At least this would be my guess. It’s called PicLens and takes viewing pictures on the Internet to the next level. Say, you browse a Flickr gallery of a friend, but the page only displays so many pictures at once. What if, you could seem ‘em all, at once? Well PicLens allows you this, Apple TV style. Remember the ads Apple was running with this kind of wall of TV shows in the background? Well like this, only in 3D and with live imagery from the web.
Get the picture. Apple TV style.
You can click and drag, the wall moves with you in 3D. If you have looked for images on Google, the wall keeps extending itself with the search results. I’m serious. It just builds itself. And if you wanna get a better idea of an image, well, just click on it.
A preview of a selected image, in full quality
Ah yes, and if you wanna see the image in full glory, double-click it. It zooms in and gives you slideshow controls and a filmstrip on the bottom.
Boom!
iPhoto, anyone?
All of this is, amazingly, free and is supported on Mac OS X and Windows, works with Safari and Firefox. It installs itself as a plug-in and requires the browser to restart. It works with nearly every major site that hosts and displays images, such as Flickr (obviously), Google Images, DeviantArt, Picasa, Facebook, Yahoo, and many more.
In Firefox, in your toolbars you should see a new button, a blue rectangle with a white play button. Press this whenever you are at a one of those sites and you wanna see all images. Especially great on Flickr and DeviantArt!
My guess is that this or something like it comes to OS X 10.6 (and I think it’s named Cougar).
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