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Post July 9th, 2008, 10:15 am

http://www.piclens.com/

Have you guys seen this? I installed it yesterday at work and it's absolutely amazing. Makes me want a touch screen real bad.
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Post July 9th, 2008, 10:15 am

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Post July 9th, 2008, 10:39 am

Interesting. Bookmarked that to check out in detail later.
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Post July 9th, 2008, 11:03 am

This is pretty cool, but I don't think I'll keep it around because little things that do stuff like the preview feature are a little bit annoying.

I am posting this inside the little preview window.
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Post July 9th, 2008, 11:03 pm

Wow, that is really cool. I don't know if it's more user friendly than what I'm already using. It at least doesn't have as many options. It's definitely helpful for looking at flickr photos because it's so sleek with the black background and so many photos displayed. For some reason the youtube search didnt' work for me though.

Should definitely try it out.
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Post July 10th, 2008, 12:46 am

We installed this at work on one of our G5's it was pretty sweet, but a little hard to navigate and not always practical, none the less very cool looking.
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Post July 10th, 2008, 2:54 am

Going to check this out a bit later, looks cool ... bookmarked ...
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Post July 10th, 2008, 6:21 am

it's pretty cool, but not sure I see myself using it all that much
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Post July 10th, 2008, 7:42 am

I thought it was amazing the first time I saw it but I didnt think I would use it that much either. as it turns out however I use it alot and I much prefer browsing pics with pic lens over scrolling through pages and hitting next page repeatedly. I guess its just a personal thing. but I like it alot
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Post July 10th, 2008, 7:49 am

I like using it with Google image search. Like typhon said, it makes it much easier to browse through pages of results.
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Post July 10th, 2008, 11:03 am

One little interesting thing I just did with it. I read about a bunch of recent spam floating around about how the US has invaded Iran and it links to several different websites claiming to have videos and stuff, but in actuality the sites load the storm worm to your computer. So I used the link preview feature of piclens to preview the site after I googled the domain name, and sure enough my antivirus software started shouting at me and it wouldn't let me preview the site. I guess it's good to know my a/v works!
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Post July 10th, 2008, 11:30 am

See its pretty to look at and it keeps ya safe :)
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Post July 10th, 2008, 12:07 pm

No! It didn't keep me safe, my antivirus kept me safe. I was thinking that since it was only a preview it would almost be like an image in a little pop up window, but that little preview feature is basically just a miniature full feature browser all in it's own.
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Post July 10th, 2008, 2:59 pm

ahhh welll it was a nice thought
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Post July 11th, 2008, 8:27 am

Hmm.. I wonder how difficult it would be for BWM to set up the necessary RSS feeds to allow people to use PicLens to browse Ozzu templates..
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Post July 11th, 2008, 11:59 am

Hey look, Wimbledon is enabled. ;)
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