Showing posts with label Firefox Plugins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox Plugins. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 December 2006

Cooliris Rocks! ...

... apart from a minor quibble, about which I will elaborate shortly.

The thing that really excited me when I watched the video tutorial was that you could highlight a word or phrase and, from the context menu, search an online dictionary, Google, Google images, or Wikipedia. That is very nice, indeed.


Now for the minor disappointment ... I thought this would be fantastic for blogging. As I was writing a post, I could highlight some of the text I'd penned, then use Cooliris to find a related image or Wikipedia entry, which is something I do all the time.

Unfortunately, the Cooliris menu item doesn't appear for text inside data entry fields!

There is a workaround that I can live with, though. If I preview my post, I can use Cooliris at that point. Since this is part of my normal way of working ... anal retentive that I am ... that's fine.

Who knows, maybe they'll add searching based on text boxes in a later release; I've already sent them a suggestion to do so. In any case, I definitely love the preview mechanism.

A Cool Link Preview Plugin

My mate Paul ... who is apparently now 95 and living in Afghanistan, according to his YouTube profile :-) ... told me about Cooliris, which is a Firefox plugin that allows you to see a preview of linked content just by hovering your mouse over the link.


I haven't had a play with it yet, because I need to restart Firefox for the plugin to be loaded ... and I'm busy blogging, damn it! ..., but it looks pretty impressive from the demo on the download site.