View Images and Videos on a 3D Wall with Cooliris
“Think beyond the Browser” this is the mantra behind Cooliris. This tiny piece of software transforms your browser into an interactive, full-screen “cinematic” experience web media.
What is Cooliris?
Cooliris, formerly PicLens, turns your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search, discover, view and share online photos, videos and more. It’s innovative “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly zoom your way around thousands of items on a single ever expansive 3D wall.
Why do you need Cooliris?
This question can be better answered only with an example. Now, let’s say you want to search for Images of Beautiful scenery in Google Images. You will do a Google Image Search with the key words ‘Beautiful Scenery’ and Google displays hundreds or thousands of web pages. One cannot say only the top rated ones are shown in the first few pages and the lesser rated ones in the rest of the pages. At least, I will not agree in the case of Image Search.
If I have to do the same thing with Cooliris. I follow these steps.
- Install Cooliris plugin available for any of the browsers Mozilla, IE, Safari and Flock. Check this page for more details on browser compatibility. Mozilla Firefox Cooliris add-on link.
- Launch Cooliris in Firefox (as I installed it on Firefox).
- The search box is available at the top right corner of the Cooliris application. I select Google from the list and then search for the same key words “Beautiful Scenery”.
- Here is the main difference. All the images are shown in single never ending 3D Wall as against page by page in the browser.
- Now, I can select any image that I need and can get the Permalink of the image just by a single click.
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The Stunning Features
3D Wall
Displays content (Images, Videos) on a single wall rather than the traditional way of clicking the “next” button page by page.
Visual News
Surf the latest news, sports, entertainment and technology news using it’s Discover feature.
Search
The search function available on the 3D Wall lets you search Images from Google Image Search, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu and other sites in the fastest way possible.
3D Window Shopping
This feature allows you to Window shop some of the world’s largest retailers. One can compare products visually on the 3D Wall and see more details on the product or directly jump to the Product Page of the retailer.
Favorites
The best items of your choice in Cooliris can be added to your own custom feed.
Works with Thousands of sites
Built around the industry standard Media RSS format, it supports hundreds of sites on the web. This include Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live, Ask, AOL Images and sites like Facebook, Flickr, Fotki, Hi5, Friendster, MySpace, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, Kodak Gallery and almost all of the available online photo albums available in the market.
Other Options
You can enable your own Sites/Blogs using the Media RSS. What is this Media RSS? It is an open standard for syndicating multimedia content. For more information , visit Cooliris Developer.
Cool Previews – This is another simple Firefox add on, which enables you to view the content of a particular web link without clicking it. For instance, I pointed my mouse at the link enrectangled in RED. I could see the content without actually clicking it. Firefox CoolPreviews add-on link.
No matter how much I talk about this Wonderful Media Rich application, there is still lot more to it. I would suggest, you install this 3 MB add-on to your Firefox browser and experience the difference yourself. Do let me know how you fell once you install it.
Technorati Tags: Cooliris, CoolPreviews, Images, Organize Photos, 3D Photos
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Comments
Nice review dude. I was told by one of my reader on my blog about this coolris plugin. Now i remember, the reader left the comment on this post http://www.niharsworld.com/2009/01/08/how-to-launch-multiple-apps-with-a-single-click-lacuna-launcher/
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Wow, thanks for this. I have just installed and I am very impressed. This makes finding graphics a lot easier, a lot quicker and a lot more enjoyable. I am just not sure what effect this will have on FFs memory usage. A nice toy though. Thanks for the info.
@Nihar, Do install it. I’m sure you will like it!
@Lyndi, I’m very much impressed too! The best part is the speed with which it searches so many images. Memory may not be a big issue now-a-days.
I can’t believe how many great pictures you can find using Cooliris. Thanks for the great recommendation.
@Nihar, Any plans to enable Media RSS on your site?
@Jerry, hope you are enjoying viewing images on the wall, #D wall 
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Wow, this was totally awesome. I haven’t seen one before. I am really impress. I am currently installing it right now. thanks!
Its great to know that end number of images can be viewed through cooliris. Its quicker than any other downloading site and more enjoyable.
I have installed these.This is really looking awesome.
Really useful stuff .Never had an idea about this.Keep it up
Thanks!
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