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iShelf Brings Cover Flow to Real Life, Makes Profound Statement About Something or Other

John Herrman — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:59:12 +0000

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.

In other worlds, it’s better to view the iShelf as an artistic statement about digital music or interface usability, or something, because that’s pretty much what it is. It’s still in concept limbo at the moment, but even if it doesn’t ever see production the concept is good—it wouldn’t be that hard to make your own iShelf with room for seven, nine, or—YES—eleven(ELEVEN!) albums. Or you could just not worry about it. [Yanko via Crave]

FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library

John Herrman — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:56:51 +0000

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.

Available now as a free universal binary, FluidTunes is a simple creature; despite what looks to be a solid gesture recognition engine, it can only control iTunes, and only in a specific Coverflow mode. Still, if all you want to do is indulge your moderately lame futuristic interface fantasy for a few minutes, well, FluidTunes can probably grant you that. [Cult of Mac]

Blackberry Flowberry Theme is for Closet Mac Admirers Who Can’t Pull the Trigger

Jack Loftus — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0000

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.

Bplay says Flowberry is compatible with all device software, but works best with version 4.3 or higher. The unchangeable home screen icons are: Messages, Calendar, Address Book, Media, SMS/MMS, BlackBerry Messenger, MemoPad, and Keyboard Lock [Bplay via Crackberry]

Contacts With Coverflow Concept Kind Of Cool

Matt Hickey — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:00:52 +0000

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

[TechAu]

Windows Mobile Face Contact Plugin Adds CoverFlow Contacts

Jason Chen — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:40:00 +0000

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]