With the advent of Leopard CoverFlow has been integrated as a main part of the Mac OS X user interface. This elegant way off displaying graphical data is not only rather helpful but also very beautiful to watch. If you’d love to include CoverFlow like animations into your Motion or Final Cut projects without the hazzle of manually aligning / creating all the tweens, CoverFlux comes to your rescue. This free plugin from industrial revolution offers many a option to create stunning coverflow-esque animations in minutes. 

You need, however, to install the free FxFactory2 plugin, in order to use CoverFlux, as CoverFlux is a FxFactory Plugin itself.

Although Time Machine offers a very slick and intuitive interface to your past data, there can be situations, where you’d rather like a much more common list style approach to the changes off a specific file. Tms, a neat commandline tool from FernLightning does just that. It offers a cvs / svn like interface to your Time Machine data. Among the most interesting features is being able to Diff between two versions, being able to list the difference between two snapshops and listing all unique versions of a file.

The tool as well as the corresponding documentation can be found here.

I found this site a long time ago, bookmarked it, forgot about it, and just got remembered of it’s existance by a post on Daring Fireball. One can upload a picture, and they’ll analyze it in order to tell you which font is being used in the picture. Really Good.

Google’s Android, the imho only real competitor to the iPhone SDK, if it comes to the future of mobile computing, has so far been lacking information regarding usability and its interface. However yesterday, on the Google IO Keynote, lots of details were revealed. They demonstrated the Android touchscreen prototype and explained how the main interface, webbrowser and more works. You can find demonstration videos and pictures on slashgear. Out of all “so called” iPhone Competitors, this is in my opinion the first serious solution. The interface seems to be thoughtfuly designed and easily navigable by hand / touch. The Browser has interesting options to ease the information overload on such a small device.

The iPhone has obviously stirred the mobile marked in a big way (judge for example how suddenly every new phone is being compared to the iPhone, sometimes even by the manufacturer himself), competitors haven’t currently been able to offer a serious competitor though. The reason for this is rather simple: The lack of software. A quickly hacked and enhanced interface based on Symbian or Windows Mobile can’t compete with a Plattform like OS X iPhone, which is on the one hand based on years of Mac OS X experience, and on the other hand has been thoughtfully designed over years.

Android however seems to adress these issues. Google has the manpower, will and backing to develop a serious plattform, and smart decisions, like building on Linux, stress the future significance of this plattform. If Apple and Google play their moves right, there might be two major mobile plattforms in the future: OS X iPhone and Android – Symbian, Windows Mobile et al moving more and more out of significance.

Following on the fresh release of Mac OS X 10.5.3, version 6 of the iPhone SDK just arrived. Details regarding changes and additions can be found in TUAW’s liveblog. As we already speculated, there seems to be a strong correlation between the new SDK and 10.5.3, as it is a prequisite for installing.