Various apps discussed in this post are

1. Floola
2. iDump
3. YamiPod
4. SharePod
5. SongBird
6. MediaMonkey

1. Floola

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and latest iPod shuffle).

It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer!) and Windows (98 or newer, including Windows 7).

Foola iPod Manager

Features

• Cross plattform
• Copy add and extract songs to and from iPod.
• Playlists -  Easily manage, import and export (m3u, pls) playlists.
• Last.fm
• Podcasts
• Web videos – add files to iPod just copying the page url
• Lyrics Support – even on older iPods (3G and above).
• Search for duplicates – Easily find duplicated songs on iPod.
• Convert audio and video incompatible formats

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2. iDump

This program will allow you transfer your songs off your iPod to a PC. Connect you iPod and run iDump and you’ll have access to all your songs, select the songs you want to transfer then pick a destination directory and how you would like your songs to be named.

iDump iPod Manager

Features

• Output formatting – Gives you the option to select an output directory and the way the songs will be transferred.
• Unattended Transfer - deals with common errors like what to do if a song already exist on the destination drive etc.
• Search
• Playlists
• Export Playlists – This option will export all of your playlists in to the standard .m3u format.

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3. YamiPod

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.

Yamipod iPod Manager

Features

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4. SharePod

SharePod was designed from the start to be lightweight, quick and responsive ipod manager

Sharepod iPod Manager

Features

• Add & remove music and videos from your iPod
• Add, remove and edit playlists
• Add & remove album art
• View and backup photos
• Copy music, videos and playlists from your iPod to PC
• Import music/videos into your iTunes library, including playlists and ratings
• Tag editing
• Drag n’ drop to and from Explorer
• Simple, clean interface
• Quick to load and use with no unnessary complicated features
• Support for iPhone and iTouch (Thanks to Nikias Bassen, Paul Sladen, Jonathan Beck, and Christophe Fergeau for making this possible)

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5. SongBird

Play your iPod from Songbird and synchronize it with your Songbird library (with the help of iPod device Songbird extension). We can even copy songs to your iPod or synchronize your iPod from your Songbird library.

Songbird iPod Sync

Features

• Sync – Add a song or build a playlist, and Songbird automatically syncs it to your phone or MP3 player
• Manage – Search, sort, stream, sync. Add Flickr photos, YouTube videos, song lyrics, and blogs for every artist on your playlist, even the tracks you stream over the Web. It’s all part of the mix.

Install iPod Device Support Addon to be able to sync the iPods

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6. MediaMonkey

Sync with iPhones, iPods, and most any MP3 phone or Audio Device. Just click the Sync button to sync tracks, podcasts, and related properties such as Album Art, ratings, play history, and playlists.

Media Monkey - Music Organizer

Features

• Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface
• Create playlists and let Auto-DJ & Party Mode take care of your party.
• Sync iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly.

(Read this article to learn how to make MediaMonkey portable)

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Using Odosketch cant be easier. Just select the crayon type and color you want and start sketching. Once done, it can be saved and shared with other odosketch artists. The saved sketch can be retrieved from our profile later on for further enhancement.

Embedding

The sketch cannot be exported as an image, but if you want to show off your work in your website, odosketch gives you the embed code.

Video

Check this video for sketches created using odosketch

What are you waiting for… Unleash your creativity… Start sketching now…

Author website : http://www.sebastianjt.com

This text animation was created by French designer Oliver Beaudoin.
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Seam carving is an image resizing algorithm developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. This algorithm alters the dimensions of an image not by scaling or cropping, but rather by intelligently removing pixels from (or adding pixels to) the image that carry little importance.

The importance of a pixel is generally measured by its contrast when compared with its neighbor pixels, but other measures may be used. Additionally, it’s possible to define (or autodetect) areas of high importance (faces, buildings, etc.) in which pixels may not be deleted, and conversely, areas of zero importance which should be removed first. From this information, the algorithm detects seams (continuous lines of pixels joining opposite edges of the image) which have the lowest importance, and deletes those. This shrinks the image by one horizontal or vertical line, depending on which direction the seam ran.

Seam carving can also be run in reverse by adding interpolated pixels along the lowest energy seam.

With this technique, it’s now possible to reduce or enlarge pictures by a wide range, while still retaining details. In normal image scaling, it’s often not possible to scale about factor greater than 2 or less than 0.5, without losing much of the images quality.

More Info : SeamCarving

Check out SeamCarving plugin for GIMP (Examples here)

Highlights

• Sleek UI design
• No need of registration!
• Ability to Search songs
• Quickly create a playlist (Drag-n-Drop)
• Can embed any track/playlist in your website
• Popular songs playlist available

Embed MixTape

Note: MixTape is still in Beta so you can expect problems any time (I have not faced any problems, yet!)

Xtranormal is an online application which turns your imagination to life. Creating animations with Xtranormal is very easy and can be accompolished in four simple steps.

1. Pick your scene (Backgrounds, Music, Actor Skin etc)
2. Type the script (Not the ‘scripts’ in programming terms, here we mean dialogues)
3. Add actions and sounds (Just drag-n-drop)
4. Publish & Share ( In video sharing sites like YouTube or in Xtranormal catalog)

Xtranormal Editor

Sample Video

[Alternate Link : High Quality Version]

Check out more videos at Xtranormal YouTube Channel & Video Catlog

Publishing Video to Youtube

Once you create your animations, it can be easily published in YouTube easily.

Check these videos to understand more…

Xtranormal Version

Video Version

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