The image gallery developed some problems recently when all the thumbnails went missing. I managed to rectify the problem, and at the same time re-visited PicLens, a really cool browser plugin for image galleries such as Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, and of course, Gallery2. If you're not familiar with this browser plugin, visit the PicLens website and try out the demo - it's really nice for image browsing.

To my surprise, the mod to my Gallery2 installation to enable PicLens was rather painless, except for the reading part. For those of you running Gallery2, PicLens will be natively supported in Gallery 2.3. This simple mod is for those that prefer to run the latest stable version of Gallery2 instead of doing nightly Subversions and all that - like me.

To install it, you have to review this thread at the Gallery Forum. I went for the simplest route, i.e. uploaded the picLensRss.php to gallery root directory and added the mod lines for my theme's theme.tpl and that's it. Of course, you must remember to change both files a bit to reflect your site's configurations.

For others... well, make sure you have the PicLens plugin installed in your browser, visit my image gallery and enjoy!