Thursday, December 24, 2009

Search Faster with Cooliris

Often search for images with Google Images or look for videos on Youtube? Tired of clicking "next page" when browsing through pages after pages after pages of results? Here's a little something that reduces the boredom and speeds up searching.

Recently I have installed and tried out Cooliris. It is program that runs on your internet browser. You can call it an extension or plugin too. It speeds up the browsing by putting all the results in a 3D wall. This wall lets user to scheme and scan through results almost instantly without the need to click "next page" and wait for the page to load.


It can search through Google Images, Flickr, DeviantArt, Youtube and several others. Other than that, you can browse through your own library of pictures in your own computer too.


In addition to that, you can use it to look through albums in Facebook as well. Perfect for those of you that have friends with hundreds of photos =P. With just a click of a button at bottom left corner of the album/picture, it launches Cooliris to view the album you chosen.


Fun to use as it seems, this thing also eats up your RAM. You will lose 100MB of RAM upon startup and an additional 100MB to 300MB or more depending on how long the wall goes.


Cooliris is available for all major browsers. Check it out at their official site. I'm using it on Chrome 4. For those of you who are using Chrome 4, you can get it from here.


Cheers~