Jax puts YouTube videos onto iPod, iPhone

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Jax puts YouTube videos onto iPod, iPhone

by Ted Wallingford Sep 18th 2007

Jax adds a grab-bag of features to iTunes.

Despite Apple's inclusion of a hefty feature set in its iApps and the iPhone, there always seem to be a few things missing that users want, and it's left to the hacker community to add these missing features. Mass-adding album art to iTunes used to be a pain. So did putting RSS news items onto your iPod. So, coincidentally, did viewing YouTube videos on your iPod or offline iPhone.
Jax has solved all these dilemmas and more. The program, which we're convinced is named after the cliche "jack of all trades" is really a hack of all trades, because its functionality isn't limited to just music, or to video. Jax really does a ton of stuff. Like automatically collecting album art for your iTunes library, converting your RSS subscriptions into spoken audio files for syncing to your iPod, iTunes lyric searching and a scrolling lyrics visualizer (very handy for practicing musicians), and even automated downloading and transfer of YouTube videos to your iPod or iPhone.

Tags: iphone, ipod, itunes, jax, music

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

stainboy said 4:51PM on 9-18-2007

Jax has a hefty price tag, but it's a neat way of extending your iPod. it started its life at Kainjow Software as Pod2Go, later renamed Life2Go. ProSoft acquired it, renamed it Jax, improved and added a lot of things, and are selling it under the JoeSoft brand. i like that it's integrated within iTunes now and has some great new features.

at $50 i think it's priced too high for the market. i have it because i was a previous Life2Go user and was offered an upgrade at a reduced price. to me it has the feel of a $30 product. would like to see improvements to the interface in the future and speed optimizations whereever possible.

i recommend you try it out, but be warned you should uninstall iVisualize if you have it. Jax has iVisualize built into it and having both installed crashes iTunes.

james48 said 10:36AM on 10-30-2007

here is also a great site i fond to download youtube videos you can also download videos from other sites myspace, google video, and so on here is the url http://www.vidmetro.com

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