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Download Squad Week in Review

DLS logoLooking for a good way to load YouTube videos onto your iPod, organize your digital camera photos, keep your Mac software up to date, or protect your privacy while surfing on a public computer? Download Squad's got you covered. Here's a roundup of some our favorite stories from the past week.

Keeping it private (and safe!) on public computers


Ever find yourself looking up health advice or other potentially sensitive information while at the library? Our resident librarian has some tips for protecting your privacy when using public computers. Some tips are common sense: don't enter sensitive data like your social security information on a public PC, but there are some other basic steps you can take to keep your browsing sessions safe.

Tooble: Get YouTube videos on iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV


Sure, programs which download and convert YouTube videos to formats you can watch on a portable media player are a dime a dozen. Cheaper, actually, since most are free. But if you've got a Mac, you owe it to yourself to check out Tooble, a freeware YouTube video converter which does everything you could ever dream and more with just a few clicks.

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Namexif: Batch rename your digital camera files with the date and time

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If you've got a digital camera, we're going to go out on a limb and guess that your computer is littered with files bearing names like DCIM0001.JPG and IMG4527.JPG. Sure, you try to give your photos meaningful labels like "Us at the beach playing catch with our new puppy.jpg" but who has the time?

Namexif won't tell you which images have your adorable new puppy and which show your bratty kid sister. But it will automatically rename most of your images according to the date and time they were taken, which should help you keep your digital photo albums a bit more organized.

As the name suggests, Namexif will only work on images captured using EXIF compliant cameras, but that covers an awful lot of the digital cameras on the market. And if Namexif can't figure out the date and time an image was taken, it just won't rename the picture, so you have nothing to lose by trying it out.

[via No Heat]

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