Comments on: yFlicks: It’s iPhoto For Video

By: Glenn Wolsey : Blog Archive : yFlicks 2: The New Video Organizer

Glenn Wolsey : Blog Archive : yFlicks 2: The New Video Organizer — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:01:17 +0000

[...] the media player called yFlicks I blogged about a while back? Many Tricks Software have released an update to the application, taking it to version [...]

By: Shreedhan

Shreedhan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:13:16 +0000

Did you see this mentioned on TUAW first? Or did you get an exclusive?

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:34:08 +0000

“Reader hangout”. Smooth Glenn, smooth.

By: Dway

Dway — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:10:41 +0000

I downloaded this, when I saw the post about this in TUAW. I fell in love instantly. I haven’t tried the YouTube features yet though.

I was 100% sure that you would make a blog post concerning yFlicks, Glenn!

By: wph

wph — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:53:25 +0000

I don’t have much need for it, but to be successful, they’d need to have a few things:

-Sync with iPod, not just export options, but actually sync with iTunes and iPod, without copying the videos.

-Browsing YouTube, search, browse, playback, and download, all from within the app.

-Upload to YouTube from within the app, handling all conversions in the process.

By: Smaran

Smaran — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:39:50 +0000

You mean, Tubular, I assume?

By: Glenn Wolsey

Glenn Wolsey — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:29:39 +0000

I was going to include that yFlicks is a potential YouTube competitor in the post, then I thought about it. yFlicks is for organizing your media, with the option of converting videos from YouTube to iPod format.

Whilst Tubular is 100% based on YouTube and online media. It allows you to browse, play, favorite, and download videos. It’s a far more focused application that appeals to a similar market trying to do something a little different to what yFlicks achieves.

By: Smaran

Smaran — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:22:56 +0000

What an interesting idea. Kind of like Pixadex for icons. I believe these content organisation apps that store files in databases really are the best way to organise one’s data. Even though I don’t see myself buying yFlicks for almost 1000 INR, I don’t see why someone else wouldn’t.

I currently use Democracy Player to both download and organise my videos. It can download videos from all of the popular video sharing sites like Google Video, YouTube, Revver and DailyMotion. It can also subscribe to video podcasts and BitTorrent feeds. I do most of my viewing in Front Row, but sometimes I just play stuff back in Democracy.

Glenn, do you think yFlicks is a potential Tubular competitor? I know Democracy is. But both Democracy and yFlicks do more than just download and organise YouTube clips.

The only thing I’d like to see is yFlicks go Open Source so that people can port it to other platforms like Linux.