Image by haglundc via FlickrMy colleague Brian Poulter pointed me to this new service called CoolIris (formerly PicLens). Installed on your computer, it acts as a visual browser, letting you search photos and videos from around the web in a “3d” panel mode (I wish people would stop using the term “3D” to describe visual effects that happen on a 2-dimensional screen that simulate 3D. It works through a Firefox extension, and you can add a plug-in for WordPress weblogs as well, which will create a slideshow using images you upload into a blog post. #

Although I installed the plug-in here, it doesn’t appear to work correctly at present. Could be an issue with PHP. We’re looking to upgrade the blog to a newer version of WordPress soon, so I’ll see what I can do to get it fixed. #

If you want to see an example of how CoolIris looks, you should be able to click the “start slideshow” link below. #

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