PicLens Plugin for Firefox

brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
edited July 19, 2008 in Digital Darkroom
Anyone heard of this

http://new.piclens.com


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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    Anyone heard of this

    http://new.piclens.com

    looks neat, but does not seem to work on my site...

    bump...
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    Yeah, I heard of it about a year ago, when I think it was Mac only. I tried it, it's cool.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    Here you go. Just a google search away. mwink.gif
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    DavidTO wrote:
    Here you go. Just a google search away. mwink.gif
    does not seem to work correctly on you're site either...
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    does not seem to work correctly on you're site either...


    Well, I haven't set it up on my site.
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    DavidTO wrote:
    Well, I haven't set it up on my site.
    As far as I can tell from reading on their site, it's a plugin/addon for firefox... you don't "set it up" for your site... you load it on your computer and it "just works" on compatible sites.
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    Huh. That wasn't my impression.
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2008
    DavidTO wrote:
    Huh. That wasn't my impression.
    from their site...
    "PicLens is the web's premier media browsing experience. Install it on your browser to take media full-screen on popular sites like Google Images, Flickr, Facebook, and more."

    So I install it on my Firefox browser and look at your site using it... I can look at other sites (Andy's and Mike Lane's) w/o issue... it partially works on mine... on my homepage, but not in my galleries... and sort of works on your (their icon appears when I hover your thumbs, but the "window" that opens show blank pics...).
    I e-mailed the company as they say it's supposed to work w/ Smugmug, but it only displays and enlarges the thumbs on the page... to they look really bad...
  • cjyphotocjyphoto Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited February 2, 2008
    i just started playing around with it. If I use it on my site it gets most of but not all of the thumbs but when I double click to view a larger image it gets smaller.

    If I use the search tool in Piclens to find my pictures it does give the large view. ne_nau.gif
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  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    You have to log out for it to work properly. Works great with All Thumbs. Really neat stuff.

    To recap:

    - Download PicLens plug-in
    - Go to one of your SmugMug galleries with a lot of photos
    - Make sure you're logged out
    - Select All Thumbs view
    - Hover over one of your photos, and when it shows up, click on the "Play" button
    - Marvel!
  • MizMiz Registered Users Posts: 17 Big grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Hi,

    This is my first post, but I have been leerking for a while now, Great site and great people. I owe many of you a lot of money I would have otherwise spent on headache medicine.

    On the Piclens note,

    As great as Piclens is, has anyone noticed that if you use Piclens to view your own photos, it also finds the images in you hidden catagories? Would anyone know of any modifications that I could make to prevent that?

    Cheers

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  • cjyphotocjyphoto Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    darryl wrote:
    You have to log out for it to work properly. Works great with All Thumbs. Really neat stuff.

    To recap:

    - Download PicLens plug-in
    - Go to one of your SmugMug galleries with a lot of photos
    - Make sure you're logged out
    - Select All Thumbs view
    - Hover over one of your photos, and when it shows up, click on the "Play" button
    - Marvel!

    Nope. Does not work for me. Hover over photo and get blurry photo. Double click then get smaller blurry photo. I was hoping to suggest visitors to my site use this browser but I think I will wait 'till it is a little more refined.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    Miz wrote:
    Hi,

    This is my first post, but I have been leerking for a while now, Great site and great people. I owe many of you a lot of money I would have otherwise spent on headache medicine.

    On the Piclens note,

    As great as Piclens is, has anyone noticed that if you use Piclens to view your own photos, it also finds the images in you hidden catagories? Would anyone know of any modifications that I could make to prevent that?

    Cheers

    Miz
    Log out and see...
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Log out and see...
    Logged in or out does not seem to matter for me... ;(
    oh well, looked good... but not a necessity...
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    Logged in or out does not seem to matter for me... ;(
    oh well, looked good... but not a necessity...
    What do you mean? What is the issue please, elaborate so we can help & assist. Thanks.
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  • MizMiz Registered Users Posts: 17 Big grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Log out and see...

    Andy, I did and you can the photos in the hidden catagories, however I noticed that if I apply a passord to the hidden galleries, Piclens does not show them.

    Thank you!

    Cheers
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    What do you mean? What is the issue please, elaborate so we can help & assist. Thanks.

    If you're not familiar w/ the plugin you can see info about what it's supposed to do at their site www.piclens.com
    I've loaded it and enabled it.
    It works on the popular pics on my homepage, but not in any of my galleries. Does not matter if I'm logged in or out nor does it matter if the gallery allows links or not...
    If you load it and try it on your site you'll see it works (although not well as it only pulls from the thumbs).
    I can not figure out why it works for yours and not mine...
    If I put the .smugmug in the name of my gallery it works for some galleries, but not others.
    I e-mailed piclens and they seem to think it has to do with the feeds????

    Here's the thread where I asked about the feeds...
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=83578
  • HoyBoyHoyBoy Registered Users Posts: 135 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    Logged in or out does not seem to matter for me... ;(
    oh well, looked good... but not a necessity...

    It works just fine for me on your site.
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    HoyBoy wrote:
    It works just fine for me on your site.
    IE6, IE7 or firefox?
    Did you try various galleries?
    Boy... still won't work in most galleries...
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2008
    Piclens
    Wow! I tried it, and it works just fine with FF and IE7 under Win XP.
    You just need to select a correct browser version first and only then download it. Works great with my Smugmug site! clap.gif
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    Wow! I tried it, and it works just fine with FF and IE7 under Win XP.
    You just need to select a correct browser version first and only then download it. Works great with my Smugmug site! clap.gif
    I can get it to work correctly only if I un-click the "protection" in the gallery customization...ne_nau.gif
    Any it will only use the thumb images unless I am using the .smugmug in my url...
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    I can get it to work correctly only if I un-click the "protection" in the gallery customization...ne_nau.gif
    Any it will only use the thumb images unless I am using the .smugmug in my url...
    Hmm. I almost never use protection, so I wouldn't know.
    I'm using it against nik.smugmug.com, so, again, I haven't encounter the issue...ne_nau.gif
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  • brandofamilybrandofamily Registered Users Posts: 2,013 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2008
    Nikolai wrote:
    Hmm. I almost never use protection, so I wouldn't know.
    I'm using it against nik.smugmug.com, so, again, I haven't encounter the issue...ne_nau.gif
    I could make some very off color remark(s) right now, but I won't...
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    I could make some very off color remark(s) right now, but I won't...
    Lol... It is *I* who should be normally making these remarks... lol3.gif
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  • HoyBoyHoyBoy Registered Users Posts: 135 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    IE6, IE7 or firefox?
    Did you try various galleries?
    Boy... still won't work in most galleries...

    Firefox. No, I just did your front page. I can try it on some others.
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  • HoyBoyHoyBoy Registered Users Posts: 135 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2008
    brandofamily wrote:
    IE6, IE7 or firefox?
    Did you try various galleries?
    Boy... still won't work in most galleries...

    When I go into your galleries, it doesn't work at all. ne_nau.gif

    On 2nd look at your homepage, it acts odd there. It gives several photos, but if you scroll to the right there are lots of blanks. Then when you get clear to the end there is a smattering of photos.

    Definitely odd behavior. Nothing like when I view my own pages.
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  • darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2008
    One thing that sucks, compared to dare I say it, Flickr, is that even after switching to "all thumbs", Piclens does not show *all* of the photos in a gallery, only the ones for each page of thumbs that you're on.

    Also, if you have zoomed thumbs, double-clicking on a thumbnail in Piclens will not take you to the full-sized image.

    In contrast, a Piclens view of a Flickr "set" will include *all* the photos in the set, and the full-sized image always comes up, which makes for a much more dramatic demonstration of the Piclens UI.

    I imagine that just some tweaks in the RSS feeds or how Piclens interprets them would fix this.
  • cjyphotocjyphoto Registered Users Posts: 195 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2008
    Still have not been able to get this work right. I can go to a gallery of mine and click the arrow and PicLens will fire up but it only brings up low res images. If I searched for of my galleries in the PicLens Browser the hi res images were available. Now I just tried searching for SmugMug images using the PicLens browser and nothing showed up when searching smugmug. I did a search for "Seattle" and images showed up for every photosite except smugmug. I'm just wondering if smugmug wants PicLens to work on its images.ne_nau.gif
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  • OsirisPhotoOsirisPhoto Registered Users Posts: 367 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2008
    I'd like to see this working too.. same problem with the low-res thumbnails. Protection turned off for the purposes of testing..
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2008
    Hyperbaric wrote:
    I'd like to see this working too.. same problem with the low-res thumbnails. Protection turned off for the purposes of testing..
    I betcha last security changes are the culprit. Everything needs a major overhaul to accomodate for those "keys" ne_nau.gif
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