Thursday, March 13, 2008

pic lens - a review

I checked out the piclens, Firefox plug-in last week and WOW! It’s waaaaay cool! Basically it turns Google Images, Flickr, Photobucket or a few other photo sites into really cool, full-screen interactive galleries.
Good points:
  1. The resolution/quality is amazing. They must have some sort of filter that sharpens the images because even small images look quite crisp blown up.
  2. You can quickly scan through hundreds of photos just by dragging along the scroll bar
  3. Very cool eye candy
Bad points:
  1. It’s just eye candy. I was very surprised to find that once you are in PicLens, there is no way to link straight to a given photo on the site it appears on. Or at least if there is, I haven’t been able to find it in 1 week of using it quite frequently.
  2. firefox starts taking more memory(expected) over and above the known memory inefficiencies of firefox
  3. avaialable only for windows which sucks big time.

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