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Designer Li Jianye’s real-life Cover Flow shelf is just like the actual Cover Flow, except for the fact that it can’t move, only holds five albums and doesn’t let you play music.
Mgestyk’s system-wide camera control system looks fun, but FluidTunes, a simple program that lets your toss around your iTunes library via your iSight, has two important things that it doesn’t: free-ness and out-now-ness.
The brand spankin’ new Flowberry theme is full of icons for the Blackberry owner who really wants to own an Apple product, like the iPhone or MacBook Pro, but can’t quite commit. As you’ll see from the video, there’s a pseudo Cover Flow quality to the latest effort from bplay, but that’s about it. And, just like the iTunes Store and other Apple products, the theme’s home screen icons are locked in, giving you that DRM feeling without actually having to deal with DRM.
Coverflow isn’t my favourite feature of OS X, but I have to admit it is neat, but that’s about it. There are more efficient ways to organise pretty much any data you can think of, but this idea of applying the technology to your iPhone’s Contacts list intrigues me. Nothing fancy here, it would likely be a piece of cake for Apple to throw together, and I’m a little mystified as to why it hasn’t yet. It wouldn’t be the first time photo browsing for contacts has been used, but it would be the coolest. And yes, I really have Kevin Rose’s contact info on my iPhone, and no, he doesn’t know about it. AU: Kudos to Jason over at TechAU for the concept – nice work mate
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CoverFlow may be only semi-useful on your Mac, but imagine what it would look like on a Windows Mobile phone. Actually useful! The Face Contact plugin, which costs US$14.95, displays all your contact photos in a CoverFlow-esque way in your home screen, letting you flip between people and even directly dial, text or send emails from their photo. Cool for sure, but is it worth US$15? Probably not. Plus, are all your contacts actually good looking enough that you’d want to stare at them every time you pull out your phone? [Cnetx via Just Another Mobile Monday via PhoneMag]
