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We don’t geek around with video much at all, but we do use a video iPod to watch stuff we wouldn’t have access to otherwise. We have reason to love this program that makes it so painless.

This free converter, called iSquint, is a super-efficient way to get non-iTunes video into an iPod. Our iPod is kept eternally docked and connected to the stereo and to the television, where it has brought us much joy via The [American] Office, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, and so on, which enter the iPod with a minimum of fuss. Any other content, though, requires a fair amount of futzing around, and with iSquint this major bottleneck has been removed. We wholeheartedly recommend this program for Mac.

The only help available for this piece of freeware comes from the album of the same name.

My basic inquiries into whether a similar free-standing program for Windows exists were inconclusive: initially I found many highly articulated expressions of woe that iSquint is not available for Windows, but some say the same results are achievable with just a bit more friggin’ around; still others claim Videora is just like iSquint, only, not quite. I haven’t tried it, but it is also free free free.