plug-in for Mac Safari browsers. It basically makes photo sites like Flickr a much more immersive experience, allowing you to browse pages of photos in a full-screen slideshow format.

After installing the software, mousing over an image on a site that's supported by PicLens presents you with a small extra icon. Click it and after a few seconds the picture grows smoothly to fill the screen with the high-definition version. PicLens then starts pre-caching the other images that were on that page, and you can navigate through them with an interface similar to an iPhoto slideshow. It makes surfing Flickr a completely different experience as each picture is show at it's best.

Currently it's OSX Safari only, although a PC version is promised. I'm hoping for a version for my current browser of choice, Firefox.
Blogger Jessica  Theres a greasmonkey script that does something sort of similar for flickr, google image search etc 
Blogger Jessica  http://shiftingpixel.com/lightbox/
It preloads and everything! 
Blogger Becky  Cool, thanks Jess. And through that link I found out about Creammonkey - that appears to be a Safari version of Greasemonkey, maybe I'll try using Safari for a bit. :-) 
Anonymous Anonymous  "Creammonkey" Sounds wrong to me. ;) 
Blogger Jessica  only prob is that most of your gm scripts won't work because safari is a pile of monkey poo ;) and hardly anyone bothers to make them cross browser 

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