Tuesday, 28 February 2006

PicLe Plugin for Safari, beta

Jason ell at Macworld just ti ed me off to PicLe . PicLe is a Safari-only plugin from Cooliris that enables gorgeous full-screen slideshows on the fly, out of whatever set of images you are currently viewing in Flickr, Photobucket, Facebook, as well Google, Yahoo and Ask.com Image search engines.

Once the plugin is i talled, you'll notice a discreet slideshow icon in the lower left corner when you mouse over a slideshow-a ropriate thum ail on one of the abovementioned sites. Click that icon and watch your monitor fill with the slideshow. Then you can navigate by using the o creen slideshow controls ala iPhoto or use your keyboard - or even your A le Remote! To exit out of the slideshow and return to your browser window, just hit your escape key. If you're like me, you might not be impre ed with this concept at all until you've tried it for yourself - but trust me, it's pretty cool.

Even more impre ive is that for now at least - it's only compatible with Safari, which is a trend I wouldn't mind continuing! You'll need 10.4 or later as well since it needs Safari 2.0.

You can download Beta 1 for free and if for some reason you don't like it or have a problem with it, you'll find the "Remove PicLe " menu under the View menu in Safari. Let us know what you think!

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