OK, this week I want to give a good tip concerning research.

When finding great pictures to use as resources for a project, you often run into the situation of clicking through 1000's of images. The tool I have for you today is a plug-in for your browser, whether it be IE (if you have been living under a rock, Firefox is the better solution) or Firefox . This plug-in will grab all the photos for a particular album and stack them in a poster wall of sorts.

Let's demonstrate, shall we?

Take the "Old Commercial Blocks" group on Flickr. This album has a ton of great pictures in it. You can go through each picture, taking all day to do something you'd prefer to scroll through.

Well, when you have the CoolIris plugin installed, you can now reach some major improvements in graphical representation of pictures. Look for a button in the lower corner of the picture, as shown to the left.

Click it...

Then behold all the glory technology could throw at you, COOLIRIS...