It’s been a jungle out there for Safari 3.1 (Mac) users! Until now, you’ve been stuck navigating the latest version of Safari without Cooliris, formerly known as PicLens. You’ve been forced to hack through a tangled underbrush of mediocre, irrelevant media in search of that rare brilliant image or defining video.

Once you’ve seen just how easy Cooliris makes navigating the world’s media, surfing the old way can seem anywhere from dull to downright infuriating! So it’s no surprise that loyal Safari fans have been asking us, often and anxiously, “Where’s our Cooliris?”

We’re proud to finally say:  “RIGHT HERE!”

The prayers of our loyal Apple enthusiasts have finally been answered in Cooliris v1.8.

We now offer full support for Safari 3.1 (Mac), so that enthusiasts of the browser are finally able to view their web media in style! The Safari version of Cooliris offers all of the sleek new features present in other supported browsers: Discovery, Sharing, Developer support, and more! So go wild with Cooliris, and download v1.8 for Safari today!

We’re minimalists at heart here at Cooliris. If we can find a way to make something a little faster, a little simpler, a little more straightforward “ that’s worth doing.

We envisioned a new way to team up with users, so that when you wanted to enable your site to be compatible with Cooliris (formerly known as PicLens), we’d be there to help, from beginning to end.

That’s why we just launched Cooliris for Developers, with the brand new “Quick and Simple” way to enable your webpage. Inside of 10 minutes, Quick and Simple will figure out how to enable your site’s image galleries for easy browsing on PicLens’ 3D Wall, and then build the file that you can post on your site!

In addition to Quick and Simple’s superfast interface, Cooliris for Developers has a detailed guide for Full-Featured PicLens support. Full-Featured gives sites a deeper level of integration by establishing a MediaRSS feed, enabling custom features, and even allowing your videos to be viewable on the 3D Wall.

Cooliris for Developers also offers a Developer Forum where you can ask questions, share your site or blog with other developers, and chat about the latest developments in Cooliris!

Be sure to check out a few of the other nifty items on the Cooliris for Developers: buttons and badges to spread your Cooliris love and let the world know that your site is Cooliris enabled!

Surfing through photos and videos with Cooliris (The Phenomenon Formerly Known as PicLens) has allowed users to keep up with the latest news, entertainment, and albums from family and friends. But until now, there’s been no way for users to share their best finds with their social circle.

Cooliris version 1.8 features a great new addition: Sharing! Create a login in a matter of seconds, and you’ll be able to send photos and videos to anyone you want! In no time, your friends and relatives will find themselves at your newly-made media collection, complete with your commentary!

How does it happen? Just use the sharing button (envelope icon) to create a new message. While surfing the web with Cooliris, drag and drop as many pictures and videos as you like. Then write a few words to your contacts, click Send, and you’re done!

Now Cooliris’s 3D Wall is the fastest way to search, view, AND share media. And that’s not all that has changed in version 1.8.

By popular demand, we’ve also introduced improved and expanded International content on Discover: now Cooliris brings you more of the world than ever before. And our Olympics coverage gives you a front row seat for some of the most heated athletic competitions in history!

Don’t worry that PicLens has a new name “ it’s still the same great product! We’ll be talking about the reasons behind the transition to Cooliris later this week.

There’s never been a better time to use Cooliris. You can download the latest build from www.cooliris.com, see the world with Discover, and start sharing multimedia with friends and family!

We’re pretty enthusiastic about the Olympic Games around here. It’s natural, what with our very own Hongzhe Sun having competed in the trials a few weeks ago.

In honor of the games kicking off in Beijing today (early this morning by California time), we’re launching a brand new Olympic Games channel on the Discover feature in PicLens!

Featuring iconic photographs and intense video footage from every corner of the web, the Olympic Games channel will cover all the latest events, showcasing the Games’ most exciting moments from every angle with frequent updates.

So when you want to see the latest on your favorite athletes, go for the gold. Check out the Discover channel for the Olympic Games inside PicLens.

Many of the most avid and vocal PicLens users are themselves creators of new media: website developers and designers, journalists and graphic artists, and photographers both personal and professional.

These folks frequently have found themselves browsing Getty Images, the world’s largest source of stock photos, for use in creative projects and work.

A fun but sometimes Herculean task, looking for that perfect picture amidst thousands of matches. And as a whole lot of you pointed out, an endeavor that would be made much easier if PicLens was helping out.

So we’ve teamed up with Getty Images to enable their entire catalog – including photos of the upcoming Olympic Games – for PicLens browsing! Now you can fly across an endless stream of beautiful photographs with PicLens in search of the single solitary image that speaks loudest to you.

Just download PicLens and then mouseover images over at GettyImages.com to enjoy.