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I’ve just picked up the scent of a really cool looking browser add on that pulls web content from pages into a neat coverflow style visual interface. At present, it only works with non-beta versions of Safari, Firefox and Explorer.

You can use it on supported sites only, but with the list growing by day and already counting sites such as Youtube, Flickr and Current in the mix, it’s already a ripe tool for an alternative way to browse and discover website content. Needless to say, it works best with images and videos, since it is primarily a visual interface.

There doesn’t seem to be a way to use it completely in-browser yet, as it auto-defauts to full screen mode. That’s not such a problem right now, as most people will probably only use this as an experiment, and will as a result play with it for a time and then leave it be.

What I think is most interesting about this kind of app is that the kind of interface it has could be adopted to many other mediums. If you’ve tried it already, then you’ll probably agree with me that viewing your RSS feeds in such an interface would greatly advance the experience tenfold. It’s easy to say that, but even if you take regular written content out of the mix, if you subscribe to those sites that push out tons of visual posts such as we love typography or FFFFOUND! then you’ll immediately see the possible benefits of a non-typical interface.

The ‘discovery’ feature of the app also allows you to browse through aggregated web content on a number of topics, and it’s well worth having a fiddle with it. You can also choose from shopping or even browse through files on your machine. For example you can enter ’shopping’ and use the inbuilt search to visually browse Amazon. That, in addition to browsing your own files as mentioned, is completely complimented by a favorites section too.

Well, if I haven’t rambled enough just go and try it out http://www.cooliris.com/ . Did I mention it also works in the iPhone? and that there’s a freaking cool Wordpress Plugin too? These guys have the corners covered, I’ll give them that tip of the hat.

What say you?

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