CoolIris for iPhone

A few days ago,I had posted a review for CoolIris,which can be found here Apparently my post caught the eye of the developer team,and they have updated me twice about what's going on with their project.It's been interesting to hear from them,since I especially liked their mozilla firefox plugin,using it regularly myself.
Here's what Jenny from the CoolIris team had to say


"Hi again Varun,
Again, thanks for supporting Cooliris!
I wanted to let you know that we've got some exciting news to announce from Cooliris! Now you can experience Cooliris anywhere and anytime by navigating the mobile web with our brand new iPhone App. Cooliris for the iPhone is the fastest way to browse media-rich web content on the go.

Searching the Web with the Cooliris iPhone app displays your results in the same intuitive, easy-to-navigate manner you've come to expect from the Cooliris web client. The Cooliris iPhone app overcomes the traditional limitations of mobile internet browsing by coupling the breezy, open-ended feel of the 3D Wall with the streamlined hands-on interface of the iPhone touchscreen.

Cooliris for the iPhone brings you the news and articles relevant to you from across the Web with our Discover feeds. All of the Discover feeds available on our web client have been optimized for the iPhone, so you'll always have the latest current events at your fingertips.

No matter where you are in the world, Cooliris delivers content that is relevant to where you are based. Since the iPhone can detect your location through GPS, you'll get news customized to your locale (UK users will automatically have a UK News feed available to them, for example). This will be a huge boon to our enthusiastic international user base. Discover also allows you to pull up the related story within its web context by clicking the associated metadata. There's no need to jump out of Cooliris and visit the parent website in order to get the full story!

This is only the first release for Cooliris on the iPhone, and as such it's meant to help you navigate the internet's news and media as simply and easily as possible. As the application grows, you'll be seeing more features currently only available on the web client, as well as new ones which take advantage of the iPhone's unique interface – so stay tuned!

You can check out our app at http://blog.cooliris.com/.

Kindest regards,
Jenny & The Cooliris Team"


(this is a comment on my original post about the app.)
Now I'm not one of the lucky guys to own an iPhone (yet!) But until I lay my hands on one,why don't you,the readers,try this out and tell me if it works well?

Also a thanks to the CoolIris team for keeping me updated :D

Cooliris 1.8.3

CoolIris (formerly Piclens) is a plugin for Firefox,which let's you watch images (photos) from a whole host of services,in a separate 3-D view.CoolIris uses the mediaRSS service provided by these image sites to retrieve media and presents it to us (users) on a magnificent 3-D wall.
You can move around on the wall previewing pics and zoom up on the ones you like,to take a better look at the once you like.

The Complete list of supported services (as provided by developers) is as follows

* Google Image Search
* YouTube
* Flickr
* Facebook
* MySpace
* Photobucket
* DeviantArt
* KodakGallery
* Picasa Web Albums
* Smugmug
* FotoTime
* Fotki
* Getty Images
* Bebo Hi5
* Friendster
* Yahoo Image Search
* Ask Image Search
* Live Image Search
* AOL Image Search

basically I think this plugin is nothing but eye-candy,one that I don't ever want to stop having.

Steps:
1.Install Firefox(if you don't already have it)

2.Install CoolIris from here and restart Firefox.

3.Now visit any of the sites listed above and type in a search word.On getting the results,mouseover one of the images. You will see something like an arrow on the Thumbnail (See below)

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4.Click The Arrow to launch CoolIris.You will see a view something like this

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5.Navigate around,looking for a pic you would like to see in complete size.

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6.Press enter when your desired pic is in focus,to see it in full size

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Please comment if you liked this plugin.If you are already using it,share with me and the readers how you liked it,via comments
Big thanks to the developers.This one has really grown on to me

Cheers
Varun