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Seven cool features of Leopard that might get stubborn friends to upgrade

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 16th, 2007)

There are dozens of little niceties in Leopard: like how Front Row now lives on my iBook (sans remote) and allows me to operate the thing as a sort of thin-client media jukebox (courtesy a Mac mini server). Or how Font Book now prints books of your fonts (especially nice for those non-techies). With ...

24 Hours of Leopard: Cover Flow

by Mat Lu (Oct 26th, 2007)

Feature: Cover Flow in the Finder. How it works: Just like album Cover Flow in iTunes, Leopard brings the side-scrolling view to the Finder, allowing your "flip" through your files and see live previews (including paging through mutli-page documents and playing movies). Who will use it: Everyone ...

iPod Classic and Nano get updated to 1.0.2

by Mike Schramm (Oct 7th, 2007)

iTunes has an update for the new iPod Classic and the new Nanos, and while the update doesn't have a description at all, MacRumors sez: Improved CoverFlow Quicker menus And the much awaited video out fix, among a few other interface tweaks Apparently there's a new option that will "Ask" ...

Apple working on pressure sensitive touchscreens

by Mike Schramm (Oct 6th, 2007)

Apple Insider's got the latest on yet another Apple patent application, this one for not just touch sensitive screens, but for pressure sensitive touchscreens. Right now, the iPhone can tell where you're touching it, but not how hard you're pressing on it. The device described in the patent could do ...

High quality album art (from Apple)

by Mat Lu (Sep 14th, 2007)

With Apple emphasizing Cover Flow more and more in the new iPods, etc., the need for good quality album art is ever increasing. I know iTunes is supposed to grab art for songs that are in your library and the iTunes Store, but in my experience it hasn't worked that well. Fortunately, Josh Powell ...

Metaliveblogging the "Beat Goes On" event

by Mike Schramm (Sep 5th, 2007)

The reporters are there. The Apple Store is down. The rumors have been spread. And now it's time for the Apple Event you've all been waiting for. We're not actually there (I'm in my cozy apartment in Chicago's beautiful Wicker Park), but we are watching everyone who is there, and we'll be ...

Rumor: OS X on the iPod in September

by Mike Schramm (Aug 23rd, 2007)

The latest rumor to hit the iPod trail, besides the obviously faked nanos, is that the iPod is headed for an OS X-based system, and that Apple is planning to unify all of their products. This one's actually be floating around for a bit, and at this point, it's almost more of an educated inference ...

Should Apple have used Cover Flow in iPhoto '08?

by David Chartier (Aug 15th, 2007)

TUAW reader o!ivier has posted a mockup to his Flickr account of how he believes the iPhoto '08 Events UI should have been designed. Seeing it as a more natural evolution of what Apple is doing with Mac OS X and their apps (iTunes, Finder in Leopard, etc.), o!ivier believes Apple should have ...

Safari, meet Cover Flow

by Mike Schramm (Jul 28th, 2007)

I'm not sure why eye candy gets such a bad reputation-- we all need a little beauty in our lives, and no UI designer should ever argue that a "cool!" factor is a bad thing to have, when you've already hit all the other bases. Cover Flow is a perfect example. When people made their wishlists before ...

CoverFlow, "Get all" podcasts in iTunes 7.3.1

by Mike Schramm (Jul 20th, 2007)

A reader of ours sends along (thanks!) two cool new podcasting features in iTunes 7.3.1 that I hadn't noticed yet. First and foremost, podcasts are now browseable with CoverFlow, which is awesome (and probably points to an eventual implementation of CoverFlow on the iPod, if speculation is your ...

The Big iPhone Zapruder #3: Music, Cover Flow, Video and more

by David Chartier (Jun 23rd, 2007)

And the exhaustive analysis of Apple's iPhone Guided Tour continues, this time with the third installment and photo gallery covering some of the interesting new features we found in the iPod app. This is of course one of the iPhone's key components, and Apple has really made some great improvements ...

Hello Tomorrow: The 300+ new features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

by David Chartier (Jun 11th, 2007)

While Steve Jobs introduced ten major features coming in Mac OS X Leopard at last year's WWDC, the entire list of new features has finally been unveiled. We already knew about some of the enhancements coming in apps like Mail and the all-new Spaces and Time Machine, but Jobs today highlighted ...

Swap full-screen Cover Flow and video in iTunes

by David Chartier (Apr 4th, 2007)

Here comes the community at Mac OS X Hints with yet another cool trick which, in this case, should help us waste just a little more time in iTunes 7.1.1. I specify that latest version because this hint concerns Cover Flow's new found ability to run in full-screen mode: as it turns out, you can ...

Coverscout 2.3

by Scott McNulty (Nov 29th, 2006)

Coverflow is a really great incentive to get album art for all your tracks in iTunes 7, but surely you don't want to do that manually. Sure, iTunes can download cover art from the iTunes Store, but what if some of your music isn't on the iTunes Store? Enter Coverscout, which was just bumped up to ...

CoverFlow: I knew that looked familiar

by Dave Caolo (Sep 12th, 2006)

When we first looked at CoverFlow a little more than a year ago, we were impressed: "It really is nice to look at, I have to say, and flipping through albums is fun...I'm certainly eager to watch this application develop." It seems that Cupertino was also smitten, as the message on CoverFlow's ...