This is a wonderful way of browsing photographic sites such as Flickr and others. It transforms your web browser into a sort of cinematic way to discover the photos and scroll through them.
Although I am not certain exactly what it is good for it is at least impressively fast and very nicely done and it plugs in with Flickr greatly. When checking out someones photo stream it is a lovely little tool.
Tags: addon, browse, browser, display, firefox, Flickr, photo, plugin, Software, Web
Well, tried it. Shows great views, but is a bit uncontrollable in my opinion.
Had trouble installing it too, somehow the extra terrestial view of what “helpful” means made me confused – I’d plea for a standard way of installing it.
Then it has limitations; for massive amounts of images (where this thing excels), you can only get “search”-found images into it (the flickr search looks for tags only), or those from a SINGLE webpage.
To have full use there is a registration requirement; a big “boo”.
Just one more possible source of problems, uninstalled.
/Hannu – in a negative mood? :-]
Ouch, the confused installation process has had the result of leaving files behind. Now I wonder whether the FILES are the only remainders.
WARNING:
DO NOT install this bugger with more than one tab open (IE7), that seems to be part of the problem.
Oh, so you use IE? Just… why, I know it’s painful but I did not think you’d be that kind of masochist. I have not come across a web page in ages that requires IE7 to work so I use Firefox most of the time and have started testing Google Chrome which is promising but I want Greasemonkey for it properly (Greasemetal is too buggy).
I might be a masochist, but I actually believe that a uniform user interface is worth something. Now, I have to admit it was some time since I last tried one of the free browsers – but then it was a pain to relearn everything you were used to.
In december I had the “opportunity” to have Office 2007 installed, as the first user at work (Somehow they considered ma a good “guinea pig” ;-p). It didn’t whet my apetite for mor of the same :-}
ma -> me
Well the IE has the most spaced-out interface of all the browsers, I think you should seriously take a look at the later versions of FF and perhaps Chrome if you want something sleek, fast and easy to use. And they all have so many wonderful add-ons that makes life easier.
Check out the multitude of Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr for example.