Research just became fun
The future of research - faster and, more importantly, fun.
- Install the new browser plug-in called PicLens
- Restart your browser
- Go to google image search and search for your favorite artist or model (my good friend, designer Daniel Palacios, suggests trying his favorite model ‘vida guerra‘ if you can’t think of anything else)
- click the new ‘play’ icon on each thumbnail.
- Enjoy
Credit to Danny for showing me this thing… It’s become my new favorite way to search since it’s so fast. Many more technologies from these guys coming soon that will revolutionize the way we research and interact with images.
// jayse
Share It!Filed under: Design Technique on January 16th, 2008
i totally love this! i used it all day today! you always share the best toys - thanks
This thing is what I’ve being waiting for a long time. I enjoy the feature that is integrated so well into FIREFOX and it works for allmost any image search engine…….PICLENS is in the future……
oh hey! I did not see this. How great this is! I use it on the mac and it’s fluid like water!
This is soooo awesome! Thanks for sharing hun. I use it all the time now and couldn’t see ever going back!
Okay, I might be too stupid again, but I unistalled this very fast after I was not able to open the image-URLs or save the images from PicLens. Is there a way?
jfml - no it’s not obvious how to do it - but if you’re zoomed into an image and you close it you will be looking at that image’s page where you can download it.
Next update I think they will have more of a simple rightclick option!
I think I’ve read something simillar a few days ago. I don’t remember where, might have been on digg or wikipedia, not sure.