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SlipCover helps make case icons for your media

Here's a cool app we haven't mentioned yet here on TUAW -- SlipCover is an app that will help you put together some beautiful icons for your Mac's media files, from DVDs to video games or anything else that needs a cool looking icon. The app itself revolves around "case" files, which are basically templates like the Blu-ray, PS3, and Xbox 360 branding on their DVD cases, to which you can then drag and drop other media on to (for example, put a Watchmen movie poster on a Blu-ray "case," and you've got an icon that looks exactly like a Blu-ray version of the DVD), and then your media files on there to apply the icon automatically. No more hunting around through file names or weird previews of your media -- you can just browse through a Delicious Library-style set of thumbnails to find whatever you want to watch.

Now, you may say that you just get all your media from iTunes, and that those come with thumbnails and covers already, and that's a fair point. But for those of us who obtain media from all over the place, it's nice to have a way to make it look all professional and purty. Slipcover is a free download over on their website.

[via Lifehacker]

Here's a cool app we haven't mentioned yet here on TUAW -- SlipCover is an app that will help you put together some beautiful icons for...
 

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Moose

Where are folks getting their DVD cover art?

January 18 2010 at 8:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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PowerHouse

I get mine here: http://www.cdcovers.cc/

January 18 2010 at 9:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
William Hook

Maybe I'm just being anal here, but..."you've got an icon that looks exactly like a Blu-ray version of the DVD"

Blu-ray isn't a "version" of DVD, it's a totally different format. They share the same disc, sure, but DVD isn't a "version" of CDs. I think "like a Blu-ray version of the movie" would fit better. :)

January 18 2010 at 6:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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FantomRedux

I think this might just have been based on the assumption that most people who have the movie on their computer would have ripped it from a DVD, especially on a Mac considering the lack of Blu-Ray. Of course, that's also assuming Mike is giving people the benefit of the doubt that they aren't pirating all their movies.

Alternatively you could be right and it was just a bad choice of words. Either or really.

January 18 2010 at 7:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

All over the place: A phrase which here means "Piratebay and Demonoid.

January 18 2010 at 5:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Keith Smith

Wow, that's mighty judgmental of you. Not all of us HTPC folk are pirates.

January 18 2010 at 6:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tim

It's great to see people/companies taking the Mac HTPC into their own hands. After lack of support from Apple, this is becoming the only way to enjoy expanding your setup. It's pushed me to start developing Mac Apps, which hopefully I can share soon as well.

January 18 2010 at 5:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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