Filed under: Macintosh, Shareware, iPhone
Jax puts YouTube videos onto iPod, iPhone
by Ted Wallingford Sep 18th 2007
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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
