Antecedentes

Finalmente Cooliris ha aggiunto il supporto per Linux!

Scaricatelo qui!

This week, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) , we posted a brief  post to focus your attention on Cooliris in its, not well known, Linux version. In fact on Linux, you are not always allowed to install directly Cooliris as Firefox add-on and the same happens when you try to install Cooliris using the Firefox Add-on official webpage   In this case, the only solution we have, is represented by surfing on the Cooliris homepage and click on the Linux version in the Downloads Page. The xpi file will be immediately opened and in just few clicks it is installed. Cooliris allows you to search videos, images and photographs in many sites (Google Image Search, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, online retailers, and other sites), watch them on a 3D wallpaper or on a full-screen slideshow using the toggle button. This program contains also an interesting bunch of channels as News, Sport, Photos of the day, Music Videos, Comedy, etc.. UsingCooliris you can also share your multimedia stuff with friends or keep them in your Favorites. At the moment this Linux version of Cooliris runs on Firefox 3.1+ using Ubuntu 8.04+, Fedora 10.0+ or OpenSuse 11+. Recommended!

Önce basit bir Firefox eklentisi olarak hizmete başlayan Cooliris, başlarda PicLens adıyla tanıdığımız başarılı bir fotoğraf ve video görüntüleyicisi. Yeni versiyonda bilgisayarınızdaki içeriğe de ulaşabiliyorsunuz.

PicLens adıyla Flickr, Facebook ve Google görüntü arama gibi popüler fotoğraf içeriklerini yansımalı, siyah arkaplanda şık ve animasyonlu bir şekilde görüntüleyen uygulamanın adı kısa süre önce değiştirilip Cooliris haline getirilmişti. Başlarda basit bir Firefox eklentisinden ibaret olan uygulama yeni versiyonuyla oldukça gelişti.

Cooliris basitçe tarayıcınızı gelişmiş bir görüntü izleme aracına dönüştürüyor. Macintosh kullanıyorsanız iPhoto ile, Windows kullanıyorsanız belgelerim içerisindeki ‘resimlerim’ klasörü izlemeye alınıyor. Bu sayede en basit kullanıcı dahi içeriğin nerede olduğunu söylemeden görüntülemeye başlayabiliyor İnternetteki görüntülerin de rahat ve kolay bir şekilde araştırılmasını sağlayan uygulama, standart olarak Flickr, Google görüntü arama, Deviantart işleri, YouTube videoları gibi popüler görüntü servislerinde tek tıkla arama yapma imkanı tanıyor.

Google’ın Picasa 3.0 versiyonuyla bilgisayardaki fotoğraf görüntüleyicisinin yerini aldıktan sonra Cooliris’in bilgisayardaki fotoğrafları görüntüleme özelliğini eklemesi oldukça yerinde bir hareket. Uygulama ayrıca yeni versiyonuyla Linux platformuna da adım attı.

İndirmek için:
Firefox 3 (PC) (Mac)

Safari (Mac)

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Acaba de salir la nueva versión de una de las mejores extensiones para Firefox: Cooliris 1.10; y esta vez, por fin, es compatible con Linux.

La extensión nos permite buscar y visualizar imágenes y vídeos con un interfaz muy atractivo y muy sencillo de utilizar.

Altamente recomendable. Puedes instalar la extensión directamente, o visitar su página web.

Cooliris, uno de mis add-ons favoritos para firefox, estaba disponible solo para windows aghh
Afortunadamente hace poco me encontre con la sorpresa de que muy pronto estara disponible para linux.
Para instalarlo y ver de que se trata basta con ir a esta pagina y dar clic en Download en el enlace correspondiente a tu sistema operativo. A pesar de ser “beta” a mi me ha funcionado bastante bien. Espero que muy pronto liberen la version oficial.

Si no sabes de que se trata cooliris, aqui dejo una demostracion

Snap Shot of kurodata.net cooliris feed

Get a whole new experience of watching photos/videos in the web. Cooliris is a plugin for your browser (Internet Explorer / Firefox / Safari – Windows and Macintosh ). After the installation you will notice a play button if you surf through albums like Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo and others. By pushing the play button you will get a full-screen 3D wall with the content listed. Really looks cool.

you can find the free plugin at Coliris.com
*note : Cooliris was / is also known as Piclens

A list of installed Firefox Add-ons

One of the great things about Firefox and its community of developers is the sheer number of additional applications you can add which extend Firefox’s features (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox). You can also pick and choose those which suit your needs best. So to give you an idea, here’s the current round up of the Add-ons I use and think are either cool and/or useful or essential, as well as one or two worth a mention but I don’t use. I’m also assuming that you are using the most recent version of Firefox (3.0.6 at time of writing)

Abduction

This rather cool tool allows you to take a snapshot image of webpages, or parts of a web page using its cropping feature, and save these as a JPEG or PNG image. I often find this useful for saving things such as maps.

British English Dictionary

If you have not already found it, Firefox gives you the option to spell check anything you type or write within the Firefox web browser, underlining any words its does not know with a dotted red line which you can then right click to see spelling options (Tools>Options>Advanced>Browsing: “Check my spelling as I type”). When you installed Firefox it probably installed by default with the English US language pack. This add-on is the British English Language pack for Firefox.

ColorfulTabs

ColorfulTabs is one of those cool add-ons which are more obvious and helps with the browsing experience, particularly if you keep lots of tabs open at the same time. Quite simply it colours each tab you open differently, making it just that little bit easier to find. You can also customise ColorfulTabs to use the colour schemes that you prefer and if you want change the background colour of tab bar itself.

Viewing images using Cooliris

Cooliris

This was formly known as Piclens, but its the same application by the same company, and to my mind its one of the best applications you can add to Firefox. Browsing images just becme much quicker and cooler. Quite simply if you browse lots of images or an album (eg Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, etc) or want to search for images, Cooliris puts these onto an immersive 3D wall for you which you can scroll and take a virtual walk down.

Diigo Bookmarks and Web Annotation

Have you ever come across web pages and wanted to highlight a few words or sections or add a sticky note to the page to remind you about something on it? Or share web pages with others? Well you can with Diigo. You’ll need open a Diigo account – http://www.diigo.com (its free!), but this then opens up a whole new world of being able to share web resources with others (if you want to), finding similar pages or even using as a research tool which you can collaborate with others over. Eg. in a recent project I was working on we would bookmark relevant articles/pages using Diigo and be able to add notes so that when other members of the team found them, they also had our notes. We were using this for an academic project so think what you can do if it was encouraged for use in school work.

Ebay Sidebar for Firefox

If you’re an Ebay user then you’ll probably like this one. It’s developed by Ebay and uses a secure connection with your account to open up a side bar, on your browser, which shows you the current status of all the items you are watching and/or bidding on, without having to open up Ebay in a new browser window.

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchroniser

This is a very useful add-on if you work from several different machines or even if you are likely to go away and want to access your favourite bookmarks from aanother machine, be it at friends or internet cafe. This nifty add-on allows you upload your bookmark list to a central server and then access this from anywhere you like. You’ll need a Foxmarks account (http://www.foxmarks.com/), but your account is private and password protected so only you can see or access your bookmarks. What’s more Foxmarks keeps your bookmarks synchronised with any machine you have the add-on installed. So if you are working from several machines (eg work and home) any bookmarks you add on say your machine at work, will also be available to you at home.

Foxmarks also offers to sychronise your saved password list (if you use this on Firefox), but you can switch this off and I must admit I’m very reluctant to use any such service. Any security can be breached and while my bookmarks are no big secret, somebody else having access to my passwords could be disaster.

Google Gears

For many this is not an essential bit of kit, and for me this is a recent install I am trialling as it offers potentially more powerful web applications by (and I’m cribbing the Google Gears site here)… letting web applications interact naturally with your desktop, allowing web applications to store data on your machine in a fully-searchable database and run JavaScript in the background to improve performance.

In this instance I’ve installed Google Gears to allow a web based task management system “Remember the Milk” (RTM) to be able to work offline.

Google Notebook

Very useful extension that lets you copy and paste any snippits or images from web pages (notes) and automatically records the URL of the web page you took it from so you can easily return to the page later. Very simple and very useful.

IE Tab

Almost an essential unforutnately, but not every website renders or works in Firefox. IE Tab allows you view any web page you want as though its in Internet Explorer without having to open up IE itself.

PDF Download

PDF Download is a neat add-on that allows you to choose how you view and download any PDF files on the web, letting you view them in an HTML window or downloading them and opening them with your default PDF file viewer.

Web of Trust

Web of Trust (WOT) installs and provides a new icon in your tool bar alerting you to the security of the web site you are visiting, rated by others in the WOT community on Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, Privacy and Child Friendliness. You’ll also get an interim warning page which alerts you to when you are about to visit any pages pregarded as being particularly untrustworthy.

Zotero

Zotero allows you to create your own reference library, built up from the web and files on your own machine. It is one of those brilliant tools for when you are carrying out any sort of research using the net or just collating information for later use. But Zotero does not make the information shareable, so if you prefer workign with others and sharing information you’ll probably prefer Diigo, but Zotero does allow you add normal word documents and pdf files to your Zotero reference library.

Honourable mentions:-

Fission

More what one would call ‘eye candy’ for Firefox but Fission marries together in Firefox the download progress bar with the address bar, so that the address bar from then on shows the download progress of the web page as well as the URL of the page.  Although I found this a neat feature I also found that some internet pages I regularly use, namely Google Calendar, lost some of their functionality. With Google Calendar for instance I found I was no longer able to create a new appointement by simply clicking into the day I wanted it. So unfortunately Fission got uninstalled, but if I remember, I’ll check it out again at a later point to see if it I can use it without it affecting my more essential web applications.

“Transform your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the web.” Cooliris Website.

“Cooliris (formerly PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search, discover, view and share online photos, videos and more. Our unique “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly zoom your way around thousands items on a single, ever-expansive wall. It’s the fastest way to search and enjoy Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, and hundreds of other sites.” FireFox AddOn Page.

How cool is this? A Firefox plugin that raises the bar for all other image browsers. Installing it will add a small ‘play’ button to images on Flickr, Picasa and tons of other sites. Clicking that button open the PicLens screen where you can intuitively browse through the gallery in 3D. Very easy to set up, and a surefire way to impress your friends.

http://www.piclens.com

Gran atractivo visual, dinamismo, interacción. Estas son las principales caracteristicas de este plugin.

Este plugin transforma tu pantalla en un muro 3D donde se observan las imagénes del sitio que estés visitando haciendo muy facil la busqueda de imágenes y videos.

También dispone de buscador donde podemos acceder al contenido deseado directamente y visualizarlo muy fácil, en este servicio disponemos de motor de busqueda en sitios como Youtube, Google o Yahoo.

La lista de sitios mas populares subscritos son estos:

* Google Images
* YouTube
* Flickr
* Facebook
* MySpace
* Photobucket
* DeviantArt
* KodakGallery
* Picasa Web Albums
* Smugmug
* FotoTime
* Fotki
* Getty Images
* Bebo Hi5
* Friendster
* Yahoo Image Search
* Ask Image Search
* Live Image Search
* AOL Image Search

Una aplicación que por lo menos, te agradará la vista.

Un saludo.

Autor: The Cooliris Team

Enlace Cooliris.

Link de descarga.

Ich habe die Möglichkeit, meinen Photoblog mittels „Cooliris” (früher „PicLens“) zu betrachten, zwar schon länger eingebaut gehabt, aber viele kennen dieses Addon für Firefox bzw. Internet Explorer 6 und 7 vermutlich nicht. Aus diesem Grund möchte ich es euch mit diesem Beitrag vorstellen. Bei den hier gezeigten Bildern handelt es sich um “Screenshots” aus Cooliris, wie ich gerade durch die virtuelle Galerie auf meinem Photoblog “spaziere”.

Wenn jemand nun interesse hat, mehr darüber zu erfahren, dem rate ich auf meinem Blog vorbeizuschauen und meinen original-Beitrag zu lesen.

Esta aplicación se instala directamente en Firefox como un complemento, es una nueva forma de explorar aplicaciones y videos desde un interfaz muy vistoso y muy bien logrado.

Cuando alguna imagen sea mostrada en el navegador procedente de una búsqueda de google y se pase el ratón por encima,  se desplegará un pequeño icono en la parte inferior izquierda de la propia imagen y al dar click se abrirá la cooliris en pantalla completa mostrándonos la imagen seleccionada mas todas las imagenes relacionadas con la búsqueda original.

Otra forma de abrir la aplicación es dando click al icono que ha sido creado en la parte superior derecha del navegador. Los motores de búsqueda de medios son: Shopping, Flickr, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, devianART, SmugMug y Photpbucket.

Es impresionante esta nueva forma de ver imagenes y video, muy recomendable si es que te gusta visualizar muchas fotos y vídeos.

Enlace | Cooliris |

Cooliris (formerly PicLens)

Full-Screen, 3D — Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for searching, viewing, and sharing online photos and videos. Our “3D Wall” lets you effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images, videos, movie trailers, news feeds, and even online retailers. To share stuff with friends, just drag and drop. See our demo at http://cooliris.com/demo .

Cooliris works on thousands of Media RSS-enabled web sites and blogs (see http://developer.cooliris.com), and the following popular websites:

* Google Images
* YouTube
* Flickr
* Facebook
* MySpace
* Photobucket
* DeviantArt
* KodakGallery
* Picasa Web Albums
* Smugmug
* FotoTime
* Fotki
* Getty Images
* Bebo Hi5
* Friendster
* Yahoo Image Search
* Ask Image Search
* Live Image Search
* AOL Image Search

To use Cooliris on the above sites, (1) visit the gallery on that site, and then (2) click the Cooliris that appears above images and videos as you mouseover them.

Available for Windows and Mac on Firefox 2.0 and 3.0+

Now also available for safari browzer.

There is a add-on introduced in Mozilla Firefox that provides a 3D wall for displaying the search results.All images will be displayed in a 3D wall and you can easily move from one page to another by simply dragging the mouse.To add this feature to your browser goto Tools menu and select Add-ons and then select Get Add-ons tab.After that search for CoolIris or Piclens.From the result Install CoolIris, while searching click CoolIris icon on the top right corner and enjoy a new world of browsing….

Udhaya

KPS and Co

I recently discovered this pulg-in for firefox, which I thought was really cool especially for the creative people view referens images, Flick (images), Google, facebook, YouTube and more. The plug-in is called, Cooliris and can be found here.

Enjoy

J.

Leonora di Schetchin oggi ci segnala un nuovo modo affascinante per navigare in rete, inserendo foto e video in un unico megascreen 3D.

Basta installare la leggera estensione di Firefox (o Safari) e potrete subito aggiungere foto e video da Flickr, DeviantArt, Facebook, e da qualsiasi altra ricerca su Google.

Che aspettate? Basta un click.

(Per i più diffidenti qui il video di presentazione).

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For as long as I can remember, I have been highly skeptical of the concept of browser plug-ins as a business. Whenever I’d learn of a browser plug-in startup fetching millions of dollars in venture funding, I’d just shake my head. And while my skepticism hasn’t really gone away, I am beginning to view a select few of these players with fresh eyes.

What brought on this change of heart? A chance meeting with a senior executive at two-and-a-half-year-old Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Cooliris, which has developed a software that can be added on to any popular browser on either Mac or Windows and essentially allows you to browse the web in 3-D. I have been using this plug-in for a few weeks now, and I have become a reluctant admirer, as it allows me to sift through copious amount of information — images and videos in particular — very quickly.

Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens) recently hired Shashi Seth, formerly chief of monetization at YouTube, as its chief revenue officer. Last week, he shared some interesting facts about the company. Among them:

• Since launching the software back in January — and without spending a dime — Cooliris now has 2.4 million monthly active users, and continues to add between 30,000 and 50,000 new users every day.
• An average active user spends at least 30 minutes using Cooliris to sift through information.
• There are 9 billion pieces of content that have been shared by their users, and nearly 270 million pieces have been “interacted” with.

Outstanding numbers aside, can Cooliris make money? Seth thinks they can. Indeed, the company recently ran a test advertising campaign that resulted in a clickthrough rate of over 5 percent, a very high number considering that most online ad campaigns get clickthrough rates of less than 1 percent.

The early results have attracted a few advertisers, each of whom are willing to wage a few thousand dollars on the plug-in. And Seth was even more enthusiastic about a new kind of shopping cart Cooliris has developed for Amazon, which in a test led to a total bill of around $32 per cart. As this could be a way for the company to generate commissions, Cooliris is now planning to launch an extended version of that shopping system that would include several other online retailers, including Apple’s iTunes Store and Wal-Mart.

Admittedly, these are early days for Cooliris. But its test stats were intriguing enough that I was inspired to more closely examine the other browser plug-ins are installed on my Firefox browser that I use most often, just to see if there were some with similar utility, usage and potential as Cooliris.

Apart from Cooliris, my short list includes Digg, Adaptive Blue’s Blue Organizer and FoxMarks. While Digg is hardly a browser-based company, those four browser plug-ins all do the following:

• They offer me something valuable as they try and make money off my surfing habits.
• With the exception of Digg, the other three mask complex technology behind what seem like simple browser add-ons. Take for instance Foxmarks, which is essentially a simple tool that allows you to sync your browser bookmarks across multiple computers. All this information when harnessed and processed can be used to build a “better recommendation service” for web-based information.
• Most importantly, they allow me to either save or organize information I gather on the web on a daily basis. And by doing so, they help me sift through tons of information very easily.

If browser plug-ins have these essential qualities, then maybe there’s a stand-alone business there after all. We’ll see.

Image courtesy of Cooliris.

This article also appeared on BusinessWeek.com.