Windows only: If you love your iPod but aren’t crazy about iTunes, CopyTrans Manager is a solid alternative that can add media to and organize media on your iPod, iPhone, and Palm Pre.

This nifty little app is compatible with all iPod models, iPhones (up to firmware 3.1), and also the Palm Pre. Use it to drag and drop media files to your device directly from your Windows PC. You can move music, videos, books, podcasts, movies—essentially any file your device can play. A couple of clicks is all it takes to remove files from your device that you no longer want to carry around with you.

You can also use CopyTrans Manager to create and edit playlists as well as edit individual track information. If you’re into album cover art, the app will even import new artwork to your device. One of CopyTrans Manager’s best features: You can store it right on your iPod and use it to play music on any PC without installing any files.

One thing this app lacks is a way to copy music to your computer from your device, but we’ve got you covered there. Give one of the apps from this roundup of iPod/iPhone-to-desktop transfer tools a try. CopyTrans Manager is a free download, Windows only.

Cool YouTube To Mp3 Converter is a windows application to download YouTube MP3 songs and music videos. Cool YouTube To Mp3 Converter supports HD/HQ YouTube Video downloading, and also supports most of popular media formats like MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV, WAV, AMR, AVI, MPG, 3GP, MOV etc.

Features:

• Download YouTube MP3
  Download Millions of YouTube MP3 Songs from YouTube by YouTube MP3 Downloader for your iPod, MP3 Player or Cellphone.
• Download YouTube HD/HQ MP4 Video
  YouTube MP3 Downloader will help you to download High Definition/High Quality YouTube Video.
• Save YouTube Video As Most of Popular Formats
  Cool YouTube To MP3 Converter supports most of popular formats like MP3, MP4, WMV, WMA, MOV, MPG, FLV, AVI, WAV, AC3, AMR etc.

We have previously covered a tool to download all the Bing wallpapers using a free tool. If you are a Picasa user, then Picasa Downloader is a useful tool to download Picasa Web albums easily and quickly with few clicks. This application lets you download multiple Picasa web albums of a selected Picasa users with only a few clicks and without Picasa being installed. The albums to be downloaded should be public albums.

Steps to download the albums; Enter the Picasa Username, you can enter your friends username as well (if the user has public albums)*Hit the List button- This will show the list of all public albums*Select albums to download.*Hit Download.

All the downloaded images are stored in My Pictures. We feel this is one of the easiest way to download Picasa web Album without installing Picasa. Picasa Downloader is a very effective and useful tool.

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YouTube MP3 Downloader is a windows application to download YouTube MP3 songs and music videos. YouTube MP3 Downloader supports HD/HQ YouTube Video downloading, and also supports most of popular media formats like MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV, WAV, AMR, AVI, MPG, 3GP, MOV etc.

Features:

• Download YouTube MP3
  Download Millions of YouTube MP3 Songs from YouTube by YouTube MP3 Downloader for your iPod, MP3 Player or Cellphone.
• Download YouTube HD/HQ MP4 Video
  YouTube MP3 Downloader will help you to download High Definition/High Quality YouTube Video.
• Save YouTube Video As Most of Popular Formats
  YouTube MP3 Downloader supports most of popular formats like MP3, MP4, WMV, WMA, MOV, MPG, FLV, AVI, WAV, AC3, AMR etc.

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Linux: Application launcher GNOME Do has a ‘theme’ called Docky that we rated as an intelligent Linux interface. Now Docky is available as its own application, bringing many of its best features over and setting the stage for many more.

Docky was a clever app for GNOME Do to integrate with, offering application launching and an OS X-like Dock from a single screen space. It was, however, not quite a perfect pairing, as it tied together a lot of of processes, and was somewhat inconsistent and slightly buggy in how it operated. As its own separate software project and app, it’s free to develop, and even in the first alpha of 2.0 available, it’s worth checking out as a desktop power tool.

The ‘docklets’ and plug-ins that were present in GNOME Do, like battery, CPU, and weather monitors are still around, while smart items like a Gmail notifier and recent documents icon have been added. The interface is also more functional, allowing for dragging-and-dropping files from the desktop to dock folder icons, and opening files in certain apps by dragging files on them. You can run multiple docks, change each of their themes, icon sizes, and zoom levels, and run Docky in ‘Panel Mode,’ taking up the whole of a window edge.

Docky is a free download for Linux systems only; an easily installed Ubuntu repository and source code are available at the link.

BlackBerry Master Control Program (MCP) is a power tool for management of BlackBerry devices designed for basic, moderate and advanced users. With MCP you can easily load/save/erase any module you want, take screenshots of your device, turn the radio on or off, synchronize the time on your device to your PC, reset to factory settings (remove IT policies), perform a handheld wipe, factory reset, load, save and erase modules and many more features.

The Operating System Management page allows you to completely manage and optimize any OS you want to install on your device.

Features of MCP

* Manages multiple USB Devices.
* Performs ALL Java Loader commands and ALL Java Loader options – 100% – graphically.
* Upgrade/Downgrade to any device OS that is installed on your computer – without having to uninstall other OS’s.
* Relocates OS files to the same locations as CrackMem, so you can switch between MCP or CrackMem at will.
* MCP is available via Windows Control Panel after installation.
* Easy to access shortcuts to the most common BlackBerry tools.
* Available in PortableApps and Stand Alone version.
* Backup & Restore 3rd Party Apps
* Create ALX/JAD files

This tool is also available in portable version, so that carry in USB drives.

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Screenr, which is probably the best web-based screencasting application, can now be used for recording screencast videos in Linux as well in addition to Windows and Mac machines.

With Screenr, you can create HD-quality screencasts of up to 5 minutes in length using any web browser that has the Java plug-in installed. The published screencast is available as a Flash video (for embedding in web pages) and as a Quicktime (MP4) movie so anyone catch watch your screencasts on mobile devices like the iPhone.

The only downside is that everything you record with Screenr becomes available in public by default and there’s no option to create private or password-protected screencast videos.

If you enjoyed Screenr, you may also want to check this detailed comparison of all the other online screencasting tools.

Gladinet is an excellent way to plug your Windows desktop in to a number of cloud storage providers – like Amazon, SkyDrive, Google Docs – as well as your own FTP and WebDAV servers. They also recently added a nifty cloud-to-cloud backup feature.

In the update to version 1.4, Gladinet has built in the ability to selectively back up specific file types to your remote storage. Want to make sure you have a current set of your local files at the ready on Google Docs? Maybe zip all your photos up to LiveDrive? It’s a breeze in the new version.

From your system tray, just right-click the Gladinet icon and choose backup my files online, and in addition to folder and Google Docs backups you can now select Documents/Photos/Videos/Music as options.

Pick one, and Gladinet quickly scours your hard drive for the appropriate files. You can exclude anything you want – for example, stray .GIF images that might be selected by default.

The new task options make backing up your most essential personal files a breeze.

If you’re a believer in the cloud, Gladinet is a must-have free download and the pro version is well worth a look at $39.99 (home) or $59.99 (commercial).

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