Cooliris is a plugin that displays images from Google, Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, from your PC hard drive etc as a 3D wall. You can effortlessly scroll through the images and videos. Once installed, you can launch Cooliris from the toolbar in the browser window or my moving the mouse over the image if the image is from one of the supported sites.
Cooliris now supports Linux. According to the Cooliris blog, Cooliris now has a linux version that is shipping with 1.10 release. Here are the system requirements:
- A recent Linux distribution.
- Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 10, OpenSuse 11 should work.
- Hardware-accelerated graphics. Without hardware acceleration, Cooliris should still run, but will be unusably slow.
- NVidia cards with proprietary drivers (version 173 and above) have been tested and function well
- ATI cards have been tested and work with the latest fglrx driver
- Intel integrated cards function but with issues
- To test hardware acceleration, run “glxgears” in full screen and see if it runs smoothly
- Firefox 3
- Flash 10 or higher. If you’re using a 64-bit Linux, it is recommended that you install a pre-release version of 64-bit Flash.
I wanted to check the Linux file. I was using a Windows machine, so when I clicked “To see all products, click here” in the download section, I could see only Windows and Mac versions. I couldn’t find the Linux one. CoolPreviews has a Linux version. I have to try it from a Linux machine and see if it works.
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