A Detailed Overview of Cooliris - Add Cinematic Experience to Your Online Photo & Video Browsing

Cooliris (formerly PicLens) transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search, discover, view and share online photos, videos and more. The 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 site. Actually it provides you with a browsing experience of photos and videos which is larger than life and what we can rarely find in other applications we use. Esp designed for people who have a knack to beautify whatever they come across.

Features

1. Feature Films and TV Shows

Pass the popcorn and watch your favorite Movies, TV Shows, and Music Videos right within Cooliris. This is a new feature introduced by them in the latest version.

2. Mark Your Favorites

Keep track of the best items in Cooliris by adding it to your own custom feed! Works cool!

3. Preferences

Customize the look and feel of Cooliris - modify the number of rows, background image, wall angle, slideshow speed and more!

4. Search

It’s the fastest way to search Google Image Search, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, online retailers, and other sites. Zip through search results on the 3D Wall with our search function. Switch engines effortlessly without having to re-enter the search term. So its relatively easy.  Right now it has support for the following sites.

* 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

5. Share with Your Friends

Share stuff with friends by dragging and dropping content from the 3D Wall. You can share as many items as you’d like, and even add a personal message to it. So it works more like a multimedia IM.

6. Visual News

Channel surf the latest news, sports, entertainment, and technology news using Discover.

7. Jump to Page

A picture tells a thousands words, but sometimes you just want to see the detailed story behind it all. Cooliris makes that easy. A click of a button lets you toggle between Cooliris and the corresponding web page of any item.

8. Slideshows

Double clicking an image or pressing the toggle button brings you to full-screen slideshow mode. There, you can play, pause, fast forward, and rewind at will.

9, 3D Window Shopping

Window shop some of the world’s largest retailers by comparing products visually on the Cooliris 3D Wall. Highlight an item to learn the price or click the shopping cart icon to jump to the corresponding product page of the retailer. Use it to know more about this feature.

Compatibility

Cooliris has a wide range of compatibility. Windows XP, WIndows Vista, Mac OSx Leopard etc and in browsing perspectives Mozilla 2,3. Safari and Flock is also supported. Unwisely Linux and Opera are left out which I hope they will pay heed to in coming days.

Cooliris for iPhone

Cooliris has a wonderful app for iPhone too.

iPhone App Features

1. YouTube 3D Search

Swipe through a 3D Wall of YouTube Videos, sit back and enjoy. Never miss a cool movie with Discover’s Cool Videos Channel.

2. Cool wallpapers

With the wallpaper channel in Discover, rapidly find that perfect backdrop for your phone.

3. Cooliris saves

Some things are worth saving. Just tap the Save to Camera Roll icon to save the image to the Camera Roll.

4. Don’t stop the Rock

Watch hundreds of music videos all through the new Music Video’s channel in Discover.

5. All the latest news

Get the latest News, Sports and Entertainment news from places like CNN, ABC, AP, ESPN and many more right on your phone

6. Multi-Search

Search for Images across Google, Flickr, Picasa, DeviantArt, Yahoo, and SmugMug.

Conclusion

All in all its a great app for people who like to give importance to look of things. Even being an uninterested nerd, you will still love the awesome interface and graphics they have put on. It is really cool and give it a try. Will ya?

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