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I was viewing a web based photo album this morning and it had a link saying “CoolIris can be used on this Gallery ” So I clicked it and found a pretty cool firefox plug-in that turns image, video galleries and even search results into an interactive visual wall.

Overall the interface and interactions are a continued expansion of the itunes tile interface Apple introduced a while a go. But the shift in perspective to give a users an idea of the length of the results is visually “cool” but more importantly it has purpose for the user. Time will tell if I will actually use the “discover” and “shop” functionality provided by the plug-in but I am interested in exploring the use of their “embed wall” flash version (shown below with their sample images)

I also might try and use it when searching for inspirational material for design projects.

Yes, there are a few blog entries missing…if for some strange reason, someone out there loved my last few posts so much that you have the text, please send it my way. My ISP switched servers and I didn’t read the notices close enough…yada yada yada and poof some entries are now MIA. I will be working to recreate those and a few new ones when I get a moment.

But right now, I’m heads down on client work.