iSquint is an iPod video conversion kit, a very good one to say the least. It’s built for Mac OS and runs at super sharp speeds. iSquint works with all popular video formats.
Converting is simple, drag and drop and you’re on your way to hugging your iPod. You can also convert to TV size and set the quality of the video. We [iApp] personally recommend using High or go Nuts. An extra feature is the ability to add to iTunes when it has finished converting.

See it for your self, it’s free and available now.
(v1.5.2 - 5.7MB -
03/06/08 Mac OS X
10.3.9 or
later)

Just thought Id tell you all that the week of Leopard giveaways have now ended, thanks to all who have entered.

EDIT-XTREEM will be posting notification of who has won soon!

Today is Friday, and as I post this, 1 week, 3 hours and 30 minutes from the release of leopard, I have decided to extend all Week Of Leopard giveaways for an additional week. This is includes the iShowU Giveaway, the TextExpander 2 Giveaway, the MacDust Giveaway, the CSSEdit Giveaway and the Giveaway for my secret app.

Hope everyone is enjoying Leopard, and week of leopard on iAppblog!

Rating: 4.5/5

I’m a bit surprised that more people haven’t found SOHO Notes. At least if you look at osx.iusethis.com Yojimbo is far in the lead among the personal information managers. Forgive me but, I just don’t get why more folks aren’t using SOHO Notes.

As far as features go, SOHO Notes is edging out all the others in my estimation. The only thing I can point to is Chronos’ decision to not make the database open, meaning you can’t get at the data in any easy way if something happens to SOHO Notes. They provide a robust backup system but there are people who are certainly squeamish if you don’t make the data available in a transparent way that doesn’t rely on the proprietary software. I can understand that.

OTOH, this is one rockin’ PIM, Organizer or Note app ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù whichever you prefer to label it. Calling it a note app doesn’t do it justice though. The naming comes from the relationship it had as the replacement to Chronos’ StickyNotes app but it does so much more.

The latest update includes a form for serial numbers as well as a new default folder for them. You can also design you own forms for entry of specific information into the database. This app has an amazing amount to offer for the price. Note taking, indeed you can use it for that. You can synchronize notes to your iPod too. It works beautifully as an organizer for your files ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù though none that I’ve looked at can handle Office files well, they can usually show that it is an .xls or .doc file but SOHO Notes works well with .txt or .pdf files - including viewing within the app. For .xls and .doc it links to the actual file, so you can still make use of the organizational feature. Clicking on the icon of will open the .xls or .doc in Office.

SOHO Notes is also great for archiving web pages in connection with specific notes, journal entries, etc. Very handy. You can view pages you’ve loaded into SOHO Notes when offline ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù of course the links will error out on you unless you are connected to the internet but you can view all of the content that you’ve archived within SOHO Notes.

The only things that would put it over the top for me and push it to 5/5 would be to make the database truly available via OpenBase (upon which it is actually built) and allow me to publish blog posts to other than Atom API blogs so I could make wider use of it. That would allow me to ditch at least one other app I use for blogging/journal writing!

Version Reviewed: 6.1.1

Retail Price: $39.99 / upgrade $25

Site: http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohonotes.html

Rating: 4/5

General Info: Photoprint is, as hinted by the title, an application for printing photos. But, the difference here is that you don’t just print your photos out, you print them out in an album.

Yes, this means that you can do what iPhoto promises to do for free! The method you use to make a photo album is really simple, you can add an image from your iPhoto library (or anywhere else), resize it, mask it and then add text. Its like using Pages for designing photo albums, with all of the useful features built in. photoprint comes with a vast array of built in templates, or you can make your own,by masking pictures, adding backrounds.

There is so much to explore in photoprint that’s its hard to sum it up a one review, but I recommend you download the trial version of the software and see whether you can make use of it.

For what photoprint does, it does it very well, but Apple’s iPhoto solution (creating Photo Books) still, to me looks like a better options, but, if you’d like to do it yourself, definitely check out photoprint.

Price: $29.95

Site: http://www.smileonmymac.com/photoprinto

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Rating: 5/5

General Info: SoundSource is a quick menu-bar item that allows you to select the input and/or output device without firing up System Preferences, then Sound. Say you want to use an external microphone. Rather than firing up ‘prefs, you just mouse over to SoundSource. This app saves much time and is free. Can one reasonably ask for more?

Retail Price: Free!

Site: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

Rating: 3.5/5

General Info: Downsize is a handy image resizer. It allows you the basic functions of re-sizing and goes that bit further to provide you with watermarking, adding image borders and adding shadows. Downsize neatly intergrates into your iPhoto library, allowing you to choose albums to Downsize. Although it does not let you choose custom pictures from your iPhoto library. If you don’t use iPhoto, or have a folder of images you need resizing then you can do that too. I found Downsize best for batch resizing photos in albums or in folders. I added watermarks, borders and sizing options to a batch of 24 photos, and it wasn’t long before I had a folder of resized images with my watermark all over them (what I’m trying to say is, its quick). So then, in conclusion, Downsize is great for batch resizing, where you don’t need individual control over each image, its preview function is quick, it took seconds to get a preview for my iPhoto library (over 3000 photos), but if you need greater control over each image, I’d personally use QuickScale. Saying that, Downsize is very intuitive, and if you just need a simple resizing job done, it does it very quickly, easily and with no fuss at all.

Reatail Price: $19.95

Site: http://www.stuntsoftware.com/Downsize/