Hey fans! Cooliris has teamed up with Conduit to bring you a special Cooliris toolbar that gives you quick access to channels, searches, Favorites, and local photos in Cooliris!

You can customize which Cooliris shortcuts you want on to appear on this toolbar by using the Toolbar Options menu. To access the Preferences menu, click on the arrow next to the Cooliris logo to get the drop-down menu and select toolbar options. From there, you can add the Favorites button to access your saved Favorites from the toolbar or add the My Computer shortcut to get to your local photos fast.

The Cooliris toolbar is optimized for US residents. International users can still download the toolbar, but the channel drop-down links will not work for them (this is due to channel content restrictions in different countries). However, if you’re an international user, you can customize the toolbar and take out any of the channel-specific shortcuts so that only the available features that work for you show up. The features that work for international users are the Home, Featured, Favorites, and My Computer shortcuts, as well as the Cooliris search bar.

This toolbar is available for Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer, but is not yet available for Chrome.

We hope the new Cooliris toolbar makes your browsing experience faster and more enjoyable! Get it here now!

Hot off the press this week, CoolPreviews v3.0 for Firefox introduces a ton of new features for browsing faster. What’s really hip is its interactive display of the Cooliris Wall within the preview window.

To understand how it all works, let’s first do a quick recap on CoolPreviews. With over 9 million downloads to date, this sweet little addon is all about browsing faster. You can preview links on just about any website, including Google, all without leaving your current page or tab. Simply mouseover a link, and a separate preview window appears to show the content.

Pretty slick, eh? No surprise CoolPreviews is a five-star favorite on the Mozilla Addons site.

Now, about that Cooliris Wall mashup . . .

Say, you want to search the Web to see everything about Avatar, the new James Cameron movie. You query “avatar” in Google web search as usual. You then use CoolPreviews to browse the official Avatar movie site, without even leaving your Google results page. To see what Wikipedia says about Avatar, you just mouseover that link, too.

But what if you want to see a lot more related images and videos of Avatar? No problem. Simply click the “Cooliris” button in the built-in search bar of CoolPreviews. Literally thousands of multimedia results will then display on the infinite Cooliris Wall within the CoolPreviews frame. (Press F8 on PC or Alt+Esc on Mac to hide the Cooliris chrome for a bigger picture.)

So things go smoothly, you’ll need the latest versions of both Firefox addons: That’s version 3.0+ for CoolPreviews and 1.11.6+ for Cooliris.

With Cooliris integrated, CoolPreviews is the fastest and ultimate way to browse.

Google’s highly anticipated Nexus One smartphone is here! And it’s packaged with an innovative new way to browse media: Gallery, a smooth and intuitive application for photo and video navigation developed by Cooliris.

Managing your media on a mobile phone can be a drag – we’re accustomed to frequently taking photos and videos on the go, but finding those hallmark moments again can be a time-consuming process. The Gallery reinvents mobile media with the streamlined and visually stunning media interface that you’ve come to expect from Cooliris.

As the first native mobile application to simplify browsing, sharing, and editing media, Gallery is designed for quick and easy photo and video scanning. Check out our video below to see features like these:

• You can sort your media into digital stacks by date, time, and even location (if geotagging is enabled), making it easy to find photos by when and where you took them.
• Scroll quickly by date, view your photos in automated slideshows, and zoom into any photo.
• Edit photos right on the Nexus One.
• Share photos by text message, Bluetooth, Gmail, or Picasa.
• The Gallery can sync with Picasa albums, allowing users to dynamically download existing albums from their desktops or Picasa, or upload new material to Picasa albums from their Nexus One.

The Gallery is native to (and currently exclusive to) the Nexus One, but its development gave our engineers an exciting look into the extensive capabilities of the Android platform’s new 2.1 OS. “Cooliris delivers products and experiences that make the web more exciting, cool and useful for consumers,” said Andy Rubin, Google’s Vice President. “The Gallery, developed by Cooliris, is a perfect example of how the Android platform can be leveraged to create differentiated experiences on smartphones and other devices.”

Cooliris became a member of the Open Handset Alliance during development of the Gallery, joining other major technology and mobile companies who aim to offer consumers a richer and minimally expensive experience on the Android platform.

For those of you at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this week, we’ll be there from the 6^th to the 9^th. If you’d like to set up a meeting with us, feel free to email jenny@cooliris.com.

Get ready for a whole new mobile media experience: it’s never been easier to share and manage your photos and videos than it is on the brand new Nexus One. www.cooliris.com/androidgallery

Press Release

Hope everyone is having a pleasant beginning of the week! We have two new updates for you:

Cooliris version 1.11.6 has been released for Internet Explorer and Safari users. Support for Firefox 3.6 beta is coming soon!

Also, on an even more exciting note, Cooliris Express now includes Facebook as one of the content sources, meaning you can put up your Facebook photos on a Cooliris Wall! Go ahead and try making a Wall of your Facebook photos and post them to Facebook for a cool way of showing off a new album, or post it to your blog or Twitter. It’s super easy and literally takes only seconds!

Hope you enjoy these new enhancements!

Only a few weeks left until the holidays are over! Have you sent your holiday cards yet? We’ve just made it even easier for you to send a Cooliris Holiday Card, even if you don’t have your own holiday photos to include in the card.

Use our sample holiday photo set to send a festive card to your friends and family. These photos display on default when you access the Holiday Card Maker. You can still customize your photo set by entering your Flickr or Picasa username, if you have one.

Also, the National Breast Cancer Foundation is a recent addition to the Cooliris Holiday Card. Select their theme to support this cause and encourage donations to the NBCF this holiday season!

Happy Holidays!