AmphonicDesigns have released a new version of Album Cover Finder for Mac, version 3.3. Album Cover Finder (like the name implies) includes these features:

- Cover Artwork, Album Reviews, and Track Listings for your favorite artists and albums.
- iTunes Integration to see and control what's playing. Listen to entire albums or double click on any track to play.
- Regional Searching for USA, UK, Japan, and Germany helps find more Album Covers.
- Automatically send artwork to iTunes in three different sizes.
- Artwork displays in the Dock for song currently playing in iTunes.

You can get it for Mac in our iPod Download section.

CDFinder is the perfect software solution to organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of your digital media assets. If you work in a large network, or alone, CDFinder will quickly find your files. If you are looking for a powerful disk cataloging tool for the Apple Macintosh, The Search Is Over! (If you run Windows, no reason for despair: CDWinder for Windows is for you!)

CDFinder catalogs your photos, audio files, or any other data files.

System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or newer, Tiger compatible
 
- Catalogue any data disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, iPod, server volume, Audio-CD, and more
- Networkable: Share your valuable data in your network (requires a Business License)
- Cross-platform: with CDWinder for Windows!
- Powerful Find functions, and offline browsing
- Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside CDFinder
- Protect your investment by importing your existing Disk Recall, DiskWizard, FindIt, Disk Tracker 1.x, Catalogue and CatFinder catalog files
- Reads MP3 and AAC (iTunes) audio meta data (AIFF and WAVE, too)!
- Catalogue your photo data, with EXIF, IPTC meta data, and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo info
- Fast and easy to use, see screen shots
- Export or print catalog data
- Handle really large amounts of data (some are limited to only 2000 or 4000 files!)
- Look inside ZIP (Panther, Tiger!), TAR, .rar, StuffIt (up to 6.5.1), and other archive files
- Multiple languages: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch
- Free email support
- More at their homepage [here].

You can get it for Mac OSX in our iPod Download section.
You can get it for Windows in our iPod Download section.

MakiEnterprise has released a new version of PodSmith, version 1.1. With PodSmith, iPod works as a key for your computer. You can lock or unlock your Macintosh with your iPod. Features of PodSmith include:

1. Screen Lock
    You can lock and unlock the screen by unmounting and mounting your iPod.
    Of course you can unlock the computer by typing your password without your iPod.
2. File Lock
    Specified folders or files can be locked by unmounting your iPod.
3. Protect your files
    Disable all applications except those you specify.

Systems requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
PodSmith works for any iPod model, including iPod Shuffle.
You can check out pricing and more info on their website [here].

You can get it in our Nintendo DS Download section.

 

Album Cover Finder has been  updated to versions 3.2.1 (Mac) and 3.1.7 (PC).  Enjoy cover art from your favorite artists with Multiple Results and Album Reviews from an Artist's Catalog returned with every search.

iTunes Integration to see and control what's playing. Find more Album Covers with Regional Searching for USA, UK, Japan, and Germany. Automatically send artwork to iTunes in one of three sizes. Listen to entire albums or double click on any track to play. On a Mac the currently playing artwork displays in dock. Plus so much more.

New in this version:

• iTunes Music Library.xml was not being saved in the AlbumCoverFinder Prefs.txt file causing ACF to ask for the file everytime the program was started if the file was not in the default location.
  

You can get it for Mac in our iPod Download section.

You can get it for PC in our iPod Download section.

CopyPod v7.62 has just been released. For those not familiar with this program, here is an excerpt from their site:

CopyPod is the ultimate backup & recovery tool for your iPod. You are one click away from retrieving your music, ratings, playlists, playcounts to your PC. CopyPod is a lifesaver when sending your iPod for repair, in cases of computer/hard drive crash, or just to backup up to a different drive. CopyPod will do the job effortlessly.

Here are the changes in this version:

• Songs order in playLists maintained when backing up to iTunes
• Faster iPod songs listing
• And many more!

You can get it in our iPod Download section.

iPodsoft have released version 1.0.2 of MarksMan for the iPod. This is a tool for users who enjoy listening to audiobooks, and helps for bookmarking positions. Here are the features:

- list all bookmark-able files currently on the iPod
- for each such file, show the current bookmark time if there is one
- allow you to change the bookmark time to any time you like
- store past bookmarks (saves current marks each time you run it)
- save named bookmarks for a particular file (eg ?Chapter 1")
- print out all bookmark data
- creates a ?human readable? file in the iPod Notes folder showing current and saved bookmarks (so you can check bookmark times while away from your computer)
- import and export saved bookmarks (eg for named chapter lists)
- safely preserve your current bookmark while reviewing earlier parts
of the book
- even remove the book files from the iPod, or reformat the iPod,
knowing that you can still recover your reading point
- estimate a bookmark time based on a page number in the printed book, or vice-versa

You can download it in our iPod Download section.

Have a large, cluttered collection of CD?s? You may be interested in CDpedia v2.0.4 by Bruji for the Mac OS X. This CD management tool will integrate with iTunes and tell you the tracks that have been physically let out to friends. With CDpedia, entering song and CD info is a snap. When you enter a CD into your Mac, all pertinent information will be loaded from Amazon.com or Freedb.org. You can also hold your CD in front of an iSight camera and CDpedia will use the barcode to grab CD info off the net.

After the info has be collected, CDpedia will create collections of your favorite music, based on your choices, and will add to the list as more music is added. Here are the new features in this release:

• Remembers iSight window location
• Bug fix: removing the My Rating column using the view options could cause a crash
• Bug fix: to get advance search, could get stuck in certain situations

CDpedia requires mac OS X v10.2 and up.

Those interested should also take a look at Delicious Monster?s Delicious Library for Mac OS X. Delicious Library will let you iSight?scan and organize audio CDs, game CDs, DVDs and books on a graphical shelf system.

You can download the trial version below, which limits you to 10 CDs, and to unlock the full version, you can buy it.

You can get it in our iPod Download section.

Staylazy has just released v2.0 of their Canto Pod program for the iPod. This release includes a new featured lyrics site, ability to view songs on your iPod, new search result list, and much more. Here is what they had to say:

Okay, lets face it, Pink Floyd has way to many songs to remember all the words to...

You may need a bigger iPod.
Thanks to LeosLyrics.com, were going to openly challenge you to not find the lyrics your looking for. With over 180,000 lyrics in the database, LeosLyrics and Canto Pod make for one of the most extensive iPod lyric programs out there.

Search. Listen. Sing
Synchronization with Weather for Me is a fast, easy, painless process. Forecasts are downloaded to your iPod almost instantly, perfect for if you are about to step out of the door.

"Hmmm, I never heard this song"
Canto Pod does not limit you to searching for lyrics that are only on your iPod. You may find a song with lyrics that you feel strongly about while searching, and realize that you dont even have it on your iPod or even in your music library. Luckily, we link to the number one legal on line music store, the iTunes Music Store.

Whats Hot, Whats Not
With our new Featured Lyric site you can view the lyrics that our group of volunteers are suggesting you check out, as well as seeing the Top 10 requested lyrics by users of Canto Pod. Its easy and painless, just click and look. Also, you can make a suggestion for a Band, Artist, or specific song that you think should be featured.

You can get it in our iPod Download section.

iPod Battery v1.1 is used to change the iPod battery indicator. By default iPod display a battery with some small tags. You can change to a numeric representation from 0 to 999, giving a better understanding of battery status.

Open program and select your iPod from popup menu.
Click on this icon


to change from analog to digital.
Or click on this icon


to change from digital to analog. You can rescan for a newly connected iPod clicking on Rescan". You can see unix commands sent to shell to change settings.

Important notes:

• PLEASE disconnect completely from your Mac to see changes. As long as iPod remains connected, You cannot see any change.
• This app was tested on original 10GB iPod and on U2 black iPod.
• Obviously it does NOT work on Shuffle! we tried, NO DAMAGE, but Shuffle as no LCD display!
  

You can get it in our iPod Download section.

QuickSync is the easy folder sync utility for PowerBook and hand held owners. QuickSync can be used with jump drives, Hand holds, iPods or users of any other device that mounts as a drive on your desktop. This application can be used to keep your mp3 collection or important files up to date. QuickSync features Single or Bi-direction sync, automatic sync which detects devices as they are plugged in, the synchronizes the selected folders automatically. QuickSync is drag and drop aware, easy to use and cost effective.

Features Include:

• AutoSync feature

• Task Scheduling

• Sync and Burn, burn synced folders to disc

• Bi-Directional or mono-directional sync

• Works with a variety of devices and networked drives (iPod, Hand holds, .mac)

• Save Session data

• Generates a report of copied and synced files

You can get it in our iPod Download section.