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So with the endless amount of new things that I get to encounter at my job I was shown the coolest photo plugin for firefox. A professor who is always scouring the infinite corners of the internet just to find things that students have not yet discovered stumbled across a plugin called Piclens. This little small 2MB plugin turns your facebook or google image search pages into a 3D frontrow like environment of picture bliss. The best thing about this clever plugin is that it’s totally free! What I’ve found particularly helpful is when I’m searching in google for a specific photo, using Piclens I can scroll into what seems an endless 3D wall of pictures. Find the one you want, just click on it and it immediately zooms into view. The picture’s resolution then becomes magically crisp. Brilliant!!

On thing I love about the way it interfaces with the broswer is that whenever you mouse over a picture on an approved site that it works with (google, facebook, myspace…and some more) it will show a small blue icon in the lower left corner of the image. So if you don’t want to view the picture(s) in Piclens, its so easy to bypass it. I definitely will put this on my list of favorite plugins for firefox. For Safari users, I believe at the current moment they are trying to work on making it compatible with the current version. Good luck..