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Aug 19 2008

Safari plugin CosmoPod lets you download online video and convert for iPod

CosmoPod copy 20080819 200147 Safari plugin CosmoPod lets you download online video and convert for iPodI’m on a bit of a Safari plug-in kick this week it seems. Today, I’m looking at CosmoPod, an extension that lets you download online videos from places like YouTube and then convert them to an iPod or AppleTV friendly format.

CosmoPod adds a button to the Safari Toolbar that becomes clickable when CosmoPod detects a video format it can download (FLV, Windows Media (mms) and Real Media stream (rtsp), WMV, DivX, …). Click that button and the download begins…then then conversion (MPEG4 or H.264 encoding)…then the naming and adding to iTunes if you so desire. You can also convert videos from your hard drive just by dragging and dropping.

CosmoPod sells for EUR6.90.

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Aug 19 2008

Dockland Software releases a ”Fantasktik” new taskbar app

preview 20080819 193654 Dockland Software releases a Fantasktik new taskbar appFantasktik an interesting little taskbar application for Mac OS X Leopard that displays all your running applications and their open windows in a kind of secondary menu bar below the traditional one.

Hover your cursor over a window name on Fantasktik and you will be treated to a mini version of that window. Click on a window name to bring that window to the front. Double-click on any application icon shown by Fantasktik to toggle the collapse of that app’s information on the taskbar.

I’m not sure how useful Fantasktik will turn out to be, but as an interface it is undeniably beautiful. Most of what it does can be replicated by Application Switching or through the use of Expose. But if those system features no longer hold any “whiz-bang” excitement for you, you might want to give Fantasktik a whirl.

Dockland Software, developer of Fantasktik, is currently offering it at an introductory price of USD$9.99 (33% off) until September 30, 2008. Fantasktik 1.0 will then be available for USD$14.99 USD. A fully-functional, 15 day trial version is available.

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Aug 14 2008

Yahoo! Inquisitor 3.2 (v57) released

Inquisitor 20080813 220351 Yahoo! Inquisitor 3.2 (v57) releasedInquisitor is a Safari add-on that adds Spotlight-like functions to its search field. As you type, Inquisitor offers appropriate websites and help to refine your search. It can even auto-complete your typing as if it somehow knows just what you’re after.

Inquisitor has been a favorite of Mac users for a while, but this release is a little different; it’s first major release since Inquisitor was acquired by Yahoo! It’s always a bit of an uneasy change when a company with an axe to grind or, in this case, search results to serve, takes over a product that had previously been without an agenda in favor of a particular search engine. The guys who code Inquisitor say they’ve been working hard to keep the essence of the project intact as they incorporate Yahoo technology like the new Yahoo! Search BOSS platform.

As a result of the new technological resources, this new release should show a marked performance boost and has a “slicked up” visual design as well as support for eight new languages: Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.

Inquisitor is free.

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