Linked List: May 29, 2009

Friday, 29 May 2009

Evom 

My thanks to The Little App Factory for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Evom, their brand-new Mac app for video format conversion. I’ve used it Evom several times this week and it’s exactly the app I’ve wanted. I like HandBrake, and I used to use VisualHub before its developer pulled the plug on it, but 99 percent of the time I don’t want to fiddle with detailed conversion options. I just want to convert video for use on devices like my Apple TV or iPhone, and I just want the output to look good without taking up too much space.

That’s exactly how Evom works. Drag-and-drop input, then select a destination device or location, and it just works. And, in addition to converting files on your computer — such as AVIs, WMVs, and MKVs — Evom will also work to archive Flash-based movies from the web to files on your computer. I really like it.

Jon Lech Johansen Speculates on How the Palm Pre Syncs Music and Video With iTunes 

I think he’s got it: the Pre is masquerading as an iPod over USB. Johansen expects Apple to block this in a future update to iTunes. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did, but I’m not so sure.

Also, answering my questions from yesterday, Pre iTunes syncing works on Windows, too, and because it’s masquerading as an iPod should work in both directions.