Cooliris for iPhone just got real personal. With our latest version, we’re bringing you a whole new world of interactivity and customizability. Stay connected to your personal content: your Cooliris Favorites, custom Media RSS feeds, Flickr/Picasa account access, and even your own Twitter account!

From the ground up, Cooliris for iPhone offers a fresh new experience: we’ve significantly increased the speed of image loading on the Wall so you can fly through your search just as if you’re on your desktop. The user interface has a great new look filled with vibrant, bold thumbnails. And our handy drop-down menu makes navigating all of the fantastic new features a breeze.

But let’s really get into what makes Cooliris for iPhone the mobile portal to YOUR personal webspace.

Mobile Favorites
You’re now fully synced up with the Favorites you made on your web client. View, Add, and Remove media from Cooliris whether you’re at home or on the move.

Custom Media RSS Feeds
Add and Save Media RSS feeds right to your Wall! Access Cooliris-enabled sites and anywhere that incorporates Media RSS.

Twitter Integration
When you’re on the go, there’s always that ridiculous incident or spur-of-the-moment update you want to share with your friends. That’s what Tweeting is for! And now you can post Tweets directly from your mobile Wall, thanks to our new full Twitter integration.

Flickr & Picasa Access
Now you can easily access any public Flickr or Picasa account easily using your username, email address or NSID!

Improved Preferences Customization
Now you can fully control your Cooliris preferences, from saving history to filtering options for Google searches.

Cooliris for iPhone transitions your iPhone into a fully functional mobile media center, allowing you to explore and showcase the corners of the web that matter the most to you. Stay social, stay connected, and stay on top of the latest and greatest that internet media has to offer! Be sure to download Cooliris for iPhone v1.4 from the App Store and take it out on the town!

The Cooliris iPhone app has been getting a lot of attention lately “ both MacWorld and Mashable have called it one of the top productivity tools for the iPhone!

Today, with the release of Cooliris for iPhone version 1.3, we’ve added a number of performance improvements, from graphics to usability, making the browsing experience even better.

Version 1.3’s biggest new feature is the addition of the “My Photos” tab, where you can search any public account in Flickr and Picasa, add as many accounts as you would like, then view the albums in Cooliris.There are a number of cool ways to enjoy the My Photos feature:

-         Show off your public Flickr or Picasa photos on the wall

-         Use the send function to email your pictures to your friends while you’re on the go

-         Save pictures from a friend’s album to your iPhone

-         Set pictures from your Flickr and Picasa albums as your iPhone wallpaper

So whether you’re a photo aficionado or just want a smoother, richer Cooliris experience on your iPhone, we hope you enjoy the new version 1.3. To update to this version, just download it here or search for Cooliris in the iTunes App store straight from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

We’re psyched  to announce that the iTunes Store has just released our new Cooliris for iPhone, version 1.2, which brings in a whole new world of integrated easy-to-use Web support.

The biggest addition is video support. Version 1.2 is now offers a slick and easy way to perform YouTube searches on your iPhone. With the recent announcement that YouTube will soon feature full-length movies, Cooliris brings you the fun of theater-hopping anywhere you go!

Version 1.2 also introduces a unique “scanner effect”, allowing you to save images from your Cooliris Wall to the iPhone’s local camera roll. Cooliris becomes a great way to personalize your phone, turning everything from Flickr family photos to inventive artwork from DeviantArt into iPhone wallpaper.

There are new Discover channels as well, bringing Cooliris for the iPhone closer to its browser extension counterpart. Entertainment News brings you the latest from E! blogs, Perez Hilton, the Insider, ET and more. The Music channel offers streaming music videos from your favorite artists. Wallpaper brings you great new backgrounds for your iPhone, and Cool Videos has a selection of some of the most popular new videos to grace the web.

Last but certainly not least, our new release also boasts some subtler under-the-hood improvements as well, with a cleaner, faster UI that’s sure to have you surfing media more quickly than you ever have before!

With well over 100,000 downloads, the app’s continuing to gain momentum: It’s already in the Top 10 most popular Entertainment apps and an Apple staff favorite! So if you haven’t already, now’s the best time to download Cooliris for the iPhone.

Well, you certainly have spoken loud and clear! Who would have thought we would have been in the top ten apps for Entertainment and seen over 250,000 downloads of Cooliris for iPhone in the first few weeks?

And, not only have you downloaded the app, you’ve given us a huge amount of feedback on additional new features you’s like to see. We value all of your feedback so much and have incorporated a lot of what you’ve asked for in our upcoming release. . . . Video, do I hear video?

We’ll be submitting a new release to Apple later today and have our fingers crossed that it will be in the app store soon. We’ll be sure to post when it’s live in the store!

Thanks so much, everyone.  And Stay iTuned!

We’re happy to say that Cooliris for iPhone is back in the iTunes Store! To learn more about the app, see our previous blog article or our website.

If you’ve been following the goings on of Cooliris for iPhone for the last few days, you know about the issue with Apple’s firmware v.2.1, which affected a small number of applications during the uninstall process. Fortunately, our engineers were able to figure out a workaround quickly and we were able to submit a new version to Apple. And, Apple was kind enough to expedite the approval process.

So go download the app now and let us know what you think of it. We’re so sorry for the recent confusion and sincerely hope you enjoy Cooliris for iPhone.

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How to Uninstall the Previous Version

If you already have our previous version released a few days ago and want to uninstall it, please read the following instructions carefully.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to a bug in Apple’s firmware v2.1, we recommend you do NOT delete the old Cooliris icon show below in the “Applications” section of the “Library” at this time. You will get a warning message every time you try to sync, unless you keep the old icon in your library. If you would like to be alerted when Apple has fixed this issue in its firmware, please email us at feedback@cooliris.com.

1. On the iPhone, find the Cooliris app with the icon shown to the left. Note this logo that does NOT have the glow affect (like our new version does).
2. Press and hold the icon, and then click the ‘X’.
3. When prompted,  hit the “Delete” button.
4. Do NOT delete the icon from the Applications section of the Library.