Geeky Monday: easy video
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.
Regardless of your platform choice and level of geekiness, we also highly recommend the BBC comedy “The IT Crowd”:
Jane seems to enjoy it, too.
That I know you will seek out the best applications for various Mac things makes me lazy. Still, I appreciate your efforts and have implemented many of them.
And The IT Crowd is my current favorite thing ever.
Comment by Jagosaurus — Monday 27 November 06 @ 13.43 MST+2.00
I can only assume that no one else commented because they were all too busy acquiring their own copies of The IT Crowd.
Comment by Jane — Wednesday 29 November 06 @ 00.05 MST+2.00
We can only hope. The world would be a better place.
Comment by sgazzetti — Wednesday 29 November 06 @ 11.32 MST+2.00