Spotted: two great-looking softwares

First, a quick aside to let members know that the latest Apple Users Group Bulletin has been added to our members-only area. I've got to say that it gives me one more reason to wish that I had an iPhone (or at least a video iPod): the (free!) TubeTV software can "rip" YouTube (and other) videos for later viewing on your AppleTV, iPhone, or iPod.

TubeTV is a freeware program for Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, and above which enables you to search for, save, and convert YouTube and many other flash videos to a format suitable for playback on your favorite devices.

Looks quite easy and the little chatter I've heard has people speaking well of it. Next up, from the adorably named Sheep Systems, comes a software I had to buy once I'd tried it out -- though there's a free 14 day demo. Yes, I'm fickle when it comes to browsers and BookDog lets me organize my many bookmarks and ship them between all my browsers with nary a worry of a dropped link.

Bookdog allows users to sort (selectively alphabetize), import/export, migrate, verify, find redirects, search, and find duplicates among their bookmarks collections in Safari, Firefox 1.5-3.0, Camino, Google Bookmarks, del.icio.us, OmniWeb, Opera, Shiira 2.x and Netscape Navigator. Migrations can be scheduled using Apple's Automator, and bookmarks on other networked Macs or backup disks are easily accessible.