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When it comes to enjoying the great photos on websites like Flickr, Google (Yahoo) Images, Facebook, etc, you might have noticed how distracting various other elements on the page are: comments, ads, flashy colors, smilies… Some sites do support slideshow mode. However it takes you away from where you are and you don’t get to choose which images to view. Here is a great software to get rid of all the cluttering stuff and leave you just the photos you want to see, in full screen! It has some other neat features too. It is definitely worth checking out. PicLens (1.5BETA) by Cooliris, Inc. Please note that it only support Firefox 2+ on Windows and Safari on Mac.
Once you install it, you won’t notice much going on when visiting supported photo sharing site before you put the mouse cursor over an image. You will notice a button appear in the lower left corner of the thumbnail image. Click on it. In a few moments (depending on your connection speed), you will see a full screen version of that image showing up. At the bottom of the screen, you will see a row of thumbnail images (of all the images on that page), together with some easy to use navigation buttons.
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July 11th, 2007 at 11:28 am #Andrew Ferguson
This sounds really cool!
Does it give you the option of viewing the large image on black or white?
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July 13th, 2007 at 4:26 pm #Paul Angles
Hi,
If you’re a fan of PicLens, you might want to try Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox at http://www.snap.com. It lets you view Flickr and PhotoBucket albums in line plus lots of other stuff like videos, RSS feeds, Wikipedia summaries, and more.
Paul
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July 15th, 2007 at 9:57 pm #picmax
Andrew, it seems that only black background is available.
Paul, snap sounds like a very cool software. I will try that once I figure out the problem with the site. I cannot seem to be able to download it. Many images on that site do not load at all.
Thanks guys, for the first two comments on my blog.
Max
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