PicLens Photo Browser Software
I happened upon a FireFox add-on called PicLens. I have to say, “WOW!” It is an add on for Mozilla Firefox. It works with Google’s Picasa and image search, Flickr, Yahoo, and Facebook. I would assume they will be adding functionality for other sites also.
What it does, is create a nice photo slide show for images in these sites. For instance, my son is really into birds. I can do a Google image search for a specific bird. I then point at any of the image search results. I translucent play arrow appears in the corner of the photo. Click that arrow. A new window will appear. PicLens reaches out to all the various sites from the search result and grabs the full size photo. The really amazing thing happens though when you click the play arrow in the slide show view. It downloads all the search image results from various websites and plays them in a smooth slide show. Very, very cool for image browsing.
This free add-on is well worth the install!!