Cooliris is a wonderfully fluid and superbly crafted free add-on for Safari, FireFox, and Internet Explorer, which will take you to places you never thought possible on a web browser.
If you want Picture-in-a-Picture browsing, with a cool free browser add-on that that gives you the power to preview links and rich media content without clicking the link, or leaving your current page, then Cooliris is for you.
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With Cooliris, just place your mouse cursor over your link, or over the Cooliris icon, and a customizable preview window of the website that the link points to instantly appears with the content; page view, image view, or even video.
You can fully interact with the preview window; play the video, click on links, fill out forms, and more. In fact, you can interact with the preview just as if you had the full page open. Opening the full page is easy; just click the Cooliris full page icon and you’re there.
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Using Cooliris is a great way to save time and reduce the drudgery involved in trying to determine which search results are worth investigating. Cooliris lets you take a quick look at each link to see if it’s worthwhile investigating further.
I use this add-on frequently as I build a web page, or when writing a Blog posting, to ensure that all included links are working. Cooliris definitely increases my productivity; what a time saver!
It’s no wonder Mozilla lists this neat little tool as a recommended FireFox add-on, and also includes it in its most popular list of browser add-ons.
Quick facts:
Preview web links, images, and videos without even clicking
View photos in full-screen mode
Drag, click, and zoom into a “3D Wall” interface
Search for web images
Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
Fly through 1000s of images in a split second
Instantly send links to friends and family with just a click.
Automatically search Google, Wikipedia, or virtually any searchable website by right-clicking on any phrase
Customize Cooliris to control preview window activation
iPhone compatible
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Expand your own Internet horizons, download and install Cooliris. You’ll be glad you did.
System Requirements: Cooliris currently supports FireFox (Windows XP/Vista and Mac), Internet Explorer, and Safari (Mac).
For a Cooliris video preview checkout YouTube
Download at: Cooliris
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i can’t remember what this app was called before but i found it to be a huge ff resource user – it caused ff to take forever to load so i removed it. it’s great eye candy but i have found picasa3 to do what i need.
Hey Glenn,
A variation of this application, PicLens, is the one you are probably
referring to. It’s unfortunate you find Cooliris such a resource hog – I
couldn’t work without it. I’ll do some investigation to find out if there is
a way around the high resource usage you experienced.
I’ll let you know.
Bill
How do you get pages like this one:
http://westcoastpiet.com/mike_cuy_page_2.htm
to load via Cooliris ??
Hi Dennis,
I don’t have an answer for this, and I suggest you contact Cooliris support at http://www.cooliris.com/support/.
Bill