In response to your feedback, we’ve added an option to turn the Cooliris hover icon on and off. We believe creating a positive experience for every user includes listening to your suggestions. Thank you to everyone who made this a top customization request!

So how do you get to the hover icon option? First, open Cooliris in Firefox or Safari and select the preferences icon in the lower right (it looks like a small gear). Unfortunately, this feature is not available for Chrome at this time. We hope to have it ready soon!

You will now see the preferences tab with access to all of Cooliris’ customization options. The check box for the hover icon is under wall settings.

Make sure to save your settings and enjoy your customized Cooliris experience!

Hate your job? Want to drink at work and smoke indoors, everyday?

Live life vicariously through the eyes of dashing Don Draper on the hit AMC series, Mad Men. Our new featured channel, Mad Men Mania showcases the incredible 60’s lifestyle of advertising executives; red lipstick, elaborate undergarments, cigarettes, booze, sex and drama. (Don’t worry, they smoke herbal cigarettes on the set!)

Unfortunately while we can’t all be Don Draper, we can at least learn from the legend. In four easy steps Don teaches you how pick up women.

If you are obsessed with the show as many are, you can go to extreme lengths and Mad Men Yourself creating your very own Mad Men avatar. You can even start collecting Mad Men Barbie dolls!

Our channel features interviews, photos, and some entertaining spoofs. Being the feminist that I am, one of my favorites is Mad Women, reversing the blatant sexism portrayed on the show.

Enjoy !

It’s not basketball season yet, but this new feature “No Easy Buckets” should be packed with enough excitement to last you until the season kicks off again, or at least get you through the rest of this hump day.

The best moment in basketball is when a player explodes into the lane giving the defender  a split second to make a simple decision: Get up or get out of the way. The most elite defenders in basketball can rise to the occasion, get a hand on the ball and emphatically reject the shot. Less lucky defenders will find themselves in the bottom corner of an NBA poster, ducking for cover while they get dunked on.

This playlist is a compilation of the best and worst dunks and blocks  inspired by this old Mountain Dew commercial.

Some ballers are so notorious for throwing down on opponents that it was impossible to single out their best dunks, and we used top 10 videos instead (Jordan, Kemp, Wilkins). As you will see in the playlist, the defense is not always the biggest impediment to getting the ball through the cylinder: in one video the rim is torn down with a dunk and in another gravity just seems to get in the way of the player. Hopefully, you enjoy 36 of the most incredible moments in basketball history.

We have a lot of sports fans here at Cooliris and we look forward to rolling out much more  content for all you sports fans out there in our featured channels!

PS Congrats to Scottie Pippen who was recently inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame, probably all because of this dunk.

TGIF! We have a new featured channel that will make you want to put on your dancing shoes (and/or stunna shades) and get up and out ! Party Playlist features some of the latest chart climbers, and a couple of older catchy beats.

One of my favorites on the playlist is the Bay Area hit – “Teach Me How To Dougie.” There is even an official Teach Me How To Dougie Contest where you can create a video of yourself dougie-ing and send it in, or you could just sit back, watch and rate the contest entries. Some of the videos are hysterical, some hideous.

Get the “Dougie Fever !”

OH P.S Wyclef Jean is officially running for President of Haiti. Check him out in The Black Eyed Peas songs on the Party Playlist.

Thank you everyone for downloading and using Discover for iPad!

In the week since Discover was launched, we’ve hit 150,000 downloads of the app!

And what’s more – we’re in the the New and Noteworthy section in the App Store. Thanks Apple!

We can’t say enough how immensely grateful we are to all the users who have helped make Discover such a success. Please help us continue to improve the app by emailing your feedback to discover@cooliris.com. Don’t forget to also rate us in the App Store!