Dropzone: The Swiss Army Knife of Drag and Drop
Its only when using a PC I realise how significant drag and drop functionality is on a mac and how it is mostly intuitive. However there are times when I wish things could be simpler. Step in Dropzone.
Basically Dropzone lives in your dock and you set up various locations and send-to actions like uploading to Flickr or an FTP Server. Then it simply awaits your dragging and dropping escapades!
Desklickr – Flickr sourced desktops…
We all like a bit of Eye-candy on our desktops. Desklickr directly feeds desktops from FLICKR to your mac desktop.
CompFight – Search thousands of FULLY FREE images…
Compfight is a search engine that references FLICKR but only returns results from images that have CREATIVE COMMONS licenses. This means that you can (mostly) freely use the images for your own purposes without feeling the wrath of an IP lawyer!..
It has a really nice and simple interface and works relatively quickly. Check it out.
Cooliris – Reloaded on the iPhone
jeez, I just installed the iPhone App (hot of the press) thanks to the lovely Jenny Lum letting me know that its available……..crikey it works reaaaaaally well, I was expecting it to be a lot slower than the safari app but hell no…..if anything it may even be faster!
For me the killer is being able to email images direct from the application, great for doing little bits of research on the bus etc. (I know not all of you are dorky beans like me!)
Definitely get this one guys and best of all its free!
Cooliris – The Cinematic Web…
Transform your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web. This is the promise of Cooliris and it kinda delivers.
Basically it is a plugin for Safari that adds a button to the Safari window that when pressed will invoke the cooliris view where you will see purely the media contained within certain (supported) websites. At the moment it is fairly restricted to flickr, google, amazon etc but you can also easily optimise your own website to work with cooliris by going to developer.cooliris.com (they have made it really easy to do!).
Even though its still a bit green its defintely worth downloading and adds an extra dash of Oooooo! to your browsing experience!
