Cover Flow

A cool article courtesy of ER:

Think of the way you can flip thru your music and video and add that to searchmash –Google’s current experiment.

Google labs beta

http://www.searchmash.com/flash/search/#home

From Wikipedia:

Cover Flow is a three-dimensional graphical user interface included with iTunes, the Macintosh Finder, and other Apple Inc. products for visually rummaging through files and digital media libraries via cover artwork.

CoverFlow was invented by artist Andrew Coulter Enright^[1] and originally implemented by an independent Macintosh developer, Jonathan del Strother.

CoverFlow was purchased by Apple Inc. in 2006, and its technology was integrated into its flagship jukebox application, iTunes 7.0, which was released on September 12, 2006.^[2]. The name was also changed to “Cover Flow”. The last release of Steel Skies’ stand-alone application, version RC1.2, was released the day prior, September 11, 2006. It was freely distributed for that day only, but remains available for download from MacUpdate. On January 9, 2007, Apple announced that the iPhone would incorporate Cover Flow technology. During the WWDC Keynote on June 11, 2007, Steve Jobs announced that Cover Flow would be added as a view option in Leopard’s Finder. On September 5, 2007 Apple announced that Cover Flow would be utilized in the third generation iPod nano as well as the new iPod classic and iPod touch models.

The Cover Flow interface has also been implemented on other operating systems (when using the X Window System) in the form of the Cover mode of the Shift Switcher plugin of Compiz-Fusion^[3]. It allows the user to use a Cover-Flow-like animation to switch between open applications.