WriteThat.name and MacX Video Converter [Freebies]

Couple cool freebies for you today. First is WriteThatName to clean up your Contacts and the other is MacX which will help you get all those videos stored on your Mac onto your iOS devices.

Top line: WriteThatName cleans up your Contacts, updates with the right info, and keeps it updated. The deal here gives you 3 months of their Premium service. If you’re Contacts are as much of a disaster as mine are, you could do worse than to try this out (back up your contacts first to be safe).

I’ll tell you more about WriteThatName and MacX after the jump…


Here are the top features of WriteThatName:

• Address Book Updates: It analyzes the contents of your email messages and detects new contacts or updated details.
• Multi-Account: WriteThat.name can manage and aggregate several email accounts to update all of your contacts.
• CRM Synchronization: The contacts of your CRM (HighRise) stay up-to-date thanks to WriteThat.name.
• Dashboard: As soon as you sign up, you have a dashboard and a personal space to manage all your options.
• Mobile Synchronization: All the changes made to your address book are of course available on your mobile.

Cool stuff. Again, back up your Contacts, try it, and the worst you could come out with is a better managed Contacts lists. And if completely goes sideways you have your backup to revert to. Do be like me with 2,000+ contacts that I have cull out before I could even try this (no reason to have it go through contacts I don’t even want to keep!), stop now and clean house.

Now for MacX. This is one I tried last night. It’s pretty simple. Pick a video you want to have available through iTunes for your iOS devices to use—including pulling YouTube videos down—tell it which device you want it optimized for, and start it off. Simple as that. In my test last night I started a YouTube video and it looked like it would take about 1:1 (length of video to time to convert) to be done. Which is pretty standard. Keep that in mind if you have ripped one of your DVDs and then want to get it on your iPad in the 5 minutes you have before you leave—it’s just not going to happen.

It’s a cool freebie that I think everyone should have in their toolkit. You should always be able to rip your DVDs to a file for backup and then be able to have them on your iOS devices to enjoy. Grab it now while it’s still around!