{"id":1295,"date":"2009-07-15T00:06:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T07:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:03:08","slug":"cover-flow-and-quick-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/07\/cover-flow-and-quick-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Flow and Quick Look"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes features which first appear to be gimmicks end up being useful. When I&#8217;m sorting through a folder of pictures (for example screenshots for a <a href=\"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/07\/video-archiving\/\">blog post<\/a>), I like to switch over to the &#8220;Cover Flow&#8221; view in OS X&#8217;s Finder and step through the list using the arrow keys. One way you can activate this view is by clicking on the Cover Flow button at the top of your Finder window:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"44\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/coverflow-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1296\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also choose &#8220;as Cover Flow&#8221; from the &#8220;View&#8221; menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I want to take a closer look at an image, I just tap the spacebar, which activates Quick Look. Here&#8217;s a video showing these features in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sorting through screenshots with Cover Flow\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ekaTnrC63M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes features which first appear to be gimmicks end up being useful. When I&#8217;m sorting through a folder of pictures (for example screenshots for a blog post), I like to switch over to the &#8220;Cover Flow&#8221; view in OS X&#8217;s Finder and step through the list using the arrow keys. One way you can activate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/07\/cover-flow-and-quick-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cover Flow and Quick Look<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}