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February 5, 2008

I Heart CosmoPod

One of the (under-appreciated) benefits of taking transit to work is being able to watch video on your iPod or iPhone while someone else does the driving. I love watching TV shows (I'm kinda addicted to "Entourage") or movies - particularly on the way home - as a way of unwinding after a long day.

Problem is, there's a lot of great video on the Internet that I'd like to see, much of it on YouTube, and I've been somewhat stymied about getting that stuff from YouTube's Flash-based video player into a format that my iPhone can understand.

Stymied, that was, until I discovered CosmoPod.

CosmoPod is this kick-ass plugin for Safari that detects a video clip on a Web page you're looking at, and, with a click:

• Downloads the file to your drive;
• Converts the file into iPhone/iPod-compatible QuickTime; and
• Adds the newly-converted file to iTunes.

In short, it rocks.

I find it incredibly useful for longish (40+ minutes) clips on YouTube - the sort I never have time to sit down and watch, uninterrupted, in front of my MacBook. (For some reason, these all seem to be taken from the "Talks @ Google" series - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, "The Secret History of Silicon Valley").

CosmoPod detects this stuff, downloads it, and pops it on to my phone - fantastic.

The product isn't free, but it is cheap - about ten bucks. If you're a commuter, it's well worth a look.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at February 5, 2008 3:13 PM. Posted to Apple | Entertainment.

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