Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens)

In search of images that will add visual interest to your work?
Interested in visual researching?
Cooliris can help.
This Firefox add-on is easy (and fun) to use. Once installed,
images are presented as a 3D wall that you can effortlessly zip along.
Just click on the image to bring it to the fore and zoom in.
Each picture has a small globe icon which you can click on to
jump to its corresponding website.You can easily share the images by clicking the envelope icon which allows you to email them to others. Cooliris is a great time saver as it taps into the image resources of many popular websites and search engines including Google, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, deviantArt, Photobucket, and Yahoo.

Firefox can be downloaded free from: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.
The Cooliris add-on can then be installed from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=cooliris&cat=all .

Optimizing Online Research--Browsers

We wanted to share a few tips to improve your online research experience.

• Use Internet Explorer (IE) or Firefox browser. These two are the most stable and compatible with library research databases. If you don't have Firefox, it is a free download on the Web at http://www.mozilla.com.
• Take advantage of your Links bar (IE) /Bookmarks Toolbar Folder (Firefox). This gives you quick access to your favorite websites. You can even create folders for your links on the toolbar.

• Be sure you have Adobe Reader on your computer. This free download is the best pdf reader to use. Although Macs have a reader called Preview, we have found that Adobe Reader has better results. Just go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
• Always talk to a librarian for help with your particular situation. We spend all our time finding better ways to do research and we love to share our discoveries.