Put YouTube on your iPod
Gridlock LLC announced today the release of Tooble, a free application for the Mac which puts YouTube videos on iPods.
Tooble is a new application which allows users to quickly and easily take any video from the phenomenally popular video sharing site, YouTube, and download it for playing on video iPods, iPhones, or Apple TVs. Tooble’s simple interface makes it easy to browse and search YouTube for content and then with one click automatically download the video, convert it to MP4, and then automatically imports it to iTunes for syncing with iPod, iPhone or Apple TV. The program is available to download for free at http://tooble.tv. Tooble is completely free, clean of spyware, adware, malware or viruses.
Tooble is different from other flash video download applications because it takes advantage of Googles gData and the YouTube API to communicate directly with YouTube. That being the case, in addition to being able to browse and search the general YouTube catalog tooble also gives users access to Favorites saved in a YouTube Account.
By far the most unique aspect of Tooble is that it was developed by 17 year old Jesse T Youngblood, a senior at the Connecticut private high school Cheshire Academy. Since Bill Piedra of Gridlock LLC approached him to develop Tooble, Jesse has written and maintained Tooble’s ten thousand lines of code on his own. Presently, Tooble is an application for the Mac only. A team of programmers lead by Alex Catullo, another Cheshire Academy senior, is working to develop a Windows version. Jesse, Bill, the Windows team and Susan Heintz, the students’ computer teacher, will be manning booth S-1338 at the MacWorld Expo, distributing copies of the application during its debut.
An upgraded version of the program which works with other popular flash video sites such as MetaCafe is slated to be released later this year, and will be sold for a small fee but the version to download from YouTube will always be free.
[B]About Gridlock LLC[/B]
Gridlock LLC is a startup software company which wants to create quality software and deliver it to as many people as possible for free. Gridlock pools the resources of brilliant talent to produce unique applications with the goal of offering the most useful, user-friendly and unique experience to users all over the world.
