PicLens facilitates viewing and searching online photos and videos
Posted by Carolyn Lo on April 28, 2008 at 12:39 PM
PicLens is a plug-in that transforms browsers such as Firefox into "a 3D environment where you can search, drag, and zoom around thousands of images and videos across the web," according to Alec Jeong from Cooliris, the company that developed PicLens. Journalist can use this plug-in to search and view thousands of online photos and videos instantly instead of browsing and clicking through web pages and search engines.
The photos can be viewed through thumbnails or on a full screen and can the page the image is on can be automatically accessed. In the future, PicLens plans to allow users to save images directly from the plug-in and to view the images on the users' local hard drives.
PicLens is a free plug-in and available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. The "3D Wall" interface is available now for Firefox and IE and will soon be available for Safari.
Source: Journalism.co.uk
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