iFlicks -- iTunes for your Movies
Helixent Technologies has announced their first Mac OS X product: iFlicks. This useful program allows you to organize all of your digital video files into a library, and categorize the videos by genre, category, director, episode, etc. You can browse the videos in list form just like tracks in iTunes, or you can browse them by thumbnails of the first frame of the video (this view looks and behaves just like iPhoto).iFlicks includes a movie player which supports .MOV and .AVI files, and can also manage and play MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 formats.
I downloaded the demo version and found the utility to be fast and intuitive. I have hundreds of video clips that I took with my digital camera and uploaded to my Mac, and I never can tell what they are. With iFlicks, I can give them longs titles and divide them into categories, and browse them the same way I do my photos in iPhoto.
iFlicks has a bonus feature: It integrates with NetFlix. You can view NetFlix's various "Top 25" charts, as well as your own queue and wish list (if you are a member).
I'm definitely buying the full version, which seems like a great bargain at $29.
Try iFlicks today.
Update: iFlicks is currently unavailable for unspecified reasons. Please read the notice on their site.
Another Update: iFlicks is back!
posted by Paul Wren at 6:45 AM | perma link
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From the page at http://www.helixent.com/iflicks/download/notice.html"iFlicks is no longer available.Helixent Technologies is sorry to report that iFlicks is no longer available, at least for the time being. Due to a situation that has arisen, we have made the decision to halt further distribution of iFlicks.
We would like to note, to the people who have already installed and/or purchased iFlicks, that we are not aware of any serious technical problems with iFlicks. If you have a copy, it will continue to function as normal. The situation that has caused us to cease distribution of iFlicks is in no way something that will cause undesirable effects to any computer in which iFlicks is installed and/or running.
At this point, we can not say for certain what the future holds for iFlicks. We were and are really excited about the capabilities it provides in allowing people to organize and play movies. Ideally, iFlicks will return in the coming months, as an even better and more useful application. However, we are still looking into our options to resolve the issue we are having, and cannot make any promises. We can make one assertion, though. If and when iFlicks returns, it will be a free upgrade to anyone who has already purchased a copy.
Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot provide further details as to why we have made the decision to halt distribution of iFlicks. As soon as we are aware of further details which we can make public, we will post the information to this page. If you are concerned or otherwise interested, just periodically check back to the iFlicks web site.
We'd like to thank everyone who has expressed their support and satisfaction with iFlicks. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes, and we hope that we can make it up to you in the future. Unfortunately, the situation at hand has forced us to make this very disappointing decision."
There are several other similar apps. Check out the following apps if you're interested in something similar:
iVideo
http://www.waterfallsw.com/ivideo/
Movie Gallery
http://moviegallery.bitfield.se/static/en/
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