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Use Gestures to Control iTunes with Fluid Tunes

12:56 am, December 2nd, 2008, Lonnie Lazar

Fluid Tunes is a pretty cool free app from Majic Jungle Software that uses your computer’s camera to interpret movements of your head, hands or feet, letting you browse, play or pause your music in iTunes without touching your keyboard or mouse. It works on OS X 4.11 and higher and is a tiny (788K) universal binary.

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    [...] Available now as a free universal binary, FluidTunes is a simple creature; despite what looks to be a solid gesture recognition engine, it can only control iTunes, and only in a specific Coverflow mode. Still, if all you want to do is indulge your moderately lame futuristic interface fantasy for a few minutes, well, FluidTunes can probably grant you that. [Cult of Mac] [...]

    FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library [Gestures] | Ishan Amin's Blog, on December 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 am

    [...] Available now as a free universal binary, FluidTunes is a simple creature; despite what looks to be a solid gesture recognition engine, it can only control iTunes, and only in a specific Coverflow mode. Still, if all you want to do is indulge your moderately lame futuristic interface fantasy for a few minutes, well, FluidTunes can probably grant you that. [Cult of Mac] [...]

    FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library [Gestures] | Free speech web hosting, on December 2nd, 2008 at 3:41 am

    Not working too well here. Might be because I don’t have enough light on me where I’m sitting.
    And just to be nitpicking, it’s 1,2 MB – not 788KB :)

    Kolind, on December 2nd, 2008 at 6:02 am

    [...] mais FluidTunes a le mérite de vous en proposer un avant-goût aussi gratuit qu’immédiat. [Cult of Mac] swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf”, “vvq493565afb3517″, “400″, “300″, “9″, [...]

    Fluidtunes vous invite à feuilleter le catalogue d’iTunes - Gizmodo - Tant d'amour pour ces fabuleux nouveaux gadgets, c'est surnaturel., on December 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 am

    [...] Available now as a free universal binary, FluidTunes is a simple creature; despite what looks to be a solid gesture recognition engine, it can only control iTunes, and only in a specific Coverflow mode. Still, if all you want to do is indulge your moderately lame futuristic interface fantasy for a few minutes, well, FluidTunes can probably grant you that. [Cult of Mac] [...]

    iModZone » Blog Archive » FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library, on December 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    As an extremely avid user of the kick ass xGestures, I’m excited to see this stuff go forward on the Mac platform. With Fluid, I’m finding I’m getting lots of false positives with the controls. I’m perfectly willing to even paint one of my fingernails white for better tracking, but I don’t see any tolerance options with Fluid (yet).

    CowTip:

    Here’s the future (I have the app, but it crashes in Leopard dammit)
    http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11525/2/iGesture.mov

    Here’s udder info:
    http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/28814DD4-ADDD-4807-A3CE-69766A9383B2.html

    I’m thinking we need to take this dude hostage and pull him away from Microsoft:
    http://gizmodo.com/5080514/diy-hand-gesture-multi+touch-using-a-webcam-and-magic

    Cowicide, on December 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    http://www.geeklife.it/2008/12/02/controlla-itunes-con-il-movimento-delle-mani-con-fluidtunes-mac-download/

    geeklife, on December 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 am

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