Dave’s choices in naming episodes not withstanding, we had a great show again this week. I joined the geeks for the latest round of the Global Geek Podcast.
LiteIcon
First up this week is FreeMacSoft’s LiteIcon. This is a great application for helping you manage the system icons on your Mac. Apple has a tendency to dumb-down everything for their systems hiding the guts behind nicely designed UIs… most of the time. Icon management is something that they’ve never gotten right.
LiteIcon will allow you to swap out your icon set for OS X, and more importantly, swap them back to the originals. The only thing this doesn’t include is icons for you to use. You could always get some icons from a site like InterfaceLIFT to pimp out your mac.
LiteIcon is a freebie.
Flash Video Downloader 2
The second app for this week is Tesseract Software’s Flash Video Downloader. This app will allow you to point any website URL to the tool, and it will scan the source code for the page and find any flash video links and it will automatically download the .flv files.
The app works fairly well and allows you to download batches of files at a time, and has some other “batchy” features like a notification beep, or the ability to shut down the computer afterward.
The only catch with this tool is that it won’t allow you to convert the files from the .flv format. But for a freebie, not too shabby.
VisualHub
It’s been a long time since I did an app that wasn’t a freebie, but in my search for a really good conversion tool I came up empty in the freebie department.
Techspansion’s VisualHub is an app that will take any format in, and push any format out. There’s support for pretty much every video format on the market including H.264, DV, PSP, AVI, and the ever ellusive FLV.
The only downside is that the app costs about $25… but like the Techspansion dev team says: “justify it by thinking of the cost per frame.”
And that wraps up this weeks Mac updates. Join us again next time for more mac apps, and more GGP goodness.
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