Power up your photos with PicLens

Digital photos are one of the lifebloods of the Internet, and regular newsletter readers know that I'm always looking for new ways to manage my pictures and show them off to friends and family.

Users who are accustomed to the new iPhone/iPod method of "swiping" their way through photo albums and other jazzy Web 2.0 forms of navigation should take a look at PicLens, a collection of photo slide show tools that let users browse or create 3D slide shows that can include photos and video.

The PicLens browser add-ons--for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox 3--highlight the image content of Web sites to let users whip back and forth through 3D galleries using mouse gestures instead of clicks. They also recently added support for Amazon and YouTube for 3D video galleries.

Even cooler, two free tools let you create your own digital photo slide shows for the Web. With PicLens Publisher, you simply select the photos you want to use, and the tool creates all the HTML and components you need to upload to your site. The PicLens Plugin for WordPress lets bloggers using the popular publishing platform easily add integrated, immersive slide shows.

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