Cover Flow View
Cover Flow is a visual display that Apple stole from its own iTunes software, where Cover Flow simulates the flipping “pages” of a jukebox, or the albums in a record-store bin (Figure 2-16). There you can flip through your music collection, marveling as the CD covers flip over in 3D space while you browse.
Figure 2-16. The top half of a Cover Flow window is an interactive, scrolling “record bin” full of your own stuff. It’s especially useful for photos, PDF files, Office documents, and text documents. When a PDF or presentation document comes up here, you can click the arrow buttons to page through it; for a movie, click the little 
button to play the video, right in place.
The idea is the same in OS X, except that now it’s not album covers you’re flipping; it’s gigantic file and folder icons.
To fire up Cover Flow, open a window. Then click the Cover Flow button (
) in the toolbar. Or choose View→as Cover Flow, or press ⌘-4.
Now the window splits. On the bottom: a traditional list view, complete with sortable, arrangeable columns, exactly as described previously. On the top: the gleaming, reflective-black Cover Flow display. Your primary interest here is the scroll bar. As ...
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