Watch YouTube videos on your iPod, anytime
Written on January 15, 2008 – 1:04 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
I don’t know what it’s like in the rest of the world, yet in Holland the wireless Internet coverage still isn’t very good. It even seems like that when you’re in desperate need of some entertainment - in the train or bus stop in the middle of nowhere -, the feeling of disappointment is stronger than the satisfied feeling when it IS available. And I’m sure I’m not alone in this.
So it’s not too surprising that developers world-wide work on applications that make the off line live just a little bit easier. Tooble is a recent result of those ambitions: ‘YouTube comes to iPod’.
Tooble automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes. Of course you could already watch videos on the iPhone and iPod Touch using GPRS/EDGE, but the only joy that comes from that is making up original ways of swearing about the damn lack of speed.
Google won’t be amused about this service. They’re probably working behind the scenes on some sort of YouTube function for off line applications service Google Gears. And now this small start-up called Gridlock LLC came up with it first.
Thank you guys, for entertaining me during those awful hours of no Internet connection. Want to meet these heroes from Gridlock/ Tooble? You can shake their hands at stand S-1338 at the Macworld Conference in San Fransisco this week.
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By bert on Jan 16, 2008 | Reply
it only works under mac for the moment being…
By Fabio on Jan 18, 2008 | Reply
Only for Mac? Way way better!!! :)
Seriously, I’m afraid this kind of services will be banned at some point, unfortunately…
It happened to a couple of them I used for downloading online videos… :(
By Bill on Jan 24, 2008 | Reply
We promise that as soon as google breaks it, we’ll fix it. Google actually gave us an API that uses gData and RSS feeds strait from YouTube - that’s how this program works.
By Fabio on Jan 24, 2008 | Reply
@Bill - Great. I gave it a go last week and the service is great. The real hurdle now is the average crappy video quality provided by YouTube.
By jietjiang on Jul 23, 2008 | Reply
Hi,all , i just want to ipod can view or watch youtube directly, not convert:) as i kwon ,psp and itouch can do that stuff:)
Good luck:)