Spacedmonkey

As the internet changes from mainly text based content to rich media such larger images and flash videos, it is getting harder to view it all this within your browser. In comes Piclens, a browser pluggin for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. This simple piece of software changes the way we ingest media from the internet. PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images and video on the web. It collects all the images or videos on a supported web site and allows you to scroll through them in a wonderful 3D slideshow.

It doesn’t work on every site, which is a bummer, the site has to go out of it’s way to support it but some sites but the most important sites like Facebook, Flickr and Google images. It works extremely with Flickr and Facebook, it is not only does it do a slideshow of all the images on the current page, but all the images in the current album. When looking for an image for a night out, now all I need to do is scroll through the whole album using my mouse. The best bit it that it works with Youtube as well, so you are easierly browser through videos. Best of all on Youtube, becuase it is not reloading adverts and comments on the page, when you view a new video it is so much faster to stream the video.

To me, this pluggin is one of the best piece’s of software that I have ever used. For me it has changed the view I interact with the internet to the point where I can not do with out this pluggin. I have even enabled this site with Piclens, try it on the footer images. I have installed it on all my friend’s computers and blown them away with the amazingness of this simple piece of software. Take a look at it in action.