IPodMe is a free, open source program that can convert video into MP4 format suitable for iPod or iPhone playback. It is a portable, single executable which contains all the filters and codecs needed for it to do its job. Want to convert your videos so →
Stitcher: one stop-shop news podcasts radio
Stitcher is a web service that brings together a number of internet radio news podcasts, creates virtual stations by topic, and allows users to customize stations and bookmark favorites, etc. Stitcher is also available on the iPhone. The principle behind this site is rather simple: bring →
Evri: re-discover the interconnected web
Evri is a web service that indexes parts of the internet, reads and linguistically “understands” it and discovers connections between entities based on the activity of texts and articles. It then allows you to browse information within the dynamically built (and constantly changing) structure of interconnected →
Find the nearest free wireless internet spot with Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder
Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder is a web service that can give you a list of free wireless internet locations for any address of your choosing and present these locations visually on a map of the area. If, say, you’re going to a conference, going to visit →
PicLens provides instant immersive slideshows on many websites
PicLens is a free browser extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari that interacts with a number of the most popular image sharing sites to provide a seamless, full-screen “immersive slideshow” experience. Sites supported include Google Images, Yahoo Images, Facebook, Friendster, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums. →
Find large format album artwork at AlbumArt.og
AlbumArt.org is a site that provides searchable CD and DVD art in large format. I’ve always used Amazon to download album art, which doesn’t provide large size images, and is on occasion unable to deliver artwork for some titles. My second resource is typically Google →
ITunes Art Importer
ITunes Art Importer is a plugin for Itunes that downloads album art from Amazon.com and saves it within the music files ID3 tag. It adds an additional layer of user control over the process of finding album art beyond that provided by ITunes. While ITunes provides →
MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter
MP3 to iPod Audio Book Converter will combine a number of MP3 files into a single .M4B audiobook file. Ipod M4B audiobooks support a number of features including remembering last listening position and the ability to adjust reading speed. Having recently transferred an audiobook consisting of →
Autostitch
Autostitch can automatically join multiple consecutive images together to create a single, panoramic view. It does this automatically without user involvement or intervention. In order to evaluate this program I took 46 snapshots constituting a 360 degree ’exploration’ of our living room and loaded these into Autostitch. You →
Ipodifier
Ipodifier is a video to Ipod conversion software that can be scheduled to scan user-specified directories for video files and, when found, convert these to Ipod mp4 videos. Once the conversion is complete it can transfer the resulting video to iTunes and your Ipod. The basic →
Ipod Video Converter for Free
Ipod Video Converter for Free converts a myriad of video formats into Ipod-compliant MP4 container videos, including WMV, MKV, ASF, FLV and VOB as well as the usual AVI (DivX, Xvid) and Mpeg formats. It will also download and convert Youtube Videos. [Update Jan 17 2008: since reviewing →
Sideload.com
Sideload.com is a sister website to MP3Tunes.com which aggregates all MP3 files that the users of MP3Tunes have found on the web and “sideloaded” into their MP3Tunes lockers. Sideload allows you to search MP3s, listen to them and/or copy them into your own MP3Tunes account. This →
