Tons of Great Apps to make your ipod better

CantoPod: get favorite lyrics on your iPod (with over 200.000 lyrics to choose from)

Dictionary: hook up your ipod with dictionary that includes over 40,000 definitions and pronunciation guide ($9.95)

Encyclopodia: this incredible tool can get wikipedia.org into your iPod, if you’re one of those who can’t imagine web without wikipedia defintely check it out

GoogleGet: weather+news combo tool. When it comes to news, best option would be to have something like RSS reader that can convert feeds into iPod readable format, however I wasn’t able to find any free tool for that, what I got is Igadget which will cost you ($15). Post it in comments in case you know about any other alternative

iDirectionz: store driving directions on your iPod

iPodGym: turn iPod into your gym advisor; iPodGym is a website where you can find over 80 exercise videos (incl. descriptions) all of which can adopted to the iPod format.

iPodwizard: windows program that let’s you change fonts, graphics and text on you iPod

Ipod-notes | Ipod-ebook-creator: these 2 nifty tools let you easily create iPod compatible ebooks from regular text files. Actually, Ipod-notes goes even further by letting you create ebook from a webpage, check it out. In case you need some free ebooks to start with, drop by Project Gutenberg Library

piPod – guide to the best pizzerias in the five boroughs of NYC

Senuti (Mac OSX): this application syncs files off your iPod and sends them directly to your iTunes library. It can also play songs directly off iPod

Weather for Me: downloads weather forecasts from Myforecast.com and puts it on your iPod

Ipodlinks: variety of icons and wallpapers

Ipodwizard: ipod themes

Video Converters

videora iPod Converter: free video conversion application, you may use it to convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into iPod compatible format

Media-Convert: web based media converter

HandBrake: Rip DVD movies to your iPod. (MacOS X, Linux and soon Windows)

Run Your Own Movie, Book, Music Or Games Rental Service With Delicious Library

For USD$40, you can start your own rental business with Delicious Monster’s Delicious Library app. Although, USD$40 may sound like much at first, but after finding out the priceless features that ship with this cataloging app, you’ll realise that its well worth every penny.

Enabling Tabbed Browsing In Safari

Tabbed browsing has now pretty much become a standard user Internet browsing experience these days. Other than Apple’s Safari, most browsers support similar versions of tabbed browsing — Mozilla Firefox.

For those of you who’re still scratching your nogg’ins, tabbed browsing is the ability for an Internet browser to open multiple Web pages in a single Web browser. To keep things in order, most Web browsers present the multiple Web pages as tabs on the browser’s tool bar (see: Diagram 1.0). Not only does this save precious screen real estate but also enhances the user experience when it comes to Web research.

OS X Software: Quicksilver

 

For as long as I’ve been using OS X, LaunchBar has reined supreme as the one shareware application I could never use the operating system without, and the first download suggested to anyone switching over from Windows. For launching applications and accessing local content without grabbing the mouse, LaunchBar was the only game in town and worth every penny of the $39 registration fee.

But there’s a new gunslinger on the horizon — run, don’t walk, and download Quicksilver.

Copy Songs from your ipod to Mac

Senuti is a simple application for transfering songs from your iPod back to your computer.

There are many good reasons that someone would have to transfer music from her iPod back to her computer. There are many good ways to do it, too. Senuti is the only alternative that will give you the power and convenience that you need, wrapped in an interface that is extremely easy to use, at a cost that you can’t complain about.

• Lightning fast There’s a little file on your iPod called the iTunesDB file. What does that mean to you? Nothing. What does that mean to me? Everything. Every bit of information on every song on your iPod is stored in this little file. Every bit of information on your playlists is stored in this file, too. It’s how iTunes knows what’s on your iPod. It’s how your iPod knows what’s there, too. There isn’t a much faster way to figure out what’s on your iPod.

3 Great OSX screensavers

I have never really been one for screensavers ever since I made the move to the Macintosh platform. Not because I didn’t like the idea. Simply because I just could not find the stock OS X screensavers appealing to me. I just never had the time to look for third-party options.

This weekend, I decided I would embark on an online search for a few insanely great screensavers to install onto my Mac and share with you all. Thanks to Phill Ryu and a few other online sources, I came across three, one of which can bring you into the holiday spirit. The other two can be used all year ’round to give you the ultimate Aqua experience.

3. LotsaSnow
I just love the serenity of snow. Especially at this time of year, a snowflake is so calming and clean as it falls to the ground. Mac OS X is similar in the sense that this operating system is just so clean and easy to use. Put ‘em together and what do they spell? LotsaSnow. This simple screensaver adds drifting snowflakes overlaying your desktop or on a calm background while you are away from your desk. Inside system preferences, you can adjust the color of the background, size of your snow flake, and much more. LotsaSnow is a free, universal download.

Saving YouTube Videos to your mac

Let’s all not play around. YouTube is big – no.., gigantic. The 1.65 billion dollar website is one of the most popular sites for video sharing. One of the reasons is because of the amount of televised content that can be found. Want to see that political debate that was on last night? It’s there. How about that awesome Motley Crue performance? It’s there. People have even gotten into uploading whole episodes of many popular TV shows.

Until recently, the only way you could save these videos was to simply add them to your user favorites. Then developers starting getting clever…

Parallels Desktop: A perfect transition to Macs

Ever since Apple made the switch to the Intel architecture people have been looking for ways to install Windows on their Mac’s. Well it didn’t take long for Apple to grand them the wish in the form of Boot Camp. But this wasn’t what some were looking for; while Boot Camp did give the ability to run Windows it only allowed for one OS to be running at any given time. Soon though with the help of a new application (Parallels) users had the ability to simultaneously run Windows alongside OS X. I have Included some screenshots to show just what this looks like.

Notice how applications which are running under Windows XP show up in the OS X dock.