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Snap – Add preview to your website

December 3, 2006

Snap is a search portal which shows a image preview for each search result. Unfortunately the search engine is not that great, it would have been nice if the they had used the Google search engine to show the search results However they have another service called Snap Preview Anywhere which I liked very much. [...]

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Firefox Extensions

November 3, 2006

One of the nice feature of Firefox Web browser is the ability to add new features via extensions. Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Firefox, from a simple toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow you to customize Firefox to fit your own needs and preferences. Note that extensions shouldn’t [...]

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PicLens

October 25, 2006

Alec from CoolIris mailed me regarding PicLens, a new product from CoolIris. (Check my post on CoolIris here) PicLens is a first-of-its-kind browser plug-in that transforms your browser window into an immersive cinematic experience for viewing web images. Compared to the traditional, sluggish way of viewing of images of the web, the PicLens viewing experience [...]

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Clickless Browsing

September 21, 2006

Some time back Saarr was released which helped in previewing a summary of a search result. The end result was that it helped in reducing the number of clicks. I was introduced to 2 more tools CoolIris and Browster (via Labnol) which unlike Saarr shows the complete page when you hover over the link. Browster [...]

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