Something cool

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a couple weeks, but the Google Chrome browser comes with a slew of add-ons, called “extensions,” to enhance and make users’ browsing experience more productive. One of the more unique and aesthetic extensions is called Cooliris, which is sort of a visually pleasing way to browse the Internet. Once installed in Chrome (which takes only seconds), users see a large menu to the left with items ranging from “Photos of the Day” to “News” to “Sports” to “Movies and Trailers” to “Games” and more. Once a menu item is clicked, the user is then able to scroll through items of interest in sort of a visual vortex or a tunnel-esque collage. To see what I mean, here is a screenshot:

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Items scroll from left to right or vice versa and users can use the mouse to cycle through the selections. Clicking on a picture or news item of interest takes a person to the actual website. For the record, I highly recommend Google Chrome for general Web viewing. It has proven, at least to me, to be quite fast (faster and less glitchy than Explorer), although, since the code for many websites is written with the assumption that most people use Explorer, certain features within websites may not work in Chrome. I’ve found such cases to be rare.