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View Flickr slideshows Cover Flow style
Both sites essentially do the same thing. They let you view Flickr sets using a Apple Cover Flow-style slideshow player. Guckn is probably the easier site to use. Basically you can take any Flickr photoset and replace "flickr" in the URL with "guckn." If you visit Guckn.com you can also see a slideshow with 100 recently uploaded images. That it's. No bells and whistles.
Flickr Cover Flow gives you a few more options. You can find images by photoset ID, user name, or even date. You can also choose whether or not the slideshow should automatically scroll and determine how long to pause on each image.
Neither site offers an embeddable player, which is a little disappointing. It would be nice to have a custom Flickr image viewer that you could embed on your own site. But since these services just present an alternate way to view Flickr slideshows, the novelty wears off pretty quickly and it just seems easier to look at pretty pictures on Flickr's site.
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michael said 8:20PM on 2-07-2008
Cool, but Cover Flow and photos really don't need to go together.
It's nice looking, but your eyes can't help but get distracted by the other images in the line-up and their reflective glares popping out.
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f00fighter said 2:05PM on 2-08-2008
I agree, the lack of an embeddable player is a disappointment.
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Chris said 9:10AM on 2-09-2008
Tiltviewer is much more pleasing IMO. http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/app/
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