just browsing

I browse a lot online for pictures to illustrate this blog, but this article pointed me to the coolest way to do that yet. Piclens is a Firefox add-on that allows you first to search Google, Smugmug, Flickr and Youtube among others for photo or video content, then displays it in the most stunning, fullscreen, fluid wall display. Easy and fun to navigate, so great for browsing.

The only slightly clunky thing about it is that once you have found a photo you would like, a click brings you back to your regular Firefox view. A smooth transition to saving it or importing it might have been nice. In the meantime, just try it for yourself. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Even so, this is definitely a glimpse of browsing in the future, and I like it! I hope to try some other new browsing tools and will definitely report back.