CoolirisIf you are like me and do any amount of blogging, you are constantly looking for images and videos that visually support the theme of your post.  This usually means searching for images on Google which frankly can be cumbersome and time consuming (sometime I have to click through 10 or more pages to find the image I want.)

Now there is a much faster, cooler and yes, even funner way to find these visual resources.  It’s called Cooliris and it’s a free browser plugin for IE8, FireFox and the latest version of Chrome.  When the plugin is loaded, just enter your image / video search term and it will almost instantly start displaying a seemingly infinite moving wall of results that you can scroll through super fast.  And it pulls them from multiple sources including Google, Bing, Google Video, etc.

You really can’t fully appreciate how this works until you see it demonstrated.  Just go to Cooliris and watch the 20 second video, you will see for yourself…

Okay, even if you don’t search for images that often you will definitely see some jaws drop when you show your office mates just how cool you are when it comes to finding that “just right” image or video.  After all, being cool will never become uncool :0)