PicLens, Where Have You Been All My Life?

October 20, 2006 · 12 comments

Josh from Cooliris just emailed me to let me know that PicLens Beta 1 has been released. PicLens completely changes the way view online images. After quickly installing this currently Safari-only plugin, I took it for a spin by visiting my flickr photostream.

PicLens

Whenever you hover over an image on a site like Flickr, Photobucket or Facebook, a little icon appears in the bottom left corner of that image, similar to Flock’s image integration. Click that icon and the magic begins. PicLens takes over and introduces a stellar full-screen slideshow interface that words can’t describe. I would usually spam you with tasty screenshots and a review right about now but it’s past 3am and I couldn’t sleep without getting this out there.

Oh, and you can control PicLens with your Apple remote!

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1 Glenn Wolsey October 20, 2006 at 3:51 am

Thanks for this, installing now.

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2 Justin Ruckman October 20, 2006 at 5:04 am

Holy shit. It’s not Apple I love anymore, it’s Apple developers.

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3 Emanuele Guicciardi October 20, 2006 at 7:50 am

Great! Thanks for this!

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4 Jay October 20, 2006 at 2:15 pm

Looks awesome, I wonder (and hope) if they’ll develope a version for Firefox?

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5 steve October 20, 2006 at 2:24 pm

apple never fails to amaze me- i came across this thing online with a bunch of internships- i think apple is on there, but it is sick take a look: http://www.sony.com/pursue-it

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6 oneighturbo October 20, 2006 at 3:25 pm

everybody and their grandmother has been posting about this one. I didnt jump in as I thought it was anotehr good one that would wear off in a few.

After Paul said you can control it with your Apple remote.. I’m on it.

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7 Adam October 20, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Whoa, this is very slick.

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8 Mads October 20, 2006 at 4:59 pm

Very very cool! Looks like something Apple might implement in Safari 4.0…

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9 vincent abry October 20, 2006 at 11:56 pm

Nice cool tool. thanks

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10 Ian October 21, 2006 at 6:39 am

Yet another reason I need to get myself a Mac!

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11 James Azelaic August 27, 2008 at 9:50 pm

ok so your the one who is responsible for this…was a pretty cool app i should say

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