PicLens – Fullscreen Image Browser

January 29, 2008 by Peter in Blog, Computing, Photography | 1 Comment

Cooliris has created a really interesting image viewer add-on for your browser. PicLens is a full-screen viewer for multiple images, whether in slide-show format or in a “wall” of images that can be clicked, dragged, zoomed, etc.:

It is available for various browsers, including IE, Firefox and Safari. I have tried the IE and Firefox ones and I can say that the IE one is a disappointment when compared to the Firefox add-on. IE only offers a 2D view and a slideshow, while the Firefox version really shows off the wall function (Flickr credit to t-dot-s-dot):

Download and install this add-on and go visit your favourite Flickr page, a Google Image search result, and more. They even have a WordPress plugin so that it can be incorporated into a personal site as well.

New site

January 27, 2008 by Peter in Blog, Photography | Leave a comment

I’ve just created a new site called pocophotos.com. The idea with this site is to be a place (yet another) to view pictures about the Poco area. Right now John and I will be the main contributors, but I hope to grow that.

Honestly, more of an exercise than a site but hey if you do an exercise and end up with a site, so be it ;).

Home Again Home Again

August 18, 2007 by Peter in Photography, Travel | Leave a comment

After some horrendous traffic in Washington (flipped semi near Centralia, rush hour in Tacoma and construction in Seattle) we finally got home after driving about 10.5 hours. Long day, but glad to have done it in one stretch and be back. One bright spot – News1130 said there was a 40 minute border lineup. There were 3 cars. News1130 said that Highway 1 was backed up to 200th coming in from the valley. Nope, smooth sailing all the way. So don’t believe everything you hear ;).

So we’re home, but not for long – we leave Saturday morning for a Sechelt B&B for definite relaxation with Bruce & Janice. In the meantime, I have tried to catch up on the blogs (anyone notice?) and have also managed to post a small number of the over 2300 pictures that (mostly) I managed to take while we were gone. You can view them here.

I’ll post after we get back from Sechelt, no doubt with other pics.