Rourke on Technology

PicLens is a plug-in for Safari and Firefox that adds full screen slideshows to a variety of popular online photo sharing sites. This is a great idea. The problem is, it doesn’t work very well.

I installed the plugin and went straight to the photo sharing site that most of my friends use, Smugmug. Piclens doesn’t work with Smugmug because they only support a list of six specific sites or any website using auto-discoverable Media RSS feeds. I couldn’t find any photo sharing site or software package using Media RSS, though all of the sites I checked are publishing some form of RSS feeds with image URLs.

An instant messaging blog posted a preview of the next release of Trillian yesterday. As a longtime user of Trillian, I was interested in what the folks are Cerulean are working on. A single multi-protocol IM client is essential. My friends, like most, aren’t just using one IM network and seem to be spread across AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, and Google Talk. When I chose Trillian it was the only game in town for multi-protocol IM and I was really happy that the folks at Cerulean recognized the need for such a product. Recently, I’ve been a little less enthusiastic.